Walking Dead Wizard

Chapter 37

Merle grunted in agreement, they certainly weren't the most comfortable but considering he'd been sleeping on his back on cement or dirt for months he'd take whatever he could get.

"Didn't you use your sleeping bag?" Luna asked slightly surprised, she had.

"Um, no, I didn't think I'd need one," Harry said honestly shrugging his shoulders.

"There, that's as good as I can make it for now," Harry said looking around, pinching the bridge of his nose. The first things he'd done was levitate the dead bodies and burn them outside the prison, letting the wind carry their ashes away. Then he'd gotten rid of the blood, after summoning buckets and water, just to be on the safe side if he was interrupted. The things he had to do to keep his magic under wraps. The second he was sure they could survive on their own he would tell them, it wasn't just Luna getting exasperated by the restrictions of magical usage he was too. The bedding had been stripped if it was covered in blood and burnt with the bodies, same with the mattresses, which was admittedly not many but enough, nobody was going to be sleeping on disgusting blood covered mattresses the idea was just disgusting. Despite the fact the place had been cleaned Harry could still see the bodies lying there as if it was permanently imprinted on his mind.

Harry honestly didn't know whether to feel relieved he didn't have to contend with prisoners or not, not everyone in prison were bad people, some might not have deserved that fate. There was nothing to be done now, the prison was his now, the groups, the prisoners and guards were gone never to return, which actually might be a good thing, this wasn't exactly a life they were living, it was pure survival at this point.

"Did you put the ward on the gate?" Luna enquired; it looked much better, cleaner in fact you wouldn't think anything had happened. "Wait where did you get the cleaning stuff?" it was some heavy duty bleach.

"Yeah, and it was already here I just summoned it, it was actually really good at getting the blood out, at least the little bit I tried it on." Harry shrugged, he'd used magic to remove it all, just tried out of curiosity and to have the smell of bleach in the air if someone came down, as for the bleach, not surprising really, they probably had to deal with blood quite a lot, the inmates at least some of them, were bound to be violent to the extreme some day. "Not that cleaning is important right now, ridding the damn prison of walkers and making sure its safe is the most important thing. I want to see if I can get some sort of blue print of the prison from the guards office, so we know where we are going, and mark it off maybe once we clear and secure every part. I mean will there be anything like that? Or would that make an escape attempt too easy?"

Merle scratched the scruff on his chin thoughtfully, "There could be," he admitted, the chances were slim but still there.

"What about using magic?" Luna enquired her blue eyes thoughtful.

"Nah, it isn't that easy otherwise everyone would have known the complete layout of Hogwarts, like the Marauders map, they actually added to it every time they found somewhere, making our own one I suppose could be possible...have you ever heard of a spell that creates a map of any property?" he didn't claim to know every single spell in the world, and Luna was a Ravenclaw, if anyone knew handy spells it would be her.

Luna frowned thoughtfully, "No, but I might know a rune that does," she wasn't exactly sure how it worked though; she'd need to read her books, which wasn't easy as it seems. "I'd need to check." perhaps being on watch would be a good thing, she might actually get the chance to read without being interrupted.

"A Rune?" Merle muttered curiously showing interest.

"Yeah, they're drawings imbued in crystals or walls or even paper, that not only draw the magic from the person but its surroundings," Luna explained, "I'll show you, they're not easy to explain. They're also not the most popular aspect of magic anymore." it was easier just to mutter a spell and boom that was it done, runes require more than that and the ability to remember accurately the design.