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[alt_regulus]

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Re: I know I shouldn't, but...

[alt_pansy]

Did the son seek revenge on the lord when he grew up?

I like the bit about the locket.

I do think it's a bit awful he was buried in the livery of the man who insulted and killed him like that, even if it was tradition.

[alt_lucius]

Pansy, I think it might be best if you were to ... limit your interactions with Regulus.

I know you are both grown quite fond of each other; Regulus has always possessed those qualities that both endear and amuse, like so many who rely on others' forbearance and goodwill for their own livelihoods. But his current circumstances are bound to cause you both further distress - his when he cannot sufficiently explain to you the privations to which his fealty subjects him, and yours when through such awkwardness he fails, as he inevitably shall, to meet your expectations, whether they are phantasies you have together concocted, attributes you have assigned to him without his active participation or particularly those in which he has given you any encouragement toward superlatives.

I would not wish proscribe you from continuing an acquaintance that obviously suits you both. Let us say instead that I merely hope to spare you a disappointment that I fear may soon confront you, should you grow ever more entangled in promises which your 'pirate' may find himself unable to uphold. Maintain your friendship, certainly, but be wary of deepening your attachment.

If nothing else, take instruction from his previous conversations with Mrs Malfoy, notably his many warnings that his time and attention are not solely within his own liberty to dictate, nor fill as he chooses.

Re: I know I shouldn't, but...

[alt_regulus]

After a fashion. I won't spoil the rest because you'll enjoy it much more if I send you the book (when books can be sent again, of course). It has wonderful pictures in the Russian style--all billowy dresses and swirling robes and sloe-eyed cattle and apple-cheeked children. It's a bit young for you, but if you enjoy it, perhaps you'll keep it to give to your some young person one day.

I've always remembered the locket. Mother had one with a lock from each of us, but she stopped wearing it when we were small and stuffed it in the very back of a drawer in her dressing table. She doesn't put much stock in such things, I suppose.

I think the point of his being buried in livery is not to do with the young lord, at all, but with the fact that a yeoman gives fealty to the lord's house. It's not the individual lord or yeoman that matters, but the line and the office, you see. The insignia marked him as a true son of his fathers as much as it marked him as a true vassal to the lords of that manor.