Frederick’s career hadn’t changed terribly in all the years she had known him. He didn’t seem to mind this, of course, seemed happy enough where he was - so neither did Sarah. (A pay rise might have come in useful if their family had ever expanded, but since it hadn’t -)
“Well, I hope they don’t send you anywhere near it,” Sarah said, with a sigh, reaching out to touch him lightly on the wrist and supposing she could be worried enough for the both of them, as usual. “And I do hope it clears up soon,” she added, pushing off from her chair to check on the eggs and potter about at the range, too antsy to sit still and stare into her tea-mug for any longer (Cassie had Seen the fog coming, of course she had; Sarah ought to have prepared somehow, put them up in Hogsmeade for the time being or something). “We were supposed to go to Irvingly to celebrate little Theo’s birthday with them.”
“Well, I hope they don’t send you anywhere near it,” Sarah said, with a sigh, reaching out to touch him lightly on the wrist and supposing she could be worried enough for the both of them, as usual. “And I do hope it clears up soon,” she added, pushing off from her chair to check on the eggs and potter about at the range, too antsy to sit still and stare into her tea-mug for any longer (Cassie had Seen the fog coming, of course she had; Sarah ought to have prepared somehow, put them up in Hogsmeade for the time being or something). “We were supposed to go to Irvingly to celebrate little Theo’s birthday with them.”
