Iliya grins as he listens to his friends banter. They're always amusing, of course, but Iliya can never hide his delight when he's in Honeydukes. The sheer nostalgia of it leaves him breathless for a moment, and for the first time in nearly a year, Iliya misses Hogwarts. He misses hearing familiar accents and seeing the "u" in the word "flavoured," and the teasing chatter of students who have never in their entire lives worried about dying in the bloody woods.

Then he turns and looks at the faces of his friends, the people he loves most in this world after his own family, and Iliya feels a different kind of nostalgia, sweet and piercing, somehow more painful because he hasn't lost it yet.

Iliya takes a deep breath. "There are also blood lollies." He points past Kenzie to a shiny cup stuffed with dark red lollipops. He's fairly certain those aren't meant for humans, not that that will stop Kenzie.