He has the feeling that there's something on Professor Rammsteiner's mind, but before he can ask about it, Professor Rammsteiner is looking straight at him and the moment is gone. It's not often that they look straight at each other like this; Jade takes in the paleness of Professor Rammsteiner's face and the redness of his eyes, and tries to relax the barriers around his mind.

He can feel it when Professor Rammsteiner delves into his thoughts: all of a sudden, he finds himself wandering through Durmstrang's dim corridors again, the cold surrounding him, sinking through his robes. Then his feet move of their own accord, and he's a puppet wandering through his own memories, tugged along by Professor Rammsteiner until he's back inside Professor Eichel's rooms.

His memories blur together for a moment, the events of tonight's visit melding with his memories of previous nights. There's Professor Eichel's low voice, smoothly going over theory, speaking of life and death. A hand resting on his thigh, stroking upwards-

No. He recoils mentally and physically, trying to wall off those private memories of sex and loss of control. Exhaling, he tries to direct his thoughts to the wall Professor Eichel had erected around his memories, but that just makes him think of other walls, the walls he had run into during his research...