[multiple threads] follow, mopping up

[lumenrelegandus]

Who: Lupin, everyone to whom I owe a log, and a few I don't ;-) (Sorry for medleyizing!)
When: After the official golem all-clear-but missing Bella's return post.
Where: see below
Format: Anything you like
What: Lupin walks off former bedriddenness. Hunts down folks where forge messaging feels insufficient.
Warnings: These are just starting points

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Leaving the Clinic

[lumenrelegandus]

The night after the battle in the marketplace was probably the best sleep he'd had since being injured. The sun dawned, and without thinking about it, he simply got up, got dressed, and prepared to leave.

First he looked for Sakura. Best to be officially discharged. Mostly he wanted thank her in person. He knew that some of the connection he felt to her had nothing to do with her at all. Despite the genuine… if not friendship, at least alliance, they'd started by now to create; there was a depth inciting some of that which was not about Sakura herself. Which was unstable and unfair… but thank Merlin, thank god, on some level, it was still there.*

He also had two notes he hoped she would pass along. He didn't know anything about Edward Elric. That was where forges were useful, but the man had saved Lupin's life; the least he could do was start with a physical letter. The other was for Byakuya. Lupin would remain at the Police Force's service whenever and however he could, while regretting having been ultimately unhelpful in this line of inquiry.

He would not go to the police station in person right now. He'd seen the forgepost of Lestrange being killed. It would not end there. He knew it to his toes. But it meant for the present, for today, for an hour, he was done with her.

*Do you understand now what she took from me-what I let her take…?