Slipping (Harry Potter)

There was only so far that they could go.

(Down, down, down, through the rabbit hole they went.)

They parted ways, though they stayed in the same place.

(Where they were they didn't know, where there was danger one didn't go.)

Lions are bigger than badgers. So was he bigger than her.

(„Reputations are more valuable than any currency down here," said a liar.)

She swore to protect him. He swore to help her.

(Two oaths were shattered to pieces as one ran headfirst into danger while the other one couldn't catch up.)

They both learned eventually,

(They both learned eventually,)

that words were just words.

(oaths were impossible to keep down in this Wonderland.)