Raven deflates, his words sending her back to the past.
The reason why she had started all this in the first place.
How is she going to tell him that her mind has been set on it since she found out that he died from wolfsbane poisoning?
That she had decided to find a cure to wolfsbane to honour his death and make sure that she never has to lose anybody to the deadly poison again?
That her world had shattered after she lost him and finding the cure had become her lifeline. It had become her purpose and what kept her living all this while.
She cannot bring herself to tell him. She will just sound crazy, especially if he denies being Draco again.
So she glances away from him, saying the closest thing to the truth that she can without lying to him outright.
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