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[alt_regulus]

If I know one thing, I know this.

The dead cannot pass for living.

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[alt_pansy]

can we pretend I didn't screw everything up and have things just go back the way they were?

I'm sorry.

I don't want it to seem like I'm expecting something you can't give me or seeing something that isn't there, or asking you for things, because I'm not. I just like you for being you and that's enough. That came out wrong. Why is everything I do wrong?

I'd so much rather talk about fairy stories and suits of armour than not talk at all.

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[alt_sirius]

Kid, you didn't screw anything up.

You've got a bastard for a god-father, that's all.

More to the point, I think your bastard god-father's using you to get at my brother. Emrys knows why he feels he has to bother.

[alt_regulus]

You said your stomach is giving you trouble. I'm sorry to hear it.

Have you been to see the Matron yet? Perhaps she can give you a dyspeptic draught. It helps me.

So what's your favourite story? Is it one from when you were small or something you've read more recently? I'm not trying to get you to say it's that pirate book I sent. I don't mean that kind of book, anyway. I mean the kind you want to read again and again.

[alt_pansy]

I just got back. She did give me something to settle it, although I'm still not hungry.

I'd have to say my favourite story from when I was little was The Swan Princess. Hitty even taught me to crochet so I could practice making the nettle shirts, but it always turned out wonky or I'd get bored and stop. But I remember thinking how incredibly brave the princess was, to work to save her brothers like that, even when she was about to die.

And I thought an entire family of Anamagi were really nift. Even if they had been cursed. I used to make mum read it to me every night.

And dad gave me his copy of The Two Kneazles for my birthday a few months before he died. I didn't really get it when I was younger, but I must have read it a dozen times by now and each time it gets better.