Private message to Pansy Parkinson
Jan. 12th, 2011 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_luciusLittle Bit,
I've no time to use owls, even Valerian, or your stationery parchment. There's something you need to know.
Your mother allowed Ganymede Bobolis to run an article about her wedding and honeymoon, but as is so often the case with him, he used the material as an opening to write about her previous husband as well. It goes rather into detail, particularly about his death at the Battle of Leicester. Most of the story you know, but - well, there are things I had rather you were spared until you decided you wanted to know about them.
I doubt many of your schoolmates already have the piece. However, surely within the next day or two you will have access to it and the news will circulate. I will deal with Bobolis; you, however, must shoulder the consequences of his revelations. The article cannot help but garner you some notoriety.
I leave it to you whether you would prefer to read it so you know what is being said, or shield yourself behind the defence of not having seen it first-hand. You should know that he was clever enough to toe the line concerning you and there is little to no mention of you directly. I assume he thought by so doing he would not incur my displeasure, a miscalculation I shall soon correct. Had I known his intentions I should have advised him against his course.
Nonetheless, what is done cannot be undone, only addressed as best we can. To that end, I must go for now, but I am here if you need me and I am, as ever,
Your servant,
Lucius
I've no time to use owls, even Valerian, or your stationery parchment. There's something you need to know.
Your mother allowed Ganymede Bobolis to run an article about her wedding and honeymoon, but as is so often the case with him, he used the material as an opening to write about her previous husband as well. It goes rather into detail, particularly about his death at the Battle of Leicester. Most of the story you know, but - well, there are things I had rather you were spared until you decided you wanted to know about them.
I doubt many of your schoolmates already have the piece. However, surely within the next day or two you will have access to it and the news will circulate. I will deal with Bobolis; you, however, must shoulder the consequences of his revelations. The article cannot help but garner you some notoriety.
I leave it to you whether you would prefer to read it so you know what is being said, or shield yourself behind the defence of not having seen it first-hand. You should know that he was clever enough to toe the line concerning you and there is little to no mention of you directly. I assume he thought by so doing he would not incur my displeasure, a miscalculation I shall soon correct. Had I known his intentions I should have advised him against his course.
Nonetheless, what is done cannot be undone, only addressed as best we can. To that end, I must go for now, but I am here if you need me and I am, as ever,
Your servant,
Lucius
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Date: 2011-01-13 01:06 am (UTC)I read this earlier, but I didn't quite know what to say.
I guess I still don't. But I thought you should know that I'd gotten your message.
Everyone else will read it at school, and it's not right that they'd know more about my own father's death than I do. I'd rather hear it from you than read it in a magazine, though, because that's not right either.
What does it say?
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Date: 2011-01-13 01:26 am (UTC)You want me toYes, well.As I said, it spends a great deal of column-inch telling the, er, intimate details of the Battle of Leicester. You know that your father was separated from the main force and fell victim to an explosion.
What you do not know .... What I never wanted to tell you, until you were ready ... is that the blast did not kill him right away. He was not in pain - the Healers saw to that - but it was ... some time ... before the end.
The article also lists several of the others involved in the Battle and I think you will be ... surprised to see some familiar names.
What more do you wish to know?
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Date: 2011-01-13 01:35 am (UTC)oh.
how long is some time?
and are there any photos of it in the magazine?
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Date: 2011-01-13 01:46 am (UTC)As to how long, I'm still not completely certain. By our best estimates, about three hours. It was over an hour before the fighting ended and we could police the area for the wounded, you see. From then, it was at least another two hours or so before he ....
I've already made it clear to Bobolis that the article was a mistake on his part, at least the sensational way in which he shone a spotlight on your father's tragedy. This is not the way you should be learning of it, Little Bit. He was a hero and a loyal servant to Our Lord. Remember that.
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Date: 2011-01-13 01:58 am (UTC)and I will. remember.