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Originally Posted by
Ameh 
Wet robes were bad though! Kiri might get a cold, or pneumonia, or any number of horrible things. She could get... wrinkly toes! She was all drippy and damp and poor Kiri... He needed to dry her off RIGHT NOW before she caught a cold.
"What's the spell to dry people off..." he mumbled, scratching the back of his head. "Ter.... Terg... OH." He took out his wand and pointed it at himself first. "Tergeo."
Well that was nice. His socks were dry now! Yay. He'd sort the rest of his clothing out later. He pointed at Kiri and murmured 'Tergeo' again, several times, siphoning off water with every go.
"If you stay all wet, you could get sick," he said absently, rubbing the back of his neck and he flicked his wand again. When she asked about Roscoe, he didn't even glance at the cat. "That's Roscoe... I've had him since first year. He's very friendly. He was down in the dungeons when they flooded... but the professors saved him. Did the potion make you feel better? It's really hot isn't it."
"What are y-" Having the spell performed on her felt strange, but as it was Raiden doing it, it felt even stranger. Kiri could almost see the water evaporate wherever Raiden's wand was pointed, leaving magnificently dry robes and a lingering warmth - the threefold reason for that being the potion, Raiden's spell, and Raiden himself. Some of the numbness disappeared from her limbs along with the water. Kiri's spirits lifted simultaneously.
"Thank you," she said gratefully when Raiden was done. Most of her clothing was dry now, the pieces that weren't merely damp (and those were the ones Kiri was
not going to say anything to Raiden about).
It was bearable. And Raiden had even taken care of her clothes first, completely neglecting his own! What if
he got sick now, caught a cold or something... He always seemed to be in poor health anyway. "Go on, dry your own clothes now," Kiri urged him, surveying the Great Hall now that the dread of the water was subsiding. "I'm okay, I think. The potion helped. And you helped even more." She patted the robes that were no longer soggy and dripping water. "See?"