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[alt_sirius]

Bugger all.

Merlin knows I've enough to be going on with: We're still trying to find a suitable ship for the 20th; we're busier than ever (though perhaps I should say they, as Aleks is really doing the legwork now, not me - which also means I've three people on the payroll, not two); and let's not forget that I'm being hunted all over continental Europe! But now I'm fielding philosophical questions from one confused, hurting young woman because her actual father-figure is a son of a BITCH who's twisting her into knots just to propagate a fiction for the masses! To cover up a systematic MURDER - no, not just a murder, torture and murder. Reg's torture lasted two years - nearly two years.

And the only thing she can think to do is ask a fugitive? The Public Enemy?

Stheno, Euryale and Medusa! I haven't a clue what to tell her. I'll not lie, certainly, not like that worm Lucius Malfoy - but I'm cursed if I know what the answer to her real question is. I've no idea what in Circe's name he was thinking when he went after Sanji Patil!

Do they really expect anyone to believe he had - what's the Muggle term? - Split Personality Disorder?

Oh, bugger it.

Comments

[alt_molly]

I think you've already put your finger on it, Sirius. Maybe it's not so much that she wants to hear answers--after all, she's getting answers from Malfoy and the rest. It's that she wants to hear truth. Even if the truth is that you don't HAVE an answer. She's been surrounded by people lying to her for her entire life. It's a good and healthy sign that she doesn't want to hear lies anymore. Tell her that. Tell her that even if you don't have an answer now, you'll not rest until you find it out.