[ She can still remember all her conversations with John, how often she had joked with him, calling him dad and watching his laughter, wondering and wondering and being afraid, every single day, that she would lose him. When she had found out he had lost his shard and would be in the Drabwurld for the rest of his immortal life... It had devastated her, but it had also sealed what she had already known to be true in her heart: she didn't want to go home either.

Quiet, Hermione shakes her head. ] I didn't have to. We both knew that it was there, that we cared about each other like that, but... I wanted to. I was a Marchioness and second only to the Queen in the Seelie court. I didn't want the world to forget about what he meant to me if something happened, so I asked Solais to make it official, legally speaking. It was the same for Nico.