Despite getting used to all of the responsibilities of being a Prefect, Vi felt incredibly stressed about her future. She had no idea what she wanted to do with her life after Hogwarts. She supposed that she'd want to go study at university for a bit but the key questions were where would she be studying and what would she be studying. These thoughts plagued her when she was by herself and trying to focus on her homework. Instead of completing her homework as she would normally, she found herself productively procrastinating by researching future wizarding careers. And sometimes she'd find herself staying up so late that she'd fall asleep in the common room and wake up at three or four in the morning where she would drag herself to bed.

When she slept, she even dreamed about researching career paths and choices that she could make. Perhaps even roleplaying a few conversations and interviews. She couldn't stop thinking about it. The weirdest part was that she More accurately was the fact that she couldn't stop dreaming about it. Weirder yet, when she would continue to actually research, she had this strange feeling as if she was replaying the same scene over and over again in her mind.

Bamboozled by this, she decided to seek help. Now standing in front of the door to Professor Vance's office, she took a deep breath and then knocked.

The first three weeks of classes were just for Laurel to get back into the routine of planning classes, holding the classes and analysing the outcome of them. She tried to keep herself from scrying for the outcome of the classes to predict potential problems, but it was hard not to look. Laurel didn't stress about teaching and she knew she was good at it, but when she had the gift of foresight it seemed silly not to use it to her advantage, so she did to some of her colleagues amusement. When she wasn't planning for Divination classes Laurel spent a large portion of her time down in the dungeons with the snake students and of course on patrols of the castle and grounds.

On this particular afternoon after holding a class on tea leaves with the youngest years she made her way back to her office to change clothes. One of the first year boys had managed to spill out a whole pot of hot tea right down into her lap. Laurel know had a fairly large wet tea stain right down the front of her professor robes. Coming into the corridor that led to her office she was pleasantly surprised to see Olivia Holden there outside her door, waiting to see her. "Hello Olivia! Is everything all right?" going up to unlock her office door Laurel asked "Would you like to come into my office and talk for a bit?"

Vi was about to give up. She assumed that Professor Vance must have been out doing something really, really busy when she heard a voice. Oh? Was that? Olivia turned around to find the blonde woman returning to her office. Oh so she had been out! Thank goodness Vi had caught her coming back to her office. "Professor Vance. Uh.." Was she alright? Well that was a hard question to answer for sure. She was okay.... No, she was fantastic with friendships and relationships and all but... mentally? She was exhausted. The dreams that she had been having had been greatly disturbing her sleep. "Yes, that would be great actually. I'd like to seek some advice."

Advice on careers in Divination and the meaning of the dreams that she had been having.

"I need some advice on some dreams that I have been having..." Dreams that she had lost many a nights sleep over.

Unlocking her office door, Laurel motioned for Olivia to come along as she led the way inside. The lioness had luckily not noticed the gigantic tea stain down the front of her robes yet. Letting a hand brush over the wet stain and feeling how icky it was she said to Olivia as she gestured to the little seating group where a bowl of candy and cookies stood. "Make yourself comfortable Olivia try some candy or a cookie, I'll be back in a minute. I just need to change into a new pair of robes, one of the more clumsy first year boys managed to pour all his tea over me." Very unpleasant, Laurel had warned him it sadly hadn't been of any use which her robe front showed.

Coming back into her office some minutes later in a fresh pair of robes, the colour of purple this time Laurel picked up what Olivia had said she needed advice on as she walked over to the little seating group to grab a candy piece from the bowl. "Tell me more about these dreams that you've been having Olivia. What are the dreams about? Is it the same dream that keeps reoccurring every night? Is it frightening dreams?"

Laurel had spilled something on herself? Vi blinked. She hadn't even noticed that. MERLIN. She was usually pretty perceptive, but, without sleep, she was hopeless. Vi nodded. "Oh dear! No worries. I'll wait right here." And thus she did as she was instructed by helping herself to a cookie and made herself at home. Relaxing in the chairs, she closed her eyes for a moment and then all of a sudden jumped a little. Had she fallen asleep? She glanced down at the cookie in her lap. Best to eat that to try to help her stay awake.

As she finished up her cookie, Professor Vance returned and asked her about the dreams. "Well they're mainly centred around me researching about careers in either Divination or Charms. I thought nothing of it at first... I thought that I was just completely stressed out. But then they started being solely focused on careers until it started to bleed into my personal life more so. And I also started to see them happen. Almost as if they were premonitions. Sometimes the dreams are exactly the same and repeat over and over again. I don't think I've slept in the past two days." She paused. Thank Merlin for lots and lots of make up to try to conceal the dark bags underneath her eyes. Thank Merlin for coffee as well. "I didn't know what it could possibly mean. I'm certain that it's stress related but.... I see things. I saw this precise moment where you ask me about my dreams... I saw this a month ago or so."

What this all meant? She had no clue.

It was a nice feeling to wear something dry and warm that didn't stick to your skin and gave you an icky body feeling. As Laurel slipped down into the comfy chair opposite Olivia she plucked the candy piece into her mouth and started to chew.

Chewing she listened attentively as Olivia described her dreams. It bottomed in career anxiety like with so many others. Poor girl, she was so stressed that she didn't sleep. What did Olivia want to pursue after leaving the safe haven that was Hogwarts? Did she want to work in the charms or divination fields?

Grabbing a cookie from the tray Laurel said warm eyes on Olivia. "Our first priority is to get you a sleep easy draught from Healer Mcmillan. You need to start sleeping again regularly without dreams." Nibbling on the cookie she said thoughtfully "Do you have anyone in your family or extended family that is a seer? It might explain why your are starting to get premonitions now. Does the premonitions scare you?"

A sleep easy draught? Vi bit her lip. She had never taken a draught or something to help her sleep before. "Will it have negative affects on me if I use it a lot....?" she asked, a little concerned, for she didn't wish to be dependent on it. "Negative as if I will become dependent on it...." She didn't know if people could depend on a draft to help them sleep at night. Though then again a sleeping draught would probably help a ton as she had tried exercising a ton to wear herself out but couldn't seem to do it.

As for the seer question, Vi paused before shaking her head. "I'm muggleborn... My brother had a liking for Divination too but he had never mentioned having stressful dreams." Simon had always never seemed frazzled by the future. He always had a plan or it seemed like that. Perhaps secretly he had been just as frazzled as she. "Though its not only my dreams about career... it's also more of a personal nature at times too..." She had recently found herself becoming jealous of a certain individual which seemed idiotic to her but drove her up a wall too. Vi was frustrated at herself. "I have these dreams where I'm also jealous... but I've never been really envious of someone before... It's strange. They feel so real..." And yet, they hadn't happened.

Understanding Olivia's unease about taking something to help her sleep Laurel shook her head and reassured. "Healer Mcmillan will explain it all to you and answer any questions you may have. If you follow her instructions to the letter then I see no reason why you should get dependent on a simple sleeping draught or sustain any negative effects from using it a lot, but I'm not a healer." In her mind it was worth a try though because Olivia like any growing child needed her beauty sleep and the bags under the lionesses eyes told her that one of these days the girl might collapse from pure exhaustion.

Nibbling on her cookie Laurel listened thoughtfully as Olivia described her dreams more in depth to her. They were stressful, of personal nature, about her career and jealousy and envy of another person and they felt real. Reaching out to pat Olivia's arm Laurel said empathically. "All right, let's try and see if we can't together find some significance out of these dreams to ease your stress. Have you tried interpreting your dreams by using Oneiromancy? Do you keep a dream dairy?"

Vi nodded, taking note of the Healer's name. She had half been expecting to hear the last name Reed. Macmillan. That was correct. Kind lady indeed. She had helped Ronan out when he had passed out in Potions class. "Alright, I shall ask her," she said and offered a grin. She would go see her after this meeting. A sleeping draught would certainly help. She took a small bite of the cookie in order to stop herself from yawning.

Had she tried interpreting her dreams through Oneiromancy? She shook her head. "No, I haven't. I have written these dreams down in a journal but I haven't tried to interpret them yet."