Silence
Hermione Granger needs to feel. She needs to slow, stop, breathe. She's been running for too long. Fighting for too long. Her body isn't tired, but her mind is. Her body doesn't register the pain, though her brain does. Her body goes on, though her heart is breaking. She wants to stop, scream for silence, stillness, but no one would listen. There's a war going on, and soldiers do not stop for rest. Hermione's a soldier. She is part of an unofficial war, part of a struggle for survival and she will keep on fighting. She is a dying breed.