"I know," Hestia said softly, curling downward for a moment to press another kiss to the top of his head before tightening her grip on him again. She needed the contact too right now, had since Hannah was gone, as though letting go would let something happen. She imagined it was starting to unsettle Ernie with that fact, as she had hugged him several times for absolutely no reason, as well as when the owls had arrived. Miles had already brought it up several times when he too found himself the focus of random hugs or touches, but she had been gratified that the jokes about her 'wanting him' hadn't been followed by him edging away.

"Anything new?" she asked, even as her gaze fell to the open journal on his desk. The silence since the last, disastrous owls had been almost a day now and she has refused to think about why that was.