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There were fish on the cobblestones outside The Shipwreck – some of them still flapping about in a vain effort to find the ocean they'd been darting through a few moments before. Severus watched them dispassionately, listening to the steady tick-tock of his clockwork heart. He couldn't feel anything, and that was wonderful. But he couldn't imagine ever feeling anything again, and that was worrying. Because he was sure – even if his brain wouldn't supply him with the details right at this moment – that there was a point to having feelings, and that they were probably something he was going to miss. Madam Pomfrey was lying on t