The amount of self-restraint it took for him to walk away last night was almost unfathomable. The pull Draco felt that led him to the tower initially was still there when he left. It was as if a piece of him was being slowly torn away as he walked back to the dormitory. As he laid in bed and went over the night’s events, it wasn’t until much later that he felt a slight settling to that pull, coincidentally it was also when he heard Granger return to her room. 