With a nod, Kate stretched her legs out, leaning forward as she listened to Hermione. It wasn't the same type of life she'd led at all and it wasn't something she could really understand, but it made sense to her. She could imagine something like a big war might be more important than worrying about what your boyfriend might want you to do next weekend.
"Harry told me a bit about the war," she said. Sometimes it was still difficult to believe people she knew, people her age had gone through things like that. In Kansas, nothing had gotten much more dramatic than Buck sleeping with Pammy and while that had sucked, it wasn't even remotely on the same level. Teenagers weren't supposed to do things like that. They weren't supposed to have to fight or die.
"But I can see how that'd be sort of distracting," she continued with a small smile, even though there wasn't anything funny about it at all. The very thought of it still scared her a bit, but she didn't want to say that. Not even to Hermione. There was something childish about it, something silly. Kate could talk about sex for hours, but war and death... that was too much.
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"Harry told me a bit about the war," she said. Sometimes it was still difficult to believe people she knew, people her age had gone through things like that. In Kansas, nothing had gotten much more dramatic than Buck sleeping with Pammy and while that had sucked, it wasn't even remotely on the same level. Teenagers weren't supposed to do things like that. They weren't supposed to have to fight or die.
"But I can see how that'd be sort of distracting," she continued with a small smile, even though there wasn't anything funny about it at all. The very thought of it still scared her a bit, but she didn't want to say that. Not even to Hermione. There was something childish about it, something silly. Kate could talk about sex for hours, but war and death... that was too much.