IM/Can Be Action

[sometimesinsufferable]

[This is Hermione. This is Hermione looking a tad nervous to be asking the question she's about to ask, but she's been weighing on it for some time now. Especially after what happened with the Red Room…and now knowing that everyone's staying at Camp…it wasn't something she wanted to ignore any longer.

Anyone looking at the IM will see that she's sitting out by her usual lake, occasionally casting spells to change colors of stones nearby. It's a mindless incantation that she likes to do when she's focused on something else.]

I'm sure there will be some people that might be offended by this question, but I'm curious. Who do you tend to value more, your friends or your family? [She's being careful not to look at the camera as she changes another stone from blue to pink to green. She'd had a fight with Ron about it, of course, and she still wasn't entirely sure how she felt.] Demigod siblings don't count, by the way. I mean our actual families that we live with outside of camp. I realize that they're two entirely different spectrums, but…let's pretend we had a choice this year. Which of you would return, and which of you would stay to protect them?

[And then suddenly she's giving a light smile as she moves on to her next, and last, point..] Anyway, I think I'll be in the Arena later today if anyone needs me. [And she cuts the connection.]

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[clearasil]

[ It's a wonder Natalie hasn't tried hexing Ron for making her cry in the past but - well, Hermione's more than capable of doing one herself. ] What's changed about your disagreements? If you can, like, even put a finger on that kind of thing.

[sometimesinsufferable]

[And she probably has. Without a doubt.]

Honestly? I think it's just that emotions got in the way. [The most basic form of answer, she thinks. It's hard to dissect but it's pretty close to the truth.]

[clearasil]

Feelings. [ Natalie scoffs. Bane of her existence. And she is the worst at masking her own. ]

[sometimesinsufferable]

Precisely. [See at least Natalie understands and that's what matters here.] And then there was the giant argument during the Apollo dance and it's just been a mess since then.

[clearasil]

I figured, after I came back with you sitting in the dark. [ If memory serves her right. Her own evening had taken a different turn. ]

He better not make a mess on your birthday.

[sometimesinsufferable]

[Ah yes, things that were vaguely discussed and acknowledged by half-sisters. She hadn't forgotten, though she was a little embarrassed to admit she had sort of been self-centered lately.]

He won't. [She sounds confident in that.] I know he won't, no matter how upset with me he is.