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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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[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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