( Abella exhales a sympathetic breath of laughter, and gently nudges Hermione. )
Don't beat yourself up about it. A lot of the people here are good, even if a lot of them don't seem nice, at first. ( Gwenaëlle. ) Being willing to listen and having self-awareness goes a long way.
( But Hermione had wanted to move on, and having shared that aspect of her own experience, Abella is happy to go with it. She sits on one of the desks, leaning back on her hand, head tilted as she thinks.
Sharing everything about her experiences just before being here doesn't seem... well, maybe it would be relevant. The older woman still knocks the thought aside because, frankly, she doesn't want to put that on a kid. )
It was October, 1942. A huge war that consumed many nations just ended, the Second Great War, although the circumstances are... suspicious. There's fears about it not really being over. I grew up thinking there was no magic, and a couple of days before I got here, I found out that was very wrong.
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( Abella exhales a sympathetic breath of laughter, and gently nudges Hermione. )
Don't beat yourself up about it. A lot of the people here are good, even if a lot of them don't seem nice, at first. ( Gwenaëlle. ) Being willing to listen and having self-awareness goes a long way.
( But Hermione had wanted to move on, and having shared that aspect of her own experience, Abella is happy to go with it. She sits on one of the desks, leaning back on her hand, head tilted as she thinks.
Sharing everything about her experiences just before being here doesn't seem...
well, maybe it would be relevant. The older woman still knocks the thought aside because, frankly, she doesn't want to put that on a kid. )
It was October, 1942. A huge war that consumed many nations just ended, the Second Great War, although the circumstances are... suspicious. There's fears about it not really being over. I grew up thinking there was no magic, and a couple of days before I got here, I found out that was very wrong.
( That glossed over things. ) How about you?