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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.

[/Locked]
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 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.

[And now she's back to her brisk normal manner. It's as though she wants to get through the rest so she doesn't have to think about how awful that is.]

From what I've heard, the Third Party's goal, or one of them, is to "save" us through ritualistic sacrifice. The Malnosso's barrier technology prevents them from getting to us, but should it fail or should John be captured in the same way as Jacob, our odds will get considerably shorter.

We just have the Shifting to deal with currently, which is the formal term for the Malnosso experiments. It would seem the Third Party is also capable of Shifting, though their reach is completely outside of the barrier.

To give you a better idea of what the Shifting entails, the definition is "a physical, mathematical, mental, or subcultural alteration." The one I arrived in time to experience moved our subconsciousness into the body of another person at random. [And it was awkward to say the least.]

I heard about that. The body swap thing. I don't think I would've been too fussed, though not being able to change might be rather upsetting. [For obvious reasons...]

But I realize I'm probably unique in that regard.

I was just lucky that I knew the person I swapped with. I think it would have been a bit too awkward otherwise.

[She pauses a little and shuffles through some of her notes again.]

That's the only experiment I've been around for and I hear last month involved the battle but it didn't sound as though they had a regular experiment then. Likely, it was because of what happened to Jacob and the disruption the battle caused. But it seems this month has brought everything back to what we can call normal.

[Tonks frowns, still digesting all of this.]

I s'pose we should just hope things stay "normal" going forward.

You've given me a lot to think about.

[She really wishes she had better news.]

You should probably take time off to get used to everything I've told you. I only wish I had something more uplifting to tell you about after all that.

It's all right. It's not all that much worse than what I left. Anyway, thanks for sharing what you know.

I thought you ought to know. It's quite similar to the war, isn't it? [Morbid thought, that, but true.] A lot of it should be kept off the journals, though. We don't want the Malnosso knowing we know too much.

Oh, of course. I completely understand. D'you... d'you mind if I borrow some of your notes? I know Remus would be interested in looking at them.

Of course not. [She willingly hands over the notebook.] You can make a copy of them if you want. New information gets added as soon as I come across it and I'll let you know if I find anything else.

Thanks. I'm sure Remus will want to do that, and maybe add notes of his own as we go along.

[She nods.]

You can always ask me other questions if some of it doesn't make sense or you want clarification. Or if other information makes its appearance.

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