A long story; he believed it when she said it, and curious as he was, it wasn’t the sort of thing he could just out and ask about. They did not really know each other, ‘mutual friends’ or not.
But her answer to his other query came free and easy, so Theo managed to relax a little. “Sounds like an adventure,” he said, with the quirk of a smile. He had never seriously considered cursebreaking, back when he’d been leaving school, but if he had been drawn to becoming an Auror, he had at least understood the appeal of something – thrilling and sometimes dangerous. And she got to travel, then; he was almost envious. “Must be nice to get away. Have you,” his tone turned more careful in the asking, though he wanted to seem nonchalant about it, “seen many people, since you got back?”
But her answer to his other query came free and easy, so Theo managed to relax a little. “Sounds like an adventure,” he said, with the quirk of a smile. He had never seriously considered cursebreaking, back when he’d been leaving school, but if he had been drawn to becoming an Auror, he had at least understood the appeal of something – thrilling and sometimes dangerous. And she got to travel, then; he was almost envious. “Must be nice to get away. Have you,” his tone turned more careful in the asking, though he wanted to seem nonchalant about it, “seen many people, since you got back?”
