Click. Lucius smartly closes pocketwatch as if to add punctuation to Narcissa's chilly delivery, watching her sidelong before he slips the item back into place. Henpecked is not actually a word people ascribe to Lucius Malfoy -- they have plenty of other words that would come before it, besides, some of them inappropriate to say in front of children. It wasn't true before and it isn't necessarily true now, but these conversations are new enough territory that he hasn't quite worked out the proper way to shut them down before they begin.
"Why, I would have thought you pleased if I could find a little hospitality out in the real world," comes out snide, boots clicking along the cold floor as he moves in approach. By the time he's near, a lily is halfway extracted from the vase between two fingers, not immediately recalling what its name is but for some reason it nags a little at the edges of his consciousness.
"Be careful you don't make the same mistake with your sensibilities." Narcissa's fingers pluck at the arrangement, adjusting for the absence of the flower whose stem Lucius holds. One won't be missed. When you have a son in your household who you've raised from an infant, you either make peace with the fact that your things will on occasion go missing or gray threads will appear in your hair prematurely.
She is too vain to be bothered by the theft of a lily, especially when she has dozens more growing where these came from.
They just aren't as nice. If they were, she'd have chosen them for the arrangement.
"I'll have that watch adjusted for you if you like," she offers. "Clearly it isn't doing its job."
You know, while we're on the subject(?). Lucius had probably assumed, back in Diagon Alley, that he would have delivered that a little smoother -- but he didn't expect the assault, and so he must block with what is on hand. In this case, it's a long velveteen lined jewelry box, extracted from out of his coat and handed over like one might their hidden ace.
The chain inside is simple silver, but the pendant is pretty, not too ordinary for it to be an insulting last minute decision, but not so elaborate as to be unnecessary -- a north star motif. He doesn't add that Draco sort of helped, somehow not seeing the benefit of doing so to his cause, here.
Bribery usually works. "And something to tell you."
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"Why, I would have thought you pleased if I could find a little hospitality out in the real world," comes out snide, boots clicking along the cold floor as he moves in approach. By the time he's near, a lily is halfway extracted from the vase between two fingers, not immediately recalling what its name is but for some reason it nags a little at the edges of his consciousness.
"I appeared to lose track of the time."
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She is too vain to be bothered by the theft of a lily, especially when she has dozens more growing where these came from.
They just aren't as nice. If they were, she'd have chosen them for the arrangement.
"I'll have that watch adjusted for you if you like," she offers. "Clearly it isn't doing its job."
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You know, while we're on the subject(?). Lucius had probably assumed, back in Diagon Alley, that he would have delivered that a little smoother -- but he didn't expect the assault, and so he must block with what is on hand. In this case, it's a long velveteen lined jewelry box, extracted from out of his coat and handed over like one might their hidden ace.
The chain inside is simple silver, but the pendant is pretty, not too ordinary for it to be an insulting last minute decision, but not so elaborate as to be unnecessary -- a north star motif. He doesn't add that Draco sort of helped, somehow not seeing the benefit of doing so to his cause, here.
Bribery usually works. "And something to tell you."
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