Private Message to Lucius Malfoy

[alt_antonin]

What in the name of Salazar reborn is going on over there?

We are getting only fragments and no one else seems to suspect anything amiss, but I smell coverup. Do you need more hands?

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[alt_lucius]

In a word, bratishka, bedlam.

The IMA apparently is more like a colony of cockroaches than a flock of wild geese. It somehow (we are still discovering how) managed to leave a calling card at the Ministry's Christmas party. Am sure it was intended to ignite a few minutes later, when Our Lord would have been in the path of destruction but some providence or His uncanny power caused it to fire prematurely.

As the Pink Porker has already informed everyone in her ... unique ... manner, my clerk's father threw himself into the blast - pushing Dominic Selwyn out of the way, in the process, I hasten to add.

You can imagine the chaos we have been controlling since that moment.

But I am glad you wrote, brother. Our Lord means to summon His faithful to Him within the night - and more. Claudius conferred with Him not an hour ago and was told that He wishes to address the full Court. Narcissa, Toshenka. Chloe, Diana, even Yvaine - possibly (though I am not certain) even Raz's astronomer. You've grown fond of her, I know, but somehow I doubt anyone has adequately prepared her for the close observation of Our Lord in one of His worst fits of fury.

And it was terrible and fearsome, Tosha. As only a handful of times before.

Perhaps it is an over-identification with young Weasley in his present circumstance, the violent and sudden loss of his father but - do not mind confiding that I am uneasy about the interview to come.

[alt_antonin]

Mordred's mercy.

I'll be there as soon as I can, and we will do what needs to be done.