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[Wednesday morning is a particularly warm day in Mayfield. With the sun in the sky, it seems like the perfect time to go for a swim down at the rec center. Luckily for you, although the pool has been closed off the past two days, it seems as though this morning, someone has left the door unlocked

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[Hermione doesn't often going swimming, but it just so happened the last few days she had wanted to. What she arrives to makes her heart flip and turn cold at the sight. She's seen dead bodies now, loads of them. More than she wished she had to and her heart clenched at it.]

[She took a breath, digging for her wand and trying to settle the shakiness. Because, despite it all, the war in her own world had lingering effects. Pointing it she whispered the familiar enchantment.]

Wingardium Leviosa.

[Watching the body as she levitated it to the edge of the pool, Hermione thought of several words. Bury your dead with dignity, whispered vice-like in her mind. This wasn't a normal Mayfield death by the stench of it. She shook her head before making her way to the place where she'd levitated the body.

Feeling her heart beat several times faster, she moved next to it to see what all was wrong.

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[The man is clearly dead. No one with that amount of their face and skull missing could possibly be alive. One of his eyes is completely gone, leaving nothing but a gory socket, and there's blood all over his too-large uniform.

He stirs.]

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[Her stomach flipped and she felt the sudden urge to vomit at the sight. It took all she could not to. Eyes growing wide as saucers, Hermione immediately stood, took a step back and raised the wand. Voice cracking as she whispers just loud enough to hear, if it could be heard in the first place.]

How? This isn't possible.

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[A low, mocking laugh, tinged with pain.]

You must be new in town if you're still questioning what's possible.

[inheritedtales]

[Her fingers clenched around the wand tightly.]

...Not quite. I know of inferi, reanimated dead bodies, but you're hardly... [She takes a breath, but he's right, she shouldn't be this surprised. Not here.]

What happened to you? Is there anyway I can help?

[Although she's talking and trying to keep herself together, Hermione's still the bit away, hand holding tightly to her wand.]

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Close enough.

[A snort.] What the hell do you think happened, stupid girl? Can you help the dead? Just leave me alone.

[inheritedtales]

[She opened her mouth to say something angrily, but caught herself.] I have a mild guess.

You're not dead. You should be, but you aren't and this is an awful way to continue on. Are you trying to tell me no one can help you?

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If you're just going to go on stating the obvious, stupid girl, do it in your head. You won't be able to reach anyone who can help me. Haven't you ever heard of letting a man die in peace?

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Of course I have, but you're not going to die, are you? If you were you would have done so by now--are they punishing you?

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Being stuck here listening to you and every other idiot who's come in here run your mouths? Yeah, sounds like a damn harsh punishment to me.

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That's barbaric.

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Welcome to Mayfield.

Stupid girl.

[inheritedtales]

Don't you dare call me stupid when you know nothing about me. Just because it's Mayfield doesn't mean I have to accept it.

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I've learned all I need to about you in this conversation. The heroic type, my favorite, always having to inflict your particular brand of idiocy onto others.

Good luck holding onto that idea, stupid girl.

[inheritedtales]

You're wrong. It's not heroics to do what needs to be done when it's the right thing to do. You've agreed this place is barbaric, that gives me all the more reason to think something needs to be done.

...Call me stupid all you want, but I refuse to give up. Giving up is just letting them win.

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What makes you think they haven't already won? Or is that too much thought for your tiny brain to handle?

Try all you want, stupid girl, but you won't get anywhere. Too bad I won't be around to laugh when you spectacularly fail.