Harry called me, asked where I was and what had happened and went silent when I told him, disbelief and desperation and grief communicated during that moment of quiet. He found Rou and I, holding fast to one another, and asked Rou if she wanted to come with us. She shook her head, eyes fixated where the towers had once stood, and disentangled herself from me.

I didn't look back at her, too scared by the prospect of what else I would see.

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