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[alt_bellatrix]

Travers, Gupta, Yaxley.

Leave your post at Calais and find me at once. We're a few kilometres to the east - I've sent up a signal.

There's been an incident. Zuckerman is down and we need a full sweep.

Keep your books out, it's the fastest way to communicate.

We have less than twenty-four hours.

Comments

[alt_narcissa]

No.

NO.

Oh, you should have ignored the gendarmes and incapacitated him when you first arrived, Bella.

Oh, this is maddening!

[alt_bellatrix]

Calm down, Cissy, there's no call to fret.

And as much as I agree with your sentiment, you know that our Lord is looking to the future and wishes to stay on a friendly basis with France.

[alt_narcissa]

Oh, I understand why you didn't - it's just infuriating when he ruins a perfectly good mood and what was going to be a beautiful, red-letter day for us all.

Perhaps this will at least give more credence to Lucius' conversations with the government there, once they see how one despicable man can pose a threat to us all.