❀29th Charm❀ ⇁ video [Locked from Bellatrix]

[choseherownway]

[This is probably the most distressed most of you have seen or will see Lily Evans be. It's been a shitty couple of weeks for her, and she looks sort of like she's missing a day or two of sleep]

Sirius Black hasn't checked in with me for several days now. [she swallows, injects some steal into her voice] If any of you happen to see see him, tell

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Private;

[loisfuckinglane]

Sorry to hear about Sirius.

What's going on?

Private;

[choseherownway]

Perhaps he'll return. [She doesn't seem hopeful]

I - if there's anything the past few weeks have proven to me, it's that trying to take on everything involved in the Caterpillar Alliance is incredibly stupid, and also that if something were to happen to me - of a more permanent nature than dying - I don't want the same thing to happen as it did when Hatter died. Left. It was a mess trying to figure out all the details.

And...you know that I'm Force-bonded to Isolde. Ever since she's been in a coma, it's been rather like someone's cut off a limb. I keep reaching out, only to remember that it's gone. It's unsettling, and I don't think it's doing any favours for my mental state, if I'm honest. Which I think I ought to be. Essentially, what I'm saying is that you're the only one I really trust to know everything and help me run and organise everything, because I don't think it's a very good idea for me to be doing that on my own right now. The Alliance is too important for me to risk it getting caught up in my own issues. [It was really

[loisfuckinglane]

[Lois has been thinking about Hatter a lot recently, so the mention makes her look down sadly.]

If anything, the things that have been taken from me have only made me more determined to fight.

Did you really think I would say no?

[choseherownway]

[That makes two of them.]

Well. I thought it would be polite to at least pretend to give you an option.

[loisfuckinglane]

I appreciate the gesture. But the answer's still yes.

[choseherownway]

[She smiles, grateful] Thank you, Lois.

[a pause] Severus still hasn't returned.

[loisfuckinglane]

Is he in the habit of long unannounced vacations?