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impure_tale) wrote2011-10-15 03:01 am
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Do you know I never fancied ships in my youth? I had in my delusions, as a prisoner given to an obsession with numbers, once predicted that the letters I was receiving included secret 'signals' that I would be exiled to Barbados the following fortnight. This sent me into such a passion that I wrote probably some of the most unkind letters to my wife that I had ever penned -- not of course because I loathed sunshine, just the seas and all vessels that floated upon them.
I'm tempted to suggest this one does not count. Perhaps it is the absence of any real water.
Lucius Malfoy, I am making quick work of your file. I expect that we should meet very soon, but until I have committed this information to memory, we shall have to settle for conversation here. Have you any pressing quesetions?
I'm tempted to suggest this one does not count. Perhaps it is the absence of any real water.
Lucius Malfoy, I am making quick work of your file. I expect that we should meet very soon, but until I have committed this information to memory, we shall have to settle for conversation here. Have you any pressing quesetions?
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Wardens, I take it, have the power to request things, and Inmates do not. You indicated you'd request better accommodations and that should take care of my more immediate needs. I was more interested in your future willingness to provide.
I understand that depends on my behaviour. [ Tone is dry. ] I suppose too much to ask would be access to my wine cellar and dressing room, but more privacy than these communal shower facilities can provide would be much appreciated.
Parchment, quills and ink would suffice for now.
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So he diverts. ]
Ah. My file. Pray, what did you think of it?
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I suppose that's good news for me.
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And yet, I'm so very keen to get back to it. Death notwithstanding.
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You have not been given an easy task. A Muggle such as yourself will have little hope of grasping my situation, sympathy or no sympathy.
But do be careful about which you speak.
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As one aristocrat to another, one father to another -- you must not doubt that the Admiral would have joined us if he did not believe me capable of graduating you. I have seen those of noble birth commit great wrongs and make strangers of themselves to the populations that held them up, and I have also seen the most just of them, slew by the bayonets of a mass enraged at what evils their comrades had done on their watch. I have seen others accede change, become equals and brethren, in turn preserving a mighty tradition whilst safeguarding the futures of their offspring with industry, with new blood, with conviction. I have seen still more crumble, unable to find purchase in the new world that emerges without need of them. Just as it happened in my lifetime, it has already begun to happen in yours.
It is nature, whether magic is involved or not, for things to always change. You are here to change, and to learn what you must in order to help your family survive in the new world that is to come -- one that will not rise up to coddle you if you invoke the names of your ancestors.
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And so I am to believe you have my best interests at heart, and not that of my enemy.
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[He sits back]
I have graduated one Inmate since I was one myself. As with him, you have my solemn oath that you will have nothing from me but my sincerest and best informed efforts to guide you wisely, as well as my fiercest loyalty and protection.
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Is this inmate still among us? I should like to speak to him sometime.
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I do, in fact, enjoy reading. An indiscretion of my own I haven't felt the need to disguise since my school days.
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[ The wine is rolled about in his glass before further sipped from, with leisured appreciation for something that doesn't come from the blasted cafeteria. This mental comparison puts him back into context - he did not come here to be social and exchange niceties, for all that his surroundings hark back to days when that was his career. ]
I believe I have touched on all I require from you, Marquis. Did you have questions for me in return, or is the Admiral's literature on the topic quite sufficient?
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[The Marquis gently switches his goblet to his other hand and stares at the original, perplexed. He draws in a slow, labored breath, surprised to find it feels rather tight in the chest area. Not painful, but still a sudden change]
Pardon me.
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[ A hooded glance from the hand the Marquis observes for himself, seeing nothing visibly wrong, then to his face. Seeking out weakness over portraying concern is more Lucius' natural inclination, but he writes a mark of the latter between his eyebrows as appropriate. ] You seem unwell.
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Not at all. My final glass of wine for the evening, I think. But yes. [Once again attentive.] Your observations? Questions?
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Monsieur Snape had answered many of my questions, including those I did not know to ask, upon my first arrival. Back when I thought it a wise course of action to request my attorneys. [ Naturally, he'd have more than one, although there hadn't been enough wizard lawyers in the world to prevent Azkaban this time.
He pauses, and is careful, then, not to look too earnest as he asks; ] I was informed of the possibility that one can communicate outside the Barge, on occasion. Does this hold truth?
And as for what I observe... I observe many people playing by rules I hold little respect for. As I told Severus, this place offends me.
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[He hazards a guess despite his physical discomfort]
I know you may wish to contact your family, or to have some assurance that they are safe, and I have no definite answers to give you. Your graduation could very well decide that, or it may have no bearing whatsoever -- and by that, I mean it is very likely that they are and shall remain perfectly safe no matter what you do. However, if you do not graduate then they will be perfectly safe without you.
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Reading his own file could prove interesting, vanity aside.
But he does seem to know he desires not to discuss his personal life regardless, resting his hands on either arm of his seat and levering himself to stand. ]
As I said, we have discussed everything I desired to discuss. I shall leave you to your assumptions. Should I send for a healer? [ Blithely unconvinced. ]
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[The Marquis sets his goblet down.]
You mentioned persons playing by rules you do not respect, and that this place offends you. Elaborate.
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He can allow the conversation to run for the sake of this. ]
It is a ship run by a wizard of immeasurable power that wields magic like a Muggle discovering how to use a wand, and I daresay he wields moral justice in much the same way. I'm being held here for my successes, not my failures.
And tales of these ports and floods sound most undignified.
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