He hadn’t the foggiest how she had found him – how she had ended up in the forest instead of the stands at all – but how could he question her now, when she was as deft as any magical-catastrophe-Ministry-grunt and far more generous a nurse?
Being on the ground felt a great deal steadier than in the tree or whatever tossing-turning-tumult he had been caught up before, but the toothy grin he gave her was maybe proof of the bloodrush about which she was worried.
So he kept still. But on the matter of his poor body, well – “I suspect I may have gotten old along the way without noticing,” Ewart confessed a little mournfully. Which was not to say he had ever been particularly athletic, and his mind (usually, when not so addled by rogue vanishments) was surely as sharp as ever, but he felt about twenty-three inside. Hopefully Ailsa had not noticed this decline.
Being on the ground felt a great deal steadier than in the tree or whatever tossing-turning-tumult he had been caught up before, but the toothy grin he gave her was maybe proof of the bloodrush about which she was worried.
So he kept still. But on the matter of his poor body, well – “I suspect I may have gotten old along the way without noticing,” Ewart confessed a little mournfully. Which was not to say he had ever been particularly athletic, and his mind (usually, when not so addled by rogue vanishments) was surely as sharp as ever, but he felt about twenty-three inside. Hopefully Ailsa had not noticed this decline.
