Leaning back into her seat Marlena considered whether there was anything she could actually tell her brother. Officially they didn’t know anything. Unofficially they didn’t know much more, but the speculation had been rife in the Department of Mysteries – naturally, she couldn’t repeat anything that went on in there. The very last thing she wanted was to get into Miss Foxglove’s bad side…

“I don’t think I can tell you,” Lena said carefully. It was technically true. She didn’t know anything more than Eugene did but the Department did have a reputation to uphold. “I’m sure it will pass. Everything does,” she said with a clumsy attempt at subtlety. “Even broken hearts mend…or so I’m told.”

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