"It was hell, JP." Pure torture. At least they'd found food quickly, but the rest of it was god awful. "We wouldn't have survived it if I hadn't gone through the program. Probably wouldn't have been sent there, either." Less than three years as a full fledged auror and Fallon was already considering a career change. A department where an evil mastermind wouldn't feel the need to whiz her away to the fucking arctic.
She wiggled her toes beneath the blanket, the missing ones an obvious sensation. Supposedly, the nerves would die off in time and she wouldn't feel the ache as much. Truthfully, Fallon was grateful just to have kept her hands and feet. A few missing toes wasn't the end of the world.
"I kept asking for more until they brought in a massive stack," she explained. "I managed to transfigure our clothes into heavier layers, and we used a polar bear's pelt as a rug." The unspoken, 'we killed a polar bear', hung in the air at that. "It wasn't enough, though. No matter what I did we were still cold...so, yes, blanket cocoon. Everyone will want one come winter."
She wiggled her toes beneath the blanket, the missing ones an obvious sensation. Supposedly, the nerves would die off in time and she wouldn't feel the ache as much. Truthfully, Fallon was grateful just to have kept her hands and feet. A few missing toes wasn't the end of the world.
"I kept asking for more until they brought in a massive stack," she explained. "I managed to transfigure our clothes into heavier layers, and we used a polar bear's pelt as a rug." The unspoken, 'we killed a polar bear', hung in the air at that. "It wasn't enough, though. No matter what I did we were still cold...so, yes, blanket cocoon. Everyone will want one come winter."