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[She can't breathe. There's an alarming few seconds where she can't catch her breath because of the way she's landed but then she sucks in a ragged one—and that hurts more, somehow, so does the cough that follows, but she isn't bleeding (any more than she was when he first found her, anyway) so there's that. Ginny winces as she pulls herself up to sitting, bracing a hand against her left side as she takes another careful breath—bruised, she thinks, brilliant—and finally answers, ]

I'm fine. It's fine, I just... [The cobwebs clearing, looking around at the chaos, seeing it finally as the hallucination it is.] This isn't Hogwarts. You're right, it's— [Using him as leverage, trying to stand,] Damn, but it feels like it.