Private Message to Toshenka and Stephen
Dec. 28th, 2012 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_luciusWell, thank Mordred that's over.
Stephen, he did well. Quite well. Let me know if time with others his age will help him put this behind him. Harry's spending most of the holiday with us at the Manor; he could go flying with the boys and not dwell on what's been done.
Tosha, it seems you took the curse for us all in conducting Weasley elsewhere; you might be disappointed you separated, however, for Razzer joined us in Oban. (Thankfully he did not press us for details of the event, other than to ask if it had been successful.)
Dominic seemed to need the refreshment almost more than anyone. Kept going on about last Friday (and this), and how unpredictable He is becoming. Believe the business with Bettina truly unsettled him.
Don't know if you know this but Chloe locked him out that night. Then there was her outburst toward Razzer's astronomer, of course. Advised him that if he's truly worried about Our Lord's wrath being visited on his wife, he ought to counsel her toward more discretion, in future. He wasn't pleased with the remark but was too far in his cups already to give much protest.
Unfortunately, that did not stop him fretting over what might come next. First preventing Bettina Yaxley from holding a wand to punish Claudius. Then this business of forcing your ward to get his hands unnecessarily bloody, Stephen. He even suggested that Our Lord might take a notion to combine the two and force one of our children to kill one of our wives. (Do not need the night terrors that conjured!)
In the end we decided to book him a room. If he's having that much trouble with Chloe, she surely would not appreciate his arrival by Floo, stinking of firewhiskey, smoke and blood magic.
Merciful Morgana, it's been an absolute bitch of a week.
Stephen, he did well. Quite well. Let me know if time with others his age will help him put this behind him. Harry's spending most of the holiday with us at the Manor; he could go flying with the boys and not dwell on what's been done.
Tosha, it seems you took the curse for us all in conducting Weasley elsewhere; you might be disappointed you separated, however, for Razzer joined us in Oban. (Thankfully he did not press us for details of the event, other than to ask if it had been successful.)
Dominic seemed to need the refreshment almost more than anyone. Kept going on about last Friday (and this), and how unpredictable He is becoming. Believe the business with Bettina truly unsettled him.
Don't know if you know this but Chloe locked him out that night. Then there was her outburst toward Razzer's astronomer, of course. Advised him that if he's truly worried about Our Lord's wrath being visited on his wife, he ought to counsel her toward more discretion, in future. He wasn't pleased with the remark but was too far in his cups already to give much protest.
Unfortunately, that did not stop him fretting over what might come next. First preventing Bettina Yaxley from holding a wand to punish Claudius. Then this business of forcing your ward to get his hands unnecessarily bloody, Stephen. He even suggested that Our Lord might take a notion to combine the two and force one of our children to kill one of our wives. (Do not need the night terrors that conjured!)
In the end we decided to book him a room. If he's having that much trouble with Chloe, she surely would not appreciate his arrival by Floo, stinking of firewhiskey, smoke and blood magic.
Merciful Morgana, it's been an absolute bitch of a week.
Re: Private Message to Toshenka
Date: 2012-12-29 08:42 pm (UTC)But as for your thoughts on the realms beyond this one ... well, that's our age-old debate again, is it not? Perhaps it is better to cleave to a belief in something, as a balm against the 'inevitability' of finality. Personally, thought that was no small portion of Our Lord's mission, in which we are His acolytes, as it were. That when He has mastered the veil, we His best councilors shall share in the bounty.
Though there are times when I wonderMordred, you and I both know that despite Our Lord's talents in all things, His predilections have never lain on the road of diplomacy! You have grasped the central difficulty, yes.
Re: Private Message to Toshenka
Date: 2012-12-30 08:34 am (UTC)But as I said, you've given me more to think about, in this particular iteration of our eternal wrangling. About immortality, and the various forms it takes, and about lineage and our responsibility to the ancestors who have gone before us and to the children who have and will come after.
Well, and I suppose that after a rite like last night's is a good time to think those weighty thoughts, and a snowy December eve at the turning of the year is a suitable backdrop!
If it is any consolation to you, if your own thoughts are as vast and ponderous as my own: I will say once again, you and Narcissa have engendered a fine son between you, and nurtured and shaped several other fine children throughout the years. The ones you've had a hand in the raising of proclaim their worth again and again. And as Tony lives on in Pansy, and Serena in Ptolemy, so will you, in Draco. And in the others you've had the teaching of, as I will in my fine collection of students.
As to more pleasant matters: Before this surefit of energy from Friday's working wears off and I must once more return to hoarding every scrap of power this damned curse will spare me, we should take advantage of it. Wednesday is your morning at the Ourobouros, is it not? Will you be keeping that appointment this week despite the holidays, and if so, would you care for a round or two? And we can discuss the ways in which we might be of the greatest assistance to Our Lord and His vision, and redouble our efforts to take the more displeasing parts of His obligations from His shoulders, that He might be more free to continue His work in the ways He sees fit.