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[egotrippings]

[Blonde. Grey eyes. To anyone familiar with the Malfoy family - Lucius in particular - it's clear that Draco's a relative. He's quiet for the first few moments, although his expression is somewhere between `bored` and `sullen`. He’s not, as one might expect, happy to be here. What can be seen of his surroundings show that he’s not in one of the

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[egotrippings]

And I suppose judgements and assumptions like that have got you real far, haven't they?

[egotrippings]

Then I guess you'll just have to be surprised, won't you?

[Or not, as the case is likely to be.]

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[frosty_mind]

It's often wise to get to know people who've been stuck in an uncomfortable predictament with you.

I'm Emma Frost, from the previous wave of kidnap victims.

If the pieces I've put together portray the situation accurately, the people responsible for it died in 1918, along with many other people, in the attack on the Core. Well - such of them as were present on the island to begin with, which probably didn't include the leadership. Hopefully old age, if nothing else, has dealt with the remainder.

A word of advice, if I may - it's not really appropriate to sneer at the Greeters. How would you like to have a job explaining to people of unknown but often great abilities that they've just been kidnapped into an entirely different world and there's nothing they can do about it?

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[egotrippings]

The previous - how many waves have there been?

[A brief pause as he considers her response. 1918. Muggles, then, if old age was expected to kill them off.] 'Hopefully'? I'd want them to fix it.

[He doesn't bother to respond to her comment about the Greeters - he wouldn't want, or have, a job like that, and it's not enough to change his opinion on them or their job. The lack of response probably says about as much.]

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[frosty_mind]

The current set of kidnappings has been ongoing for about two years in waves a couple of months apart. I haven't been around for most of it, obviously.

According to report, there were earlier incidents, decades ago.

[At his statement that he'd want the people responsible to fix it, she shakes her head.] No, Draco Malfoy. This power, and perhaps even this island, was built, or at least modified, as a prison to hold people like us. The natives of this world, not those of us kidnapped from elsewhere, but anyone with abilities not possessed by normal humans. The current situation came about because the prisoners attempted to escape by attacking the Core; the backlash killed almost everyone then on the island

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[egotrippings]

[Some of the arrogance fades at her response, his discomfort more than obvious, and his expression briefly flickers between disbelief, anger and, quite possibly, fear.]

Why would I have gone looking for them? I'm not an idiot.

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[goldilocked]

Sort of noblesse oblige, if you will. We are intruders on their territory.

[voice]

[egotrippings]

They wouldn't owe any obligations to us if we were simply intruders.

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[goldilocked]

By the by, there is nothing we can do about it, Draco.

[voice]

[egotrippings]

'Nothing'. So you've just accepted your fate, have you?

[DISAPPROVAL and slight mocking, it is there.]

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[eyevigilant]

[Not really in him to give a relative of a Malfoy the benefit of the doubt. Kid or not. And he has taken the Dark Mark -- the whole story's been gone over many times at the Order's headquarters. The 'timeline' business would make a great cover story for someone to pretend to be more innocent than they were.

Still. It's too early in the game to do anything more than say...]

Watch your step, boy.

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[egotrippings]

[He knows it wasn't Moody at Hogwarts, but that knowledge isn't enough to stop him flinching slightly at the voice and the face, his father's mentions of the man aside. He doesn't respond immediately, opting instead to eye the feed warily. After a moment, he seems to recover a little - it's easier to find bravado when he's hidden behind a book, as it were.]

I don't believe we've been properly introduced.

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[eyevigilant]

Doesn't mean you don't know who I am. And I damn sure know who you are, Malfoy.

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[egotrippings]

[He opens his mouth as if to say something before abruptly changing his mind. He'd been going to mention his father, but that doesn't seem like the wisest of decisions, all considered.]

No, I know all about you. One of us hasn't spent a year living in something small and cramped, after all.

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[zealouspeter]

This January, it'll have been two years for some people!

Not many people, though. You'll probably be luckier and leave early. Until then - are you going to stay "disadvantaged?"

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[egotrippings]

I'd have to be disadvantaged to stay disadvantaged.

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[zealouspeter]

It's a whole new world with a whole new set of rules! Isn't everyone at a disadvantage in the beginning?

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[egotrippings]

Only if you let yourself be.