hermionenet / seelie locked

[brainiest]

HERMIONENET / COMPASSES

To anyone that owns a device that can read this notice:

Please return your device to me for additional protection and charms. This won't come with any charge, but it is something that needs to be done. It will make it so that no one but you can use your device and, should it be stolen, it will turn into a harmless little lump of fool's gold, with a promise of a replacement from me if you need it.

If you can't come to me personally for any reason then, please, let me know. I'll do my best to either visit you or send you information on the runes for you to perform yourself. Thank you.

SEELIE LOCKED

[ The video feed shows a harried, tired looking Hermione sitting behind her desk, head held high as she smiles, leaning forward. ]

As always, if anyone is in need of potions or charmed, protective cloaks for the upcoming battles, let me know. Artefacta will be happy to provide them, and we can enchant items you already own as well. Just let me know through your lockets and I'll arrange it all.

Comments

[winterwork]

And you believe the monarchs? They're the ones who shoved us into this war in the first place and told us to fight each other for no solid reason! How do you know they're not just telling you what they want you to believe? They want you here fighting for them, of course they're gonna try to make you think there's no way home. Because if there's no where to go, then what else can you do but choose to stay here exactly where they want you?

[Denial was something Jack could be quite an expert one, having dabbled with that fight for three hundred years, always wanting to believe he was meant for something better, denying the hurt he felt from being invisible for so long despite never knowing what it meant to be seen, to be loved. And he'd first gained that here, meeting his friends that he'd grown to cherish, friends he wanted to believe didn't just end up in a world without hope.

Seeing Hermione pull out the necklace, his lip quivers, having seen an empty shard like that once before, the one that Hiccup had left behind. Thrown off into silence, he jolts when she touches his hand but doesn't pull away, simply gazing down at her fingers, trying to make sense of it all.]

There's people back home in our worlds without shards at all. Not having them doesn't guarantee you're just thrown off into some void of empty space or whatever. There's no proof. So I'm — I'm sorry but I'm not gonna believe that's the only possible truth.

[brainiest]

I believe in what I've seen and what evidence is in front of me! Our shards tie us to our world and to this one, that's why we can use Shard magic here, and without our shards we can't go home. That's how it is! It's not a matter of believing the monarchs when I know I can't trust them completely - it's a matter of seeing what has happened and understanding that one plus two equals three!

[ Hermione shakes her head, huffing out a noise as she turns her gaze away. She feels a tight, anxious feeling in her chest, as if she's going to end up suffocating somehow, and the way that it bears down on her is something she can't avoid. She's a Marchioness and she's been here long enough to understand the way she has to survive and handle this - and that means accepting the bad things with the good.

When she stops feeling bad, John had said, that's when she become a monster. She won't become a monster.

Her hand grips Ron's shard and she tilts her head, looking at Jack sadly before she breathes out. ]

I'm sorry. I'm only telling you what I know, Jack, what I've learned from - everyone, really. I wish I had more answers for you.