8th July, 1895 — Morwenna Skeeter's House

Despite it being the third day of their shared despair Morwenna thought Kieran looked better than the last time she had seen him. Still thin as a bone, of course, and vaguely haunted-looking but she was hardly in a position to throw stones. She felt worn out as she never had before; the change last night had been bad, probably the worst night she had ever endured in her wolf-form (apparently one recalled none of one’s human emotions but Morwenna could not imagine why her wolf-form would have hurt itself so frantically if it had none of her human-form’s new appetite for self-destruction) but she didn’t have the energy left to care.

"I expect you've heard?" She said by way of greeting, gesturing for him to help himself to coffee from the pot and falling rather than sitting into her armchair. "Hopefully it will save me explaining myself too much." She honestly wasn't sure she could have done so, even if she had wanted to. Staying upright was enough of a struggle.

Kieran Abernathy | Cassius Lestrange

  

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The stress that had seeped into his bones in anticipation of visiting Morwenna Skeeter felt out-of-place; Kieran liked her, and often felt vaguely mothered by her in a way that his actual mother i not quite bother. But now she was mourning, her only son, and he was &mash; not particularly good with death, or felt that he was not.

He was tired; he was overdrawn; she still looked much worse than he had ever seen her.

"I've heard," Kieran said, hanging his coat on the hook next to the floo and stepping into her sitting room. He sat in the armchair next to her and rested his elbows on his knees. "I'm so, so sorry."

  

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Kieran meant it, she was sure, but Morwenna had to close her eyes for a moment to push down her emotions. The ever-present sorrow was there, of course, but along with it was a white hot shard of anger at the world that had let Mason die and her live on. It wasn't fair to take it out on the man sitting with her though so she took a deep breath instead and gave him a tight, bitter smile.

"Thank you for coming at such short notice, I'm afraid my patronus must have sounded a little unhinged when it reached you."

Which barely scratched the surface of how she felt, but it was better than admitting she had lost her fucking mind and would he mind terribly helping her burn the rest of her world to the ground?

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Kieran shrugged his shoulders at her. "I'm used to unhinged," he said, although truth be told her patronus had been a bit much even for him. He swallowed before adding, "What can I do?"

  

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“You’re not going to like it,” she said, readjusting her leg to ease the ache that never seemed to go away. She had been told once – by a well-meaning healer who thought her wound had been inflicted by a tiger – that there were draughts she could take to ease the pain, but they made no difference. What was the point? She needed the pain now to remind her she was alive.

“I’m going to confess and I want you to write it.”

  

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Kieran, in the middle of another sip of the coffee — better quality than what they had at home — made a choking sound deep in his throat.

"You're sure?" he said, voice slightly shrill. There was only one thing she could have to confess.

  

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