work-related anxiety

Hermione frowned. “The real question is why the magic of Britain would be failing now, in fact.” “That is not the real question!” Ron said loudly; he’d woken up fully by now, and Harry had too; it was starting to sink in that they’d found the problem. “The real question is, how do we fix it?”

“I haven’t…” she starts, watches his blue eyes narrowed in concern and it’s distracting, everything’s distracting. “I haven’t had a body in a hundred years,” Zelda manages, and shrugs one shoulder, as if to say what can you do? “I was Hylia, mostly, and a little bit me, but I wasn’t a person. I was the sun and the wind and the water and the dirt and I was in a prison and I was the prison. I feel like I’m blindfolded, now, without that sense of the world, but also everything is so bright and loud and close and I hardly know how I’m managing to speak to you when my skin is feeling wind for the first time in a century. It’s…” she trails off, her words failing her, which is infuriating because she’s a scholar, she’s good at words. “It’s a lot,” she finishes awkwardly, for lack of anything better to say. Or: Learning to be a person again, after the end.

“When the Night’s King rides,” the giant said, each word slow as cold honey pouring, “the King in the North must answer. The King in the North…whose name is Stark.”

Geralt placed the crown on his head before kneeling at his side, and the weight of it felt heavy on Jaskier’s brow. Jaskier’s path to becoming king, takes place five years after the fall of Cintra.

“Ask me. Ask me and I will.” He was a Diamond. He did not beg. There was a desperate tilt to his voice anyway. Steven Universe finds himself enamored with the new librarian in Beach City. Only he isn’t the only one who’s interested. Pink Diamond is also intrigued, creating a whole new set of complications.

Hypothermia; immediately before giving into freezing entirely, when cold becomes warm, when neither death nor ice are real. Clarke is nothing more than a power piece to Roan, a bargaining chip he uses in order to exert his new rule over his people. She doesn't hate him for it, even understands why he took her away from her people and back to the Azgeda capital, but that doesn't mean she enjoys the situation. Of course, living among people and in close quarters to their king, it's not an easy task to remain apart from them.