His denial was nothing less than she'd expected but the laugh was enough to make her smirk. It struck her as quite revealing. "You'd still have to live with the knowledge that your entire being amounts to that creature, it's not as if it's random." Thank Merlin she hadn't ended up a goose, while it might have given her wings the direct comparison to his killer bird would have made it all the more intolerable.

Tig turned around again to face him, leaning backwards into the piece of furniture behind her. "Did you tell the Ministry?"

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