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( #003 )

Who: Hermione Granger and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Vanquish
When: 30/11 onwards

I think it might be time for me to ask for a little bit of advice.

I've been here a while, now, and I'm normally very good at not missing people. I used to give people tips on how to feel better about it, and it used to work for me, too, back when I was in the Drabwurld and there was a war to focus on. I would go and look in the library, but I can't imagine there's much of a help section there - dreadful, honestly - so.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to cheer yourself up, I'd be glad to hear it.

(Also: I have potions for all the ships on the fleet, now. If you'd like a set for your Lab, please let me know and I can bring them over!)

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None of them are here for me to talk to, not anymore, but I could talk about them. I'm quite sure the stories I could tell would be unbelievable.

Well, that's your fault for trying to picture something that makes sense. I meant just talking as if they are there. Or writing a letter they won't actually get. [She knows how it sounds, but it helped get some closure with her former husband she'll probably never see again.]

Unbelievable is the norm here, isn't it?

Edited 2016-11-30 21:53 (UTC)

Oh. That makes far more sense, actually. I was rather good at writing letters to people before I came here.

Unbelievable is the norm everywhere I've been, honestly.

Same here. Maybe we should just work on believing things more easily. So, what was that about potions?

I'm starting to think that should be the habit.

Oh, right. I've been brewing some for everyone to have on their ship - blood replenishing, dreamless sleep, some basic healing vials, that sort of thing.

Dreamless sleep? How does that work? [Asking for a friend maybe.]

It acts as a way of blocking dreams and nightmares, just like it sounds. You sleep normally, just without the dreams.

So if you have trouble sleeping normally because of non-dream-related things you'll still have that trouble? And don't we need dreams to help sort things out?

Well, no, it'll help you sleep, too - I meant more just... A sleep without dreams. Sometimes they're necessary, of course, but if you have nightmares it's nice to have a break from them as well.

[ She can attest to that personally. ]

I can understand that. [She hasn't had too much trouble with nightmares of her own but she's seen them affect Winn and she does have the occasional stretch of bad ones. More than anything she just has trouble sleeping alone.]

The Windrose doesn't have a lab anymore but I could take some for the ship if you're offering.

Sometimes you just need a peaceful night. [ She can remember her own fair share, when Dorian took care of her with tea and carefully bribed servants, and lay with her until she fell asleep.

The memories hurt. ] They can go anywhere, really. I'll definitely make sure you have some, and if you need more you can always ask.

Thank you. What's in the potions or is that a silly question with magic involved?

Lavender, some herbs and some standard ingredients - they're like powders to help mix things together - that I picked up from a planet a while ago.

Is that all it is?

With a little bit of magic, yes.

I guess there's not point in asking what that's made of. [She's into science but she's seen plenty of "magic" and while she believes it has a scientific breakdown, but she doesn't know what it is.]

If I knew the science behind it I would let you know, trust me.

[She wasn't really expecting that, but it catches her interest.] So you think of magic as backed by science too?

I think there must be some kind of genetics to it, just like mutants or people with other abilities. Wizards just don't look at that sort of thing.

Well, sure, too busy having all the powers. Are you curious about it?

Of course, but I don't know much about muggle science, really. There's not much I can do alone.

Muggle?

Non-magical people.

With or without negative connotations?

Without, generally speaking. There are other words for that sort of thing.

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