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Hello, this is Hermione Granger - you will hopefully excuse me for not using the video component of these fascinating crystals, but I find it easier to string my thoughts together in writing.

I have been thinking about potions. In the world that I come from, we have a number of them that are capable of doing many things, from healing to sobering up to allowing someone to be someone else for a few hours. They were developed by very fascinating and smart witches and wizards, however it was with local ingredients, shall we say?

I would wish to try and write down the ones I remember by heart, by dint of having brewed them so much. The question is, once remembered, would they be of any use, if the ingredients here are not the same? And more importantly, how would I test them for efficacy if not on myself?

Maybe a better use of time would be to learn to brew the ones that the local witches came up with, but I am not fond of their brand of magic - and there is the matter of cost, of course.

On that note, does anyone want completely useless corsets? Wear them or burn them, at this point I doubt anyone would care, but as tensions towards magic-wielders grow I reckon I should start pretending to be that bloody modiste.

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That would be very appreciated, actually! Thank you [wait for it!!] Lan Sizhui.

[ That would be almost the normal way his peers tend to address him, so it doesn't register as special (yet). 'Sizhui' only does work, too, since he is not going to be impolite enough to ask her age, but he believes she's not younger enough for using only the courtesy name to be inappropriate.

Lady Granger.

Except he'll have to make sure that is the surname, this is a guess right now, before he addresses her so. ]

Of course, let me know when you are free so we can meet for it? I am outside to help with the mending in the citadel, but I will be back in the palace later.

It may be safer to meet outside, somewhere where there are not many eyes on us. I can find you.

I can meet you at the widest canal south of the palace. We can think of a place that has fewer eyes on us from there.

[ Out...side the city? It's cold, and while that doesn't bother Sizhui much, he's not sure she'll be as comfortable, but she can determine things for herself. ]

Wonderful - give me some time to get there, with an excuse to be outside, and I will join you.

[There is no reason to be concerned about whether or not she'll be comfortable; she's been uncomfortable from the moment she arrived in Taravast, and yet is has not stopped her. The clouds have parted and given her an invaluable thing: A Project.

And if in the pursuit of said Project, she ends up doning a woolen skirt, two pairs of socks inside her boots and her trusted cloak (she may have no idea how to sew but she can transfigure cloaks, come on) to stay warm, and go for a walk, well.

Constitutionals - all the ladies need them, you see.

This one has alms for the poor, and the guards know her for a bleeding heart more than they know her for a witch (for now), so she passes and makes it out. Thirty minutes or so after the message was sent, she's at the canal.]

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[ Sizhui makes his way to where the canal's nearest point to the palace is, to make locating each other easier, and when he spots the curly curly hair, whatever the mask may be, he steps towards her and cups his hands in greeting. ]

Have you been well?

[ Things have been... eventful. ]

[She remembers the salutation from before, though they have no distressed and drunken Lan Wangji to find now; she repeats it, hoping that her uncertainty does not show on her face.

Here, just two friends bumping into each other on the street. Nothing sus.]

I have kept alive. [Which is as much as she can do, considering everything else that's been going on. She nods towards the street.] Shall we pretend to take a stroll together then? You can tell me how you've been.

[ The greeting gets her a soft smile, visible with the half-mask, and he nods. ]

I have mostly kept busy, as there is much that people need help with. And we absolutely will stroll together. Just... with somewhere to go.

[ The market... outside the citadel to look for things. That kind of thing. ]

Yes, let's do that. [She will follow him, mostly because he has better spatial awareness in this place than her. Just wait, though, Sizhui; one day we'll leave this place for a new one and then you better watch out.]

I feel like I have not seen you around since...[Your dad got drunk.] the chickens. [A little smile, hopeful.] I hope you kept safe when the Huntress and her monsters came.

Ah... think you. [ Softly, and yes, a bit of a smile. The chickens are certainly memorable. ] I am not as easy to hurt as some. I did my best to help, then, and since, as well. Between some knowledge of healing and being strong enough to physically heft some things that need moving, I thought the best way to make a difference is to be out here.

And yourself? Back then, you said that you could protect me, I hope you didn't have to do enough of that to be exhausted.

[ All reserves of power are finite, after all. ]

[She manages a little smile, though it looks tired from the side.] Me? I've been... you could say I've kept busy. Some of the creatures the Huntress sent through the city were of my world, so there was a lot of dealing with those, and then the tower...

[The flaming tower, with all the fighting - let's not get into that.]

I rode a flying horse, though. [What a way to change the subject, with a smile and all.]

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