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Chapter Three: Revealed
Necrosia was the only one sitting in the common room when Hermione came down. Yawning, she said, "You're up early."
"As are you." Necrosia replied.
"I like to stop at the Library before breakfast begins, sometimes. What's your excuse?"
"Couldn't sleep."
"Mind if I ask why?"
"You just did."
"But will you answer."
Necrosia was silent a moment.
"The silence." she said at last.
"What do you mean?" asked Hermione, sitting down in the armchair across from Necrosia, all thoughts of the Library forgotten.
"It woke me. The silence, I mean." Necrosia said after some hesitation. The only human she had ever truly confided in had escaped two years ago. Necrosia grew very sad at this thought, she missed him. He had always been able to make her laugh…
Hermione shivered.
"That's odd. It's quite cold in here, isn't it?" she asked.
'Crud, I did it again.' Necrosia thought, then turned off her Dementor's Aura. It always happened when she thought about it…
Hermione frowned.
"That's really weird, I must have had a cold flash or something." she said. Necrosia sat there silently. Hermione cleared her voice.
"Um, I tried to look up Aschkaean in the World Atlas. I couldn't find it anywhere. Is it UnPlotable?"
Necrosia almost sighed in relief. She hadn't expected the human girl to try and find Aschkaean, but at least she had given her an excuse.
"Yes."
"Oh."
"Good morning, everyone!" said an extremely cheerful voice coming down the stairs, which was followed by a grunt.
"There's no such thing as a good morning."
"Oh cheer up Nokomis!" said the cheerful voice which apparently belonged to Sari.
Nokomis just glared daggers at Sari. Sari looked over at Hermione and Necrosia.
"What do you two think?" she asked, plopping down on the couch, "is there such thing as a good morning or not?"
"I think it depends on the mood you're in when you went to bed." replied Hermione, sounding slightly scholarly. Again, Necrosia remained silent. This time it wasn't because she didn't want to answer, but it was because she didn't know how to answer. She was completely clueless about this life.
"Ooh, look at the time, we better get to breakfast so we aren't late for Potions!" exclaimed Hermione looking down at her watch. The girls agreed and went down to the Great Hall.
Nokomis was the first to go through the foreboding door to the Potions classroom. She was followed by Sari, Hermione, Ron, Harry, and lastly, Necrosia. As when they entered the Great Hall, all the students, Slytherins and Gryffindors alike, turned their heads to stare at the newcomers.
"So our resident celebrities have finally decided to deign us with their presence. How absolutely delightful." said Professor Snape in his usual sarcastic tone. Harry, Ron, and Hermione silently took their seats, knowing it was no use trying to correct the formidable Potions Master. Nokomis looked slightly taken aback at his tone while Sari looked a bit shocked. No one had ever spoken to them like that. Necrosia tried to silently make her way to the seat behind Ron. He was tall so she figured her chances of being seen were infinitely less.
She was far from right.
Sari and Nokomis, having had proper princess training and everything, knew that the best course of action during a first meeting was to simply smile, nod, and remain silent while taking their seats in front of Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
Necrosia didn't have this knowledge.
Nor did she realize that when Dumbledore had said "uniform" he meant the school uniform. Not her Dementor one.
"What's this? Does the precious princess not like being spoken to by a mere subject?" said Professor Snape, rounding on Necrosia. Necrosia just looked up at him from under her hood.
"Also, why aren't you wearing your uniform, your highness? Or are you too good for that?" he added. By saying 'your highness' he already had her annoyed, but the man understood how powerful the use of languages really was and knew how to twist the most casual sentence into a deep insult. As a Necromancer, Necrosia knew as well that language was a powerful weapon, because it was her voice that controlled the Dead, so she also knew he was just toying with her to get a reaction.
Although she wasn't supposed to listen to her Necromantic side at Hogwarts.
"My name is Necrosia, Professor, not 'your highness'." she replied in a slightly fake-but-sounds-real innocent tone.
But who were the humans to tell a Necromancer what to do?
"Could you please remove your hood then, princess? The Byehvimm Potion is one of the most dangerous potions to create. By having your hood up you will not be able to see whether you must jump aside or not." replied Snape, his eyes flickering for but a second to the boy Necrosia was sitting next to. Necrosia made a small noise which sounded suspiciously like a snort.
'Humans. Here a human man insults me and yet is concerned for me at the same time because I'm sitting next to a human boy who has an emotional level of fear that I haven't felt off anyone since leaving Azkaban, and I was surrounded by convicted felons there!' Necrosia thought.
"Something funny princess?" asked Snape with a raised eyebrow and an evil-like look on his face.
"Nothing that would appeal to your particular brand of humour."
"Sir."
"…."
"You shall refer to me as either professor or sir, princess or not. And you will take off that hood or I shall take it off for you."
"How kind of you to do that for me….sir." Necrosia replied, matching him tone for tone. She felt a short surge of irritation directed towards her, then a feeling of calming remembrance. Necrosia narrowed her eyes.
'So he knows,' she thought, 'he knows the most powerful tool of a Necromancer is their voice.'
As she sat there thinking, Professor Snape reached out and pulled back her hood. He wasn't about to let this princess get the better of him. Particularly not this one.
Necrosia blinked a few times, unaccustomed to receiving so much light at once. When she opened her eyes fully, she saw that Snape's face hadn't changed a bit, but she felt his strong surge of complete surprise. She looked around at everyone and a few audible gasps were heard.
That wasn't surprising, though. If the students and teachers thought that Sari's silver hair was strange, or Nokomis' hair, it was old news now. Before, Necrosia had always kept her hood up, so no one had really known what she looked like. All they could see was the bottom part of her face and her hands, which most described were as white as a vampire's. Everyone now saw that she was indeed as white as a vampire. Her hair was even whiter than her skin, as white a unicorn's mane and tail and the two front streaks were silver. And then there were her eyes.
People said Harry's eyes were amazing, being the unnatural bright green that they were, but Necrosia had him beat. It's not every day you see a girl with swirling gold and silver eyes. They seemed to be hypnotizing whoever she stared intently at.
"Well then," remarked Professor Snape, "that's settled then. Today we will be brewing the Byehvimm Potion. As none of you know, this potion consists of extremely dangerous elements that must be watched closely. If you do not make sure that the Phoenix Feather does not go within six inches of the flame or potion prematurely. The effects will be catastrophic. Go get your materials and begin making your attempt. Now!"
There was a sudden rush to get to the front of the room. Sari and Nokomis pulled back Necrosia to the back of the line so they could talk.
"Took you long enough!" exclaimed Nokomis.
"Nokomis!" scolded Sari, "for a princess you have no tact." Nokomis just rolled her eyes.
"You Moon Wolves are so -"
"We Moon Wolves are so what, Night Wolf." demanded Sari, with narrowed eyes.
"You both are acting like humans." interrupted Necrosia, the gold in her swirling eyes out growing the silver.
"Why do your eyes do that though?" asked Nokomis, fascinated by the swirling in Necrosia's eyes. They stared at each other for a moment, Nokomis hypnotized by the swirling, Necrosia mystified that anyone could find her so fascinating.
"Um, I - don't - know, really." she replied at last.
"Are you girls going to get your ingredients or are you going to stand there and discuss politics." said Snape, leaning against his desk with his arms folded against his chest.
"Sorry professor. We'll get started on our potion right away, sir." said Sari immediately. She led her two fellow princesses to the front of the room and they began to work on their potion.
Necrosia was deeply annoyed by the time they all got back to the common room at the end of the day. Every person in the school was feeling curiosity, fascination, wonderment, and fear. Since she could sense all of this, it was beginning to annoy her. Feeling the same emotions going on a virtual roller coaster ride, some people feeling one emotion more strongly and others their particular emotions more strongly, had almost made her sick. At least in Azkaban she only felt the same level of emotions which only changed when the Dementors moved. She started going up the stairs when a voice from the common room got her attention.
"Where're you going, Necrosia?" asked Sari.
"Bed."
"Why? It's still fairly early."
"I'm tired."
"Oh…well…if you want to."
Necrosia merely made a sound that sounded suspiciously like a grunt and went to bed. Sari was still standing at the bottom of the stairs when she heard the door close.
"Let her be, Sari. Today was probably pretty rough for her." said Nokomis showing a rare image of concern for others.
"Alright, but tomorrow I'm helping her whether she likes it or not."
"Whatever, Moon Wolf."
