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

[somebadnews]

[ She's lucky he has a vague memory of what she's referring to. He'll still say he got the worst assignments. ]

You kept that next to the coffee?

[reparo]

It doesn't imbue the coffee with anything, you silly man.

[somebadnews]

[ Mhm. He liked the coffee from the train, so he won't turn his nose up too much about how she stored it. ]

At least you were prepared if you ran into anyone from Taravast.

I'd say they were the most gullible, but no one caught on when I was peddling a fish god. There might not be hope for any of them.

[reparo]

You were what?

[somebadnews]

My assignment in Yancai. I never saw any fish god, but I'm pretty sure it was just another cult.

I made up everything I said, and they still bought it.

[reparo]

[She laughs, actually laughs.]

Fishy business, that.

[somebadnews]

It wasn't the worst.

[ Unlike that pun (which he'll let slide, since she's in a good mood). Cults are a weirdly effective way to get your foot in the door, as it turns out. ]

[reparo]

Glowing endorsement from Five Hargreaves right there.

[somebadnews]

Yeah, well. My scale might have gotten a little skewed after a while.