 Constant Vigilance! O_O AWAKE!
This term had been exhausting, more exhausting than she'd ever thought teaching could be.
Planning classes? Fine. Teaching classes? Also fine. Caring for dozens of creatures, most of whom weren't birds? Totally fine, she'd done that before.
But the vines? Worrying for half the term about the state of the creatures in the lake? Not fine. Not even remotely close to being relaxing. She saw now, why the school term had a summer break. It was necessary. Teaching, perhaps especially at Hogwarts, was exhausting. She was exhausted.
The one consolation was that with the destruction of that plant and all the vines, the ecosystem of the lake was on its way back to normal.
She gave brief nods to her colleagues already seated, as she made her way to her own seat next to the charms professor. "Evening, Neva," Mia said with a small smile as she slid into the chair. |