Private message to Barty

[alt_antonin]

Things here continue to be full of ridiculous bullshit, from the Enforcers having taken over my damn school to a double dozen students' trunks having turned up 'contraband' (by which they mean black-market sweets or the most inane and inocuous mudblood literature one might imagine). And Savitha is breathing down my neck attemping to be 'helpful'.

This year cannot be over soon enough. And after it is, we must talk about the prospect of

Say you'll be returning tonight? You shouldn't be alone right now, solnyshko, no matter how much you want to crawl away and lick your wounds in peace. I promise I will not press you to talk tonight any more than I did last night, but I don't like the thought of you by yourself.

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[alt_crouch_jr]

You command my life and my death, Batya.

I vow it in full knowledge that it strains the prior claim on both our faiths, but I vow it all the same.

[alt_antonin]

First claim is not always strongest. And if I am judged in the world beyond for breaking that claim to uphold the one you have upon me, so be it. Что напи́сано перо́м, не вы́рубить топоро́м -- you have been mine since the moment I found you, солнышко.

Now sleep. It will likely not be better in the morning, but at least it will be morning, and you'll need to be well rested.