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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.

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[alt_alice]

Did you see this?

What does she mean?

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[alt_molly]

Anything that discomfits Lestrange has to be good news for us.

(Still no change on the clock.)

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[alt_alice]

yes. good.

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[alt_lupin]

Twenty-four hours until what? What on earth can that refer to? Have the French imposed some sort of time-limit on filing proper papers for the extradition, perhaps? Though I doubt that qualifies as an incident.

A full sweep sounds like they're searching for something, or rather someone, and if someone's been injured in this "incident"...

Is it too much to hope that he got away?

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[alt_kingsley]

It's not too much to hope, I think. If there was an 'incident' and she still had him in custody, she wouldn't be participating in the search herself. She'd be hustling away as fast as she could in the other direction with her prize.

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[alt_alice]

If she's got twenty four hours we might too.

I wish there was a faster way to send word to Mrs Finch-Fletchley, but one owl's already on the way.