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Hello, everyone.

I've never been on a ship like this before. Or any ship, really, so I can't say for certain whether the person in charge is always so elusive when it comes to answering questions. I suspect he thinks it's all in good fun, making you believe one thing but telling you another. I don't think I understand his humor, though.

I'm a little concerned about having made a deal with him - he could be one of the Rotfang conspirators in disguise and is set on prolonging this journey indefinitely until all our worlds are nothing but dust and spores.

Is that why all of you are having such strange dreams?

Either way, I hope there's pudding involved. It makes death seem just a little bit cheerier. I think that's why people eat so much at funerals.

Ghosts must get very jealous during mealtimes.

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[Her mouth ticks upward at the corners: it's kind of her not to ask. But her own excitement starts to stir, struggling against the exhaustion.]

You've a magic school?

Oh yes. Hogwarts is very famous. It's one of the best magic schools in the world, I think. I've just finished my fifth year there.

We went to a place like that, once.

[She remembers it abruptly, if terribly vaguely. It was so long ago. Jefferson was still here.]

It was called Floodholme, though. I'd nearly forgotten.

Were there ghosts there as well?

I don't remember; there might have been. It was a strange place.

[And most of her memories were eclipsed by finding out Merlin's other name.]

My name is Morgana.

I'm Luna.

I know stories about a Morgana living in Camelot, but seeing as how we're hundreds of years apart from each other and stories tend to get mixed up and sometimes completely wrong each time they change hands, I think it's best if we start off at square one and I forget everything I think I know.

Does that work?

[That startles a laugh out of here, which quickly turns into a cough.]

Better than most. The stories - they're never quite right.

No. And I'd much rather hear them from the source.

If you decide you'd like to tell them, one day. Maybe once you're feeling better again.

Maybe once I can think straight again.

[She likes this strange girl. It's nice, to feel some connection to a stranger again.]

I'll consider it.

There's no pressure.

I could tell you more about Hogwarts, if you like. Though I'm not sure if it would be beneficial to your health. You look quite poor.

It can't be more detrimental than being here is, now.

[She grimaces. The Admiral did not mention he was running from the mirror Barge when he offered to bring her back.]

I'd like to hear more. If you don't mind.

All right.

There's lots of things to talk about, with Hogwarts. Its history, or what sorts of people live and teach there, or where it is or what you learn there.

What do you learn there?

Charms, and transfiguration, and potions. History of magic, herbology. Care of magical creatures. And how to take down Death Eaters, although I think that counts as more of an extra-curricular activity than anything planned by my teachers.

[She shakes her head, pleased and wondering and maybe more than a bit jealous.]

You're lucky, to have such a place. I came by my teachers on luck alone.