Things.

[dracolicious]

Confessing recent events to Dora went about as I expected. It was completely dreadful for me, but Potter took it to an entirely different level. Like it or not, he's the only one of us who really grasps orphanhood from firsthand experience, and still he was the more composed party. The boy who was unwanted, having to tell the next generation that she, too, is now unwanted . . . Dora didn't have much to say about it at all, after we'd spent countless hours working ourselves up. She just shrugged and mumbled something that might have included the words "All right," and that was that. Potter scooped her up for a bit of conciliatory cuddling after that, and I sat next to him feeling murderous, twitchy and unsure of my role in this. I'm just waiting for that sorry pair to come slinking back, caterwauling about a tragic miscarriage and wanting the chance to abduct Dora after all.

I'm hopeful some of the kids take us up on our offer of choosing whether or not to be put on the auction block, should another set of potential parents turn up.