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[alt_regulus]

It's dark as pitch

behind you, the bright one

there, low in the south, with the Lyrids shooting

like hexes towards you, past you

   there: one

       another

 

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[alt_regulus]

You left them. What were they supposed to do? You made it clear you didn't need us.

It's different now than it was. That's

true

but what you wanted wasn't right any more than

it would have gone wrong even faster
 
 
 
 
 
 
No. I don't want that. All right? I don't.

[alt_sirius]

Once again, we remember it differently. I'm not surprised.

And you don't know if it would have gone wrong, but that's

That doesn't matter now.


I mean


look what he's done to you, for

I do believe you, Reg. That it's gone wrong for you and you know it.

I'm just not sure you


The trap wasn't home, or Father's strictness, or even Mother and her spiderwebs of guilt and whatever else. It was in thinking theirs were the only opinions that mattered - their philosophy the only one that worked.

[alt_regulus]

Who knows if it worked or not? If it would have. It's not what it

This isn't

 
 
 
Mordred.

It's not as if He doesn't know I think it, anyway, but I can't

[alt_sirius]

Oh, for mercy's sake, Reg! You're a WIZARD, not a damn MOUSE.


Sorry.

I told myself I wouldn't


Look, I know it's scary, right? But you have to believe there can be another option.

[alt_regulus]

I can't fight you tonight.

I just

can't