Hermione walked the woods scanning the ground for ingredients. She had asked Nevil about a couple of plants that she would need for her potion and he offered to take her to spots in the forest to gather the ones in season. She was more than thankful for his help. She searched the ground of cleverly populated spots under Nevils's advice where she would find the root she needed. It had already been 20 minutes but she was having trouble locating it or maybe she had seen it and didn't notice. It was hard to find a certain green patch in a green and brown forest. She kind of wished she let Nevil come with her instead of sending him off to locate his own plants. She decided to get down on her hands and knees. Maybe this would help after crawling around for a good while she found what she had been looking for or at least she was pretty sure she did.

She started digging into the ground being careful not to accidentally stab and ruin any root she found. 15 minutes later she had collected a pretty good bundle of the roots and herbs she needed. Making sure she had everything packed away she moved her body so she was sitting on her but instead of her knees and began stretching her legs. They were numb and very close to an outbreak of pins and needles. After stretching she decides to lay back and relax for just a second. Looking up at the tall trees with light breaking through she remembered her family camping trips when she was younger. They hadn't gone camping in a long time as she got older her parents thought it would be more fun for her actually to travel rather than camp in the woods with them. and it was great she loved it when they traveled and visited different sites but she did miss the simple small trips with just the three of them with no schedules just the three of them enjoying themselves.

She heard some shuffling and jolted up getting a head rush. When she saw it was Blaise she let her guard down not hiding the fact that she was a little dizzy from getting up too fast.

"Well, I almost thought I found a woods nymph." He grinned at her as she stood grabbing her bag.

" oh are you disappointed?" she teased

"not at all." He moved closer to her draping an arm around her waist. " in fact, I'm very happy. Getting to see you have started to feel rarer than seeing a Nymp." It wasn't really true she had seen him in the castle in classrooms, the great hall but they hadn't been able to interact or get to be together in a while. Blaise stood so close now that their chest was almost touching and Hermione breath hitched a bit. She hadn't really had any intimacy since. Hermione stopped her thoughts, Malfoy, that's right the last time she got off was because of him.

she felt her face burn from the embarrassment how could she get off with that vile ferret? Another thought entered her mind the glove, was what he said about it true?

"Blaise does the wizarding world have well ummm…" Wow, this was harder to get out than she thought it would. It's not like they didn't have exciting sex but they never used toys. Blaise seemed to like more of the thrill of the thought of getting caught but not really. He was always very careful about making sure they would never actually be found while still making it feel like they could. He knew she would be modified if anyone found her in such a position. There had been many times when he had taken her into an empty classroom during the day or in the library, the perfect bathroom. One time they were safe in an abandoned classroom away from any traffic. But the window overlooked the east courtyard he had fucked her against that window having her watch as students walked and go about their day just below them. at any time one of them could have looked up but none did. After things like that, you would think she could ask about toys but here she was getting all embarrassed. She looked up at Blaise who was watching her and waiting very patiently.

"TOYS" she blurted out Blaise just looked at her for a second which felt like an eternity.

" you know not toys but toys you know for couples. Well I mean not like the couple toys like the color-changing stones that tell you if someone likes you or the string used for the oh what that game you know when they tie each other together with a large thing of string and the couple has to get untangled and undo the knots without breaking it otherwise they might break up." Oh Godric she was rambling this was becoming so much more embarrassing than it needed to be. Blaise still just stood there and stared at her. dame it why was he letting her go on like this? He was usually so good at getting where she was going with her words. Hermione was too flustered to see the gleam of enjoyment in the dark eyes of the wizard in front of her.

" but umm you know bedroom toys that some use for enhancing their" Hermione coughed "Enjoyment together?" why did it come out a question she wanted to scream it should not be this hard to talk about this thing with someone you have done plenty with. " you mean sex toys" Blaise finally said putting her out of her misery. She nodded thankfully that he finally got it. "well it seems in our time apart you've been thinking some really dirty thoughts." Her head snapped up at him.

"no, I just wanted to know if they existed not that I had any interest." She tried to defend herself she didn't want him to think all she ever thought about was studying and sex.

" yes they do, was there a certain toy you were interested in. the school mail gets checked so I would have to order it and have it delivered outside of the school. "

" no, I'm not saying that." She stopped him good to know he was open to them though. " no I was just wondering if they can work on anyone like say if you were in the streets could some random person just use the toy on the person on some stranger, like without their consent?" Blaise seemed to take a minute to think.

" well yes and no. you see the toys only work on and with people who are sexually interested in each other. It wouldn't work if someone wasn't aware of the other person or didn't have any desire to have sex with them. the witch who is rumored to have invented the first couple magic toys in the wizarding world was a countess who was forced to marry a Duke from a very rich family but there was a 16-year age gap. They were married when he was only three. now many noble families made sure their daughters would stay pure for marriage and would gift them a bracelet that would well block access and stop any man from touching them in ways that only a husband should. These bracelets could only be removed by the husband after the father passed over the magic scroll that acted as a seal. Only then would the women be allowed to have sex. And well she wasn't going to sleep with him nor did she want to go her youth never having any of the exciting romance that others did. So they say she enchanted different clothes and accessories so that when she or her lovers wore them they could be intimate with each other. But she didn't want just anyone to be able to do such things to her if they somehow got their hands on them so she made it so only those who wanted each other could use them. mmm, now that I think of it I think she died a virgin since after the boy grew up they just weren't interested in each other but couldn't get divorced."

Blaise finished his short history on wizarding world sex toys. Hermione wasn't sure what to think it was not like it wasn't new to learn that women were seen as objects in the past being controlled and traded as the family saw fit. But with how magic added to the restrictions was hard to swallow. Not that she wasn't aware that magic could and have been used for horrible things but that was more dark magic this sounded like it was a common practice for a time she kind of wanted to ask how long ago this was but she knew it would just anger her. but hey at least she got her answer, and fuck.

She really thought she had gotten over her attraction to the blond years ago.