Victor shook his head, though he didn't think 'puttering abroad' was necessarily the worst way to spend one's time, either. They'd gotten ferried around to enough foreign countries as children, and he had fond-ish memories of it. Oscar probably had fewer; by the time he'd been born Victor was gearing up for Hogwarts and they had been more or less settled in England, at least until their father grew restless again.

"No," he said. "Just — opting out of all this and doing whatever he fancied." All this being England, being society, being expectations, being responsibilities, being family duties — all of the things that Victor had devoted his adult life to, in other words.

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