Private Message to Draco

[alt_lucius]

It would seem you were right. As congratulations are in order, permit me to offer mine.

Is there anyone left in charge on your end with an idea of the terms they desire with the ICW? I am in a position where I might ... ease the transition, shall we say. Vouch for Albion's validity. It might speed along the process of reintroducing England to the world.



Your mother -

She will deny it, of course, but when she told me of your news ... the news that her cousin and her sister (and 'the werewolf') perished in the final act of this passion play, specifically, ... she related events with perfectly dry eyes, professed that she cared not a whit for any of the 'old battles,' as she put it, and then became so wracked with grief that she needed assistance to lie down.


So you may imagine that although we are removed from the direct repercussions, we are not immune to them.


I wish you well, my son.

Your

Father

Comments

[alt_draco]

Not right with a capital R, though. We've lost a lot, and the recovery will be long and hard. But we'll get there.

Your offer - I can see what it stands for, so thanks. What I can't see is Albion agreeing to be in your debt. We'll just have to make it without your anyone smoothing things along.

Huh.

Father, I still don't know if I really understand Mother. I get you backwards and forwards, but she still manages to surprise me. I mean, the part about her pretending not to be affected sounds just like her - but why pretend? If you're grieving, then grieve.

I suppose it's just not her way and I should give up pondering the matter. Sounds like it would be for the best.

Which isn't to say that I expected her, or you, to be unaffected.

I wish we were more on the same page, though. I suppose, for example, you were both troubled to hear about that rancid boil of a the dramatic conclusion to Crouch's "passion play." Or experienced mixed feelings, at the very least.

But on my end, the feelings weren't mixed at all.

That's what makes talking to you difficult.

To say nothing of ideological differences.