Diane woke up in a cold sweat. Alas, she hadn't had much of a peaceful sleep. In fact, it felt as if the hole that had swallowed her decided to spit her out.

Her skin tingled uncomfortably. An image, in her dreams, filled her with an uncomprehensible frail and scared notion, and it wouldn't leave her. It must be the fever; she was cold. Ah, she was still wearing damp robes. Her head fell to the side; she was... on the ward, of the Hospital Wing. She looked around, at the neat beds and at the silent spacious chamber filled with nothing. As such perceived by her eyes. She couldn't help it that this place made her feel small and sick. The Slythering Girls' Dorms were the same.

Guess she couldn't help despising that place.

She didn't try to sit, not because she remembered of the possible poison that may or may not take her life. It was that, her heart wouldn't be silenced with anything. The thing she saw in her sleep. It was so imponent, yet sad.

It made her puzzled and...

Breathing out, she reminded herself she should be relieved she hadn't been victim of a sudden death, or fallen into a comma during her unexpected sleep. That ruled out most of the most dangerous poisons, she recalled. Along with no visible skin rash... She turned on her side, only starting to recall. Those people... those people. Did they saw her hurt and just let her drift aimlessly through poisoned waters? They were no help. Even the man who helped her, so unfeeling, unsympathetic. This much neglect. What was wrong with these people?! No, what would she do was the real question.

Uncomfortable, she sat up at last, and was suddenly now aware of pain on her wandarm. A sore shoulder from tension, and her hip where she had bumped into the suit of armour. Most importantly, the cold made her fast to forget about preventive meassures and she hasted for a cover. She had the distinctive impression, did she not get warm soon, death with the face of the thing in her dream would come for her. She stripped from her shoes and socks and wrapped her hands around her naked feet. Coming to Hogwarts had been a change for her; something about it was unsettling her.