HE'S THE ONLY ONE SHE'LL LET DO IT, AND EVEN THEN, SHE HAD TRIED TO DO IT ON HER OWN, BUT BANDAGING IS A DIFFICULT TASK ONE HANDED. Hermione is quiet as he works at applying the curative salve. The first two had done nothing but made the messy cuts itchy, which would normally indicate healing but when she peeled back the bandages to check she'd found it looking as if it had been done to her hours ago and not weeks. It is healing, when she stares at it long enough she can see the inflammation has gone down ever so slightly, the taut, red edges softening and the weeping of blood slowing, coagulating finally. It's healing, but at a glacial pace. Hermione can only attribute it to some sort of curse that had been put upon the blade. Sometimes she hates magic as much as she loves it.
"Dreadfully ugly thing, isn't it?" she finally says, if only to break the tension heavy silence between them, her eyes leaving the jagged letters carved into her forearm to look at @managedxmischief instead, finding solace in the blue of his eyes; clear as the sky on a summer's day.