He wasn’t the only one in trouble. Behind her Hermione could hear the slosh of the lake and the slow steps of more corpses. If she didn’t do something, all three of them would die. If she did, someone would be left behind. Vici could only take one of them away from here. Hermione couldn’t move of her own accord, Vici couldn’t drag her, and Regulus was too close to being overrun and yet still too far away from them. The moment any of them were caught was the moment their choices ran out. There was no