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She felt sore.
Her body was aching all over. She was just tired, so tired.
It'd be nice to just go to sleep like this and ignore the outside world but she knew she couldn't. He was still out there. She had to check.
What happened? Had they won? Lost? Or maybe everything was just at a temporary standstill and soon, just like a ticking time bomb, everything would suddenly come to blows and this was just the calm before the storm. Still, she had to make sure.
Ignoring the screaming protests of her muscles, she heaved herself up and slowly began making her way towards the center of the battlefield limping, her left leg slightly dragging along grassy field, leaving a faint trail of blood.
As she approached the clearing, within the forbidden forest, a figure stood about in it's center.
A solemn figure.
The forest was silent, not a sign of life about. It made her hair stand on ends, it just wasn't natural.
Ignoring the dreaded feeling in her gut she called out to the figure.
"Harry?"
The boy slowly turned around as she stared straight into his eyes and felt her stomach drop at what she saw in them.
Despair.
Anger.
Resignation.
Self-loathing.
Tears trickled down his face. Two words came out of his mouth before he completely vanished.
The calm before the storm indeed.