It's nice.

They're not woken up in the middle of the night, and when they finally start drifting awake it feels later than it usually does. Fay's curtains block the worst of the outside glare, but the angle of the light through them doesn't look very morning-ish.

Mmrph.

If there was anything really bad going on someone would have come to get them...

Tired mumble.

(It's possible there's only bad things they can't do anything to affect, but... Fay doesn't want to go find out, right now.)

So they might as well just stay in bed a while longer...

Mmmm yeah. (Snuggle.)

Cuddles.

Eventually their bodies want attention, though, even if the world outside is content to let them sleep.

Mmmrr bodies are inconvenient.

Guess they gotta get up, then.

It seems so.

Fay's efficient about getting her body's initial demands satisfied, though, and quickly sets to making Ellie's favorite kind of morning tea.

Best Fay.

Sip. "Thanks."

Anathema gets a cup of her own, leaning sleepily against her wife.

"It's no problem, Ellie."

Soft smile.

"We probably need to get to the kitchens for food..." Anathema says. "And we might want to - ask what's been going on."

"Time to face the world again."

"Yeah..."

They have a bit of a delay getting dressed, of course, then - out into Hogwarts.

And hopefully nothing's caught on fire overnight.

It doesn't seem so - or, at least, no new fires. They fortunately emerge during a lull in the kitchen's constant efforts to feed Hogwarts' suddenly expanded population and can get food brought out to them fairly easily. (The house elves look incredibly stressed, and there's new elves mixed in with the usual staff.)

It sounds like the Ministry is now firmly under Death Eater control, though there's still pockets of resistance - the Death Eaters have been having trouble exerting full influence overnight on the rest of magical society, apparently more so than they expected, but there have been moves for mass arrests of 'suspected traitors.' Minister Bones is missing, as is the majority of her closest staff. The Death Eaters did seize the press and have declared her guilty of crimes against the people, but - the veneer of a legitimate revolution is thin. There's at least one wireless station still not under Death Eater control, and it sounds like the staff there have successfully gone into hiding.

St. Mungo's is under Death Eater control (no surprise there). More people have been making their way to Hogwarts, especially anyone who fears retaliation from Voldemort's forming regime - which is safe, so far, though they're having to screen everyone coming in for polyjuice, Imperius, or any hidden items, and they're housing all the refugees in groups by origin, away from the main workings of the castle proper, until people can be confirmed safe and placed somewhere semi-permanent.

Hogwarts can hold nearly the entire population of the Isles' wizarding world if they're willing to squeeze a bit - or live out on the grounds away from the castle, if they can get the old cottages repaired or new housing up - but nothing's prepared, and apparently Headmistress McGonagal's been deputizing everyone good at permanent Transfiguration to help her and the house elves get more beds in, if nothing else, while it sounds like Professor Sprout is rushing to increase the food being grown even more than she already had. Voldemort's currently too busy cementing his hold on the Ministry to bother them - but it sounds like Hogwarts is settling in for a siege.

Relatedly, once the girls are rested - Headmistress McGonagal is asking everyone trained in Defense and Apparition and capable of navigating the muggle world to go buy food, medicine, supplies... She's already gotten some emergency funds from the goblins, moving a large fraction of Hogwarts' accounts into the castle itself in the form of muggle currency.

(And a message is passed to them, quietly, from a tired house elf - Headmistress McGonagal wants them to know that their house is secure, the inhabitants alright.)

They can go check on the house, then see about buying some supplies.

Yeah.

Safest way is probably waiting for the Headmistress's floo to be free, heading through there to Grimmauld, from Grimmauld to home - Anathema's reluctant to Apparate close to their house right now, though that might be silly, no one's tracked them doing that before...

There hadn't just been a successful military coup at the Ministry before. Safer is better.

Yeah.

It sounds like there's a bit of a lull right now, too... And they can bring messages back from anyone at Grimmauld.

They'd better get going, then.

Yeah.

They're able to get through fairly easily - Grimmauld Place is a whirlwind of activity, and it turns out where Minister Bones retreated to - and then home.

Where Bellatrix is sitting at the kitchen table, wireless on, a transcript spell running and a notepad out. She looks up when they floo in, face drawn.