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Sep 05, 2007 19:23

Birthdays. Seems like every year there's another one of them ( Read more... )

dominic greene, rabastan lestrange, ginny weasley, moon

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ladysilverwheel September 6 2007, 22:46:11 UTC
Ooh?

What's all this, then?

"Celebrating something?"

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iambetadraconis September 7 2007, 00:39:07 UTC
He startles a moment, but only a moment.

It takes even less time for him to recognise that voice he knows so well.

"Birthday. Bar says it's my birthday today."

Try not to laugh too hard at the My Little Pony-themed cake, please?

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ladysilverwheel September 10 2007, 02:01:35 UTC
"Your birthday?"

She peers at the cake, inspecting it.

"And you are celebrating it with... pink horses?"

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iambetadraconis September 10 2007, 02:11:44 UTC
"Yes. Birthday. And the cake is Bar's idea."

Bar somehow manages to look smug while agreeing.

"Presumably to cheer me up now that I'm..." How old? Oh right. "...forty-one."

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ladysilverwheel September 10 2007, 02:13:36 UTC
"Forty-one," she repeats, voice flat.

"Rabastan, dear, you're practially a child compared to me," she laughs. "Why didn't you tell me your birthday was approaching?"

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iambetadraconis September 10 2007, 02:21:47 UTC
That doesn't make him feel any better. Mortal preoccupation with age is a hard habit to break.

"I ... must have forgot. I lose track of time now and then."

Which is true. In Azkaban there's nothing to mark the passing of time with.

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ladysilverwheel September 10 2007, 02:26:29 UTC
She frowns, lightly pressing a hand to his cheek.

"Well, I will have to think of a gift for you!"

Beat.

"I may have just the thing," she says, scurrying to Bar and returning with a clear glass ball.

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iambetadraconis September 10 2007, 02:31:34 UTC
The kind of gift Sybil Trelawney would never turn down.

"Crystal ball. What I never had and always needed."

Well. Why not? It could be useful.

"How does it work?"

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ladysilverwheel September 10 2007, 02:36:21 UTC
She smirks.

"It's not what you think it is. Here --"

She cups it in both of her hands and hums something soft and quick, and little dots of light begin to appear within the ball. As they begin to take shape they take the form of a wolf.

"The spirit of a wolf," she explains. "It is not trapped, do not worry -- but with this, you will be able to have the undying spirit by your side, even when there is no full moon."

The star-wolf, which is strikingly detailed in blue-white light, is running.

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iambetadraconis September 10 2007, 02:43:16 UTC
Silly wizard making assumptions!

"Through this I can access the full moon whenever I wish."

Isn't that what Asar-Suti's ring was for?

Must work differently.

Star-wolf. Lupus. If he knew who Leo Minor was she might say that the wolf in the sphere was Lupus. Or a small fragment of Lupus.

"And change outside the moon?"

However it works it's pretty.

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ladysilverwheel September 10 2007, 02:50:03 UTC
"No," she says, admiring her work with a small smile. "Through this you will simply have the spirit of the wolf by your side."

The wolf stops running and sits, licking at his paw.

"I would say he may offer you guidance but I'm not sure he realizes he's a spirit guide, yet," she laughs, tapping on the ball. The wolf looks up toward her, then continues grooming.

"This is a real, true spirit, you see. Somewhere in the world, this wolf actually, physically exists."

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iambetadraconis September 11 2007, 07:39:24 UTC
Sounds a lot like totemism. What he knows to be totemism.

"It does?"

Should he go and find it?

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ladysilverwheel September 14 2007, 22:06:12 UTC
"Yes, of course. A spirit never dies, you know."

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iambetadraconis September 14 2007, 23:49:00 UTC
"No. They don't. Not really."

He looks at the orb with its wolf.

Memorising the way it looked.

To find it you need to know what you're looking for.

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ladysilverwheel September 15 2007, 02:30:38 UTC
"I hope you two become good friends," she grins, pressing a kiss to his forehead.

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iambetadraconis September 15 2007, 03:14:52 UTC
Friends? Maybe. We'll see.

Oooh! Birthday kisses!

Can he have some more?

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