Sam Madley wants your opinion on peanut butter.

So

Aubrey going to be okay?

And is someone with Rufus?

Um so I'm helping take care of a baby right now.

I guess we just

pushing on then.

They weren't there.

Permission to skive off for a couple of hours to take a walk with a girl, sir? I'll take my journal of course. See if I can find something baked to bring back to you too.

Doing all right?

All things considered I mean.

I can run off for a bit later tonight.

Last night was a good break from thinking too much. It's easier if you don't I guess. I just hope they're all right. We can fix just about anything else as long as they're physically okay. Everyone else that's come out of the rehabilitation centre has been just fine and Jo's fine now too so I'm sure they're at least being fed and are ok. It looks like the purists are maybe starting to break apart with all that stuff with the Burkes. Maybe we'll have a chance soon. Like maybe things can be almost normal again soon. Maybe. Or maybe I'm just going really delusional after living out here.

Merlin I feel like I haven't laughed like that in ages. If anyone hasn't seen the baby shower invitations I left one out but you probably shouldn't touch it. The glitter is kind of sticky.

If I buggered off for like four hours would you mind loads?

So if you're still maybe interested in seeing a film, I can run off for a few hours.

Could one or both of you do me a really huge favour? If either of you have any healing supplies you could spare I'd be really really really appreciative and I'd owe you for years or something. Just anything you can spare, from bandages to potions to pastes would be brilliant and I promise I'll make it up to you as soon as possible.

I hope you're both doing alright.

I know we've got stuff to do, but Jo says

they've got my family, at the rehab centre. Know it's going to have to wait until we're moved but

Just so you know. She thinks maybe they have Gina too.

It's still so busy around here. S'hard to find anywhere that's quiet for more than a few minutes. It's too crowded. I don't like it. Too hard to get away.

I dunno. We won the battle I guess. But if they actually have hostages

My whole family is muggles. I tried to keep them out of it but if something happens I don't even

And it isn't like we can give into their demands either. I never wanted to put them in the way of this. This isn't their world and they don't know. I didn't tell them everything because I thought it would protect them but

Christ. I don't even know if I want to try to contact them. I wish they'd left. I told them to leave and they wouldn't so I just... let it be. I don't know wha...

I don't like dictaquills. My wrist better be functional tomorrow.

Hi. I think everything looks fine and I'm trying not to move much.

But if you come in a couple of days, we might have someone for you to look at. I dunno, I haven't talked to him but he's been acting a bit off and not really making a lot of sense. Someone else said it might be a good idea for him to see a Healer and I figured it wouldn't hurt so if you just happened to be around anyway.

Anyway, just a thought. If you're around.

Ok, my patrol, we're setting 24-hour watch on the cliff. Four hour shifts, one at a time.

midnight - 0400: Coote
0400 - 0800: taking this one myself
0800 - 1200: Shacklebolt
1200 - 1600: Robards
1600 - 2000: Smythe (Gina)
2000 - midnight: Williamson

I'll make sure food gets to you, for you folks on during meal times. We're on this until the boss says we're clear.

We're missing Carrow and Bones, boss wants a search party. Last seen yesterday, went on a food run, haven't been back. Just need five of you to meet me between the barracks in about thirty seconds. Don't stray from the group and if any of you feel like there's trouble, we'll get out of there. Not losing anyone on this one.

Signs of a struggle. Abandoned food, berries obviously stepped on. Carrow's scarf. No traces of who or where they've gone. But they're gone.

I used to think that dark always meant quiet, too. I mean that's what makes sense a lot of the time. When it's dark it's time to go to sleep and everything is quiet. But it's different out here. It's the middle of spring and everything is always alive. The frogs are really loud. And the crickets, too.

I don't know. I know we're fighting a war and I should be focusing on that. But the world is just so

It's just so big. Guess I could call this my gap year. Didn't travel Europe but I've been sleeping in a barracks for

For how many months now? January. It's May. Five months. And a couple of weeks.

I think it's Wednesday. I always hated Wednesdays.

Think I'll get up to fish in the morning. Probably take a little while to clean but with a bit of luck we might have enough for everyone to have some for lunch.

Is anyone going to go running?

I still don't know if I can write about it. I guess we've seen a lot of bad things in the past year or two but

I guess I just assumed he was invincible. He was about a million years old, but he was never really old to me. No one was ever supposed to be able to beat him. I guess it doesn't really matter now. In a way where it matters but it isn't something you can just

I mean there isn't anything to say about it. It happened. Is it really bad that all I can think is 'well what now'? What's next? What else could they possibly do?

And that doesn't matter either. Because it's our job to stop them.

Merlin.

Do you ever wonder what we'd be doing if we'd never learnt magic? We'd be about to graduate from university or something. Planning our gap year. About to take a tour of the continent. See the world.

I don't know. Guess it doesn't much matter now, does it.

How are you doing? I feel like I haven't really stopped since we got here and I've only seen you about twice.