video; man's greatest treasure (after the blood rains stop)

[reparo]

[The video isn't accidental this time, and focuses on Hermione - her face rosy-cheeked and smiling, actually smiling.


To the observant eye, one can tell she's in the old, dilapidated house that some people used during the final battle in Hatthevar as a sort of refuge. (It's the Macarena house.)]

Friends - ah, I've been thinking all day what I'd say to us all after a battle as final and difficult and hard as this one. I didn't get to say this to my friends back home, I didn't get the chance to say this to Harry, but...here goes.

Well done. You did your best, and you somehow saved the day. Look at this place. Look at this world! I know the beacons are being repaired, so it's still sometime before we leave but I think we could say we're leaving it better than we found it?

[Like it's hard. She lets out a tiny laugh.]

Also, I think - and I'm not taking any feedback on this - that I've earned myself this.

[The view focuses on the floor, where she is sitting currently, and specifically on a half-empty bottle of wine. Hermione gone wild.]

Comments

un: absterge | voice

[downswing]

...perhaps, earned water also.

voice; 1/2

[reparo]

Yes, of course! You can have anything you want.

voice

[reparo]

...you sent a voice response!

[downswing]

You have earned water.


( Ig........ noring the other part, must gently ferry girl back toward herself. )

video.

[cosplayqueen]

Okay so can't help you if that's what I think it is, but dance party? We should have a dance party.

video.

[reparo]

Oh, that's alright. But don't be joining Lan Wanji in worry - yes?

It's wine, not liquid demon blood. [ahahha - oh Hermione. Blood usually is liquid.]

But! A dance party sounds good - sounds grand. Haven't had a proper dance party since...oohhh, I think when I was fifteen?

[cosplayqueen]

Nah, he's way better at that than me. I'll just tell you to hydrate at some point. [And cue screaming in horror.]

NO WHY WOULD YOU LET THAT HAPPEN???? DANCE IS LIFE, HERIMONE! LIFE!

un: ut malum pluvia | audio

[somebadnews]

[ Five is still coming to terms with something he thought was impossible. Killing Matthias had ripple effects that went beyond what he hoped, and they also managed to contain Anurr. It's the first time he hasn't thought they were a plague on the world bringing about the next inevitable apocalypse. ]

Imagine that. [ He has difficult choices ahead, and the 'what now' feeling persists, but he's unmistakably happy to see her alive and well. (Part of him doesn't trust it, but he's trying.) ]

I'll have to admit that went better than I expected.

audio

[reparo]

Is that my favourite little pessimist?

[somebadnews]

[ He'll give her one pass, for the celebration of it all. ...And yes, he may have also been drinking before he got her message. ]

I must have grown at least a couple of inches in three years.

video; un: hopscotch

[clavesregni]

Would you like help finishing that?

video;

[reparo]

[Finally. No judgement, no worries - she grins.]

Caitlyn! Yes, come join me.

[clavesregni]

[Caitlyn arrives promptly at the old house and starts looking around and gently knocking on doors, searching through the building for her friend.]

Hermione?

un: qishan | voice

[silverneedles]

More than earned it. I will leave you a hangover cure for the morning.

voice

[reparo]

I hope to learn to brew as many useful potions as you do, Wen Qing. You've taught me so much...

[silverneedles]

You know potion just as well as I do. I've learned a lot from you, and the books you kept acquiring.

@taken for granite

[rumorate]

[Allison smirks as she settles in with her own bottle.]

I think we've all earned a little bit of that.

[reparo]

I'll drink to you, being incredibly impressive and steadfast this whole time.

[bravelyrunsaway]

Look at you, love, drinking to a job well done!

[reparo]

You sound proud of me.

un: yiling laozu

[weifinder]

Oh? Is that the good stuff, Miss Hermione?

( he grins and offers a wink. )

You've done well, you know. For years in a hostile land without the people you knew and held familiar from home, you've been quick and caring and creative with how you handle what this world has thrown at all of us. I couldn't be prouder than I am, having had the chance to know you.

1/2

[reparo]

Wei Wuxian - you're going to make me emotional.

2/3 in fact

[reparo]

Actually, there's no 'going to' about it, I'm emotional. You have been such an incredible ally and friend and -

[reparo]

And I definitely stole the wine. From the train. It was after our conversation and - well, I thought I'd make sure there would be wine that we could open for a very different wedding.

[You know whose, poultry people.]

un: headless ragdoll

[matermali]

I think we could indeed say that it is...better. It is likely as close to contentment as we may have known here, though I can't speak for the others.