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6th Gryffindor Note: [Voice] / [Action]

[Locked to DA Folks]
I need to see you. I have something to discuss with each of you.

[Locked to Harry]
[She sounds a bit nervous here.] Harry, it didn't work. I've tried everything I can think of, but the map's not coming along yet. But, Harry... Sirius' mirror... did it come with you to Luceti? Do you think it might be possible to charm one here? With your Mum out there, I think it might be a good idea to find a way to contact her or for her to contact us easily. I could make another paper for her, one that's charmed with three others, another for you, me, and Ron, just in case she needs to contact you.

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I'm very glad the tutoring sessions seem to be working out for everyone. I hope all of the New Feathers are settling in well. If any of you, New or Old Feathers, need anything at all, information or someone to study with, I'd be happy to do what I can.

[She's out on the porch reading if anyone wants to interrupt]

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[She blinks, confused for a moment, then her eyes widen a little and she shakes her head.]

Oh, no. I mean... ready for Moony.

Was that your question or did you have another one?

Oh...oh. [She gets it now.] Is that coming up shortly?

Another one, actually. I was wondering if you could teach me how to send a Patronus messenger. I don't know why I didn't think of it before.

About two weeks away, but it's not exactly something we can put off dealing with. Pretty much the first thing we had to start planning for when we got here.

[She blinks. Wow. Hermione asking her to teach her something.]

I probably could, yeah. It's a bit tricky but it's really useful, since you can't fake or dupe a Patronus, and they can't be killed or diverted off course.

Remus could help, too, maybe. He's given me a few pointers before. And he's really good at explaining things... But you know that already, don't you?

I wonder if this place has potions ingredients... [You've gotten her wheels turning, thanks.]

He is the expert on Patronuses, isn't he? Maybe you both could, but I think it would be really useful for me to know. I've been trying to learn but... conjuring a normal Patronus is difficult for me, so the messenger is harder, and here it's harder still. [She just effectively admitted that there's something she can't do. This is a Big. Deal.]

Even if there were, the only person here who knows how to make the Wolfsbane potion is Snape.

[Yeah, clearly she's thought about that already, too.

She looks at Hermione, eyebrows raised, but her expression softens a little.]

It's all right to not be good at everything. Doesn't make you less of a person. Or any less clever.

But we can certainly give it a shot. Remus loves to teach; he'll be happy to help with anything.

But it might be in one of my books and if it turns up, I'd like to be able to try it. I'm certain I can get it right.

[You know Hermione. She'll stop at nothing.]

I'd really appreciate it. I think it could be really important to know, whenever you two would like, preferably after the latest school project is over so I don't have to carry the egg around.

[She's pointedly ignoring the second part there...]

If you could... I mean, we're not even sure what's going to happen to him, here. We won't know until November 2nd.

Actually, d'you suppose it'd be all right if I dropped by that night? Maybe kip on the sofa. It'd be better if I was out of the flat. With other people.

[Just in case Remus breaks out of the back bedroom, wanting to tear her to pieces, is what she doesn't say. But her worry is much more for him than for herself.]

Oh, yes, I heard about that little egg thing. Gives you something to do, anyway, right? Clever, that, having a school and all. Maybe Remus could help out with it...

I'll do my best to find anything that could help.

[And she offers a very understanding look. It can't be easy being around a werewolf all the time, especially in a place like this where who knows what could happen.] You know we understand, Tonks. No one will mind if you want to stay.

[And a glance is spared at the egg again.]

It's a nice project. I'm glad we have something to do when the Malnosso aren't making fools of us. I'm sure Raine, one of the teachers, would like Professor Lupin. She's very kind. She's the one who told me everything I know about Luceti.

[And that last part makes it kind of obvious that she knows more than she's been letting on about the place.]

Thanks. It's a relief to have friends here, at least. Friends who know. It's a lot to deal with, otherwise.

[It's a big admission. She couldn't say it to Remus; he already feels too keenly what a burden he is on her, and it would bring up old arguments and old hurts and Tonks knows what she's getting into. She offers Hermione a smile.]

We'll have to introduce them soon, then. Raine must be truly brilliant.

[Tonks tilts her head to one side.]

If there's anything you haven't said yet, about Luceti, that we should know...

[She understands, but she's not going to comment on it. They've been down that road, more Hermione than Tonks, considering what happened with Lupin in Grimmauld place, but hey. It's still the same thing, right?]

I'll be sure to drag Raine out to the library sometime. I'm sure she won't mind.

[She hesitates for a moment and then stands.] There's a lot about Luceti that I know... a lot that it's not safe to say over the journals.

[This is an invitation to follow her to her room if you're curious, Tonks. She won't discuss it in the open.]

[You bet Tonks is going to follow her. If there's anything to know about this place, she needs to know it. She may not be as focused as Hermione, but she is thorough.]

What haven't you told me?

A lot, actually, and not because I don't trust you! [She picks up the egg basket, journal, book, and small handbag and heads through the house into her room, where she sets the egg basket on her nightstand and then opens her bag. You're welcome to ask about this next bit, Tonks, as you've never seen this thing before. Reaching in, her arm disappears up to her shoulder before she pulls it back out. In her hand is a notebook that's way too big for the tiny little handbag.

[Once she's got this, she settles down on her bed and offers the other side or a chair to Tonks as she rifles through the pages.]

There's a lot that we've found out that we can't let the Malnosso know we know. I don't think it would go very well for us if they found out.

[She's now muttering to herself, turning down the corners of specific pages as she decides what to start on.] Malnosso, Third Party, barriers, Shifting, kidnapping, magic, John, Jacob, and ANI.

Do you have specific questions or things in mind before I start?

[Oh, she has plenty of questions, all right, but she's distracted by that handbag.]

Where did you get that?

[She blinks and looks at Hermione.]

Oh, the kidnappings. What do you know about those?

[And that makes Hermione beam smartly as she shows off the handbag.] It was a normal handbag I bought in a Muggle store until I placed an Undetectable Extension Charm on it. Apparently, as I've been carrying it around all the time at home, it was brought here and I'm rather glad of that.

[Her smile fades as she turns back to her notes.] From what I can tell so far, there are two types of kidnappings. Mostly, the term refers to when people like you and me are taken from our homes and brought here to Luceti, but it can also mean the times when the Malnosso take people from Luceti. It appears they experiment on their kidnapped persons in much the same way as the cyclical experiments, but these are much more confined.

[Tonks has to shake her head ruefully.]

Harry's lucky to have you, that's for sure.

Now she frowns a little.]

Is there any way to predict when they'll take someone for these experiments? Or for how long? I heard they sometimes hurt people?

[That earns a slight blush and a murmur of thanks.]

Not that I can tell so far, but I'm trying to keep an eye on any sort of pattern. It's just hard to monitor with so many people around. The time seems to vary. I believe there's a way to reverse some of the effects, but I haven't been around long enough to have this theory tested. I do know there's a way to reverse some of the effects of dying in this world, and I have reason to believe the two are linked, but I can't explain that without starting at the very beginning with the Malnosso.

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[Her frown deepens; she doesn't like the sound of that, even knowing that death isn't permanent here. These Malnosso, hurting her friends? And nothing she can do about it?]

Surely someone's working on trying to fight this? Or get us out of here... What are the Malnosso, then?

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Several of us are, by my count. I am, even if no one else is. It's just very difficult considering we don't even know where we are.

[She reaches up and rubs her forehead briefly.]

We know we're in Luceti, but we don't know where Luceti is. We're kept here by a magical barrier set in place by the Malnosso. From what Raine said, it's as much to keep us in as to keep others out, namely the until recently unknown Third Party. As it sounds like they inhabit an area outside our barrier, I'm led to believe that Luceti itself is a much larger place than it seems to be. No one's sure just how big, though.

[She pauses a moment.]

The Malnosso are the ones who are said to hold control over the kidnappings. From what I can tell, and this part should never be mentioned on the journals, it's the third Party who remain in control of that. I've never actually seen the Malnosso, but they are people... just like we are. Exactly like us. The speculation is that they were once kidnapped as we were, which leads to the question of what exactly does the kidnapping if it isn't the Malnosso. That isn't easily answered, but it's either the Third Party or Luceti itself.

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What is this Third Party? And if the Malnosso aren't responsible for bringing us here, why are they doing all these awful experiments on us?

I'm not entirely sure what they are, but they seem to be opposed to the Malnosso and the Malnosso to them. The Malnosso seem to think we're good test subjects or something of the sort. I'm not certain as I've never actually seen them, but that's what I can gather from my sources.

The barrier around what we can see of Luceti is Malnosso technology, made to keep us in and the Third Party out. Almost two months ago, the barrier was broached, and a battle occurred between our people and the Third Party. I wasn't here for that, so all I have to go on is what I've been told, but as the Third Party is outside the barrier once more, I'm led to believe whoever was here at the time managed to stop them.

[She pauses for a moment to be sure Tonks got all that.]
Now, there are a few people who once were either Malnosso or Third Party members and are now neutral or fighting one side or the other. I have yet to actually meet either of the two who are still alive, so, again, all I have are secondhand reports.

[She has to take a few moments to digest all this, biting her lip and fiddling with her wedding band as she thinks.]

So we've been pulled from our world, and our war, into... a different world, and someone else's war. One side is doing horrific experiments on us at random, and the other side is so bad that side has to enlist our help to keep them at bay.

And we're caught in the middle, with no way to get out.

Lovely.

[She nods sympathetically.] There are several of us who are working to find a way out. I don't think we're trapped forever, simply detained for a time.

[That's as good a segue into another topic as any.]
There are people who have helped us, or so I'm told. John, Jacob, and ANI. They can contact us at their own leisure and make their transmissions invisible to the Malnosso. I believe it's mostly their information that we have been hiding from the Malnosso, but I have yet to confirm that.

John and ANI are the only ones who are capable of contact now, which... brings me to a more unpleasant topic. [And she winces at this, but it's something Tonks should be aware of anyway.]

[That doesn't sound good. What could be more unpleasant than what Hermione has already told her?]

What would that be?

[Best to be blunt.]

I don't know how much you've heard about the battle a month or so ago, but it sounds like it started because of Jacob's death. The Third Party got their hands on him - we think he was handed over so John could work against them - and they took him to the desert, where they... [This is so difficult for her to wrap her mind around and she hates what they did.]

It's possible to die permanently here, if you're taken to a certain place in the desert and killed in ritualistic sacrifice. That's why we've got to be careful here. There's no telling what impact that will have on his homeland, but he's... he's not going back.

R - really? He's dead for good, even in his own world? I...

[She has to take a moment, to take that in. Her mind skirts around the people she knows who are here, the people she cares about. It completely avoids thinking of Remus, and briefly flashes to Moody, the most recent death back home before she'd showed up here.]

Wow.

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[action] - this is going to be long XD

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[action] - she basically got told EVERYTHING on her first or second day here XD

[action] - wouldn't want it any other way!

[action] - wouldn't be Hermione otherwise, huh XD

[action] - and we'd all be lost without her!

[action] - XD she does try to help~! - fff I keep leaving out details sob

[action] - thank merlin for comment editing~

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