The year that was closing had been a difficult time for Tycho and he did not think the new year would be much different. Not with the way he was now. He felt stuck in place and he did not like the feeling one little bit. He supposed that he could only blame himself. He should not have gone to Fords that night. He should have just stayed home and continued to wallow in his self-pity. But no. He had gone there in his drunken, miserable state and now he had ruined everything for the man that he loved. He had to believe that Ford would be able to salvage things enough for his wife to not expose them or something. Though Tycho was not personally all that worried about his personal reputation.

He had been meandering around Diagon Alley because he was avoiding home as much as possible. If Ford came to his house to confront him, Tycho had no idea what he would say. Especially when Tycho was also so angry about what he had discovered that night. Ford had been the one behind the lie whilst the mans wife had been about to inform the Ministers wife of the truth, whatever that might have been.

In his wandering, Tycho came across a curious little booth. Well, calling it a booth was being generous. Even so, Tycho was intrigued and so he approached it. Inside the booth was a woman who asked Tycho a rather interesting question. One that Tycho pondered for a moment. What change would he like to make?

"A change I need in my life is to forget everything that happened," Tycho said before amending his own words. "Well, not entirely but just enough that my heart stops aching all the time and I stop hurting the person I love." It was probably too late though as the woman had already produced a bonbon for him before he had even finished speaking. Tycho had not noticed this though and also was not taking this whole thing seriously so he thought nothing of popping it into his mouth.

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