"The bedroom fireplaces aren't on the network," Morrigan said. She suspected this was for everyone's safety, and that when they had been teenagers it had been an attempt to keep her and Lear from getting into trouble — not that it had stopped either of them.

"I think the one in the kitchen is fine," she added, with a shrug. That floo was mostly used by their handful of servants, so even if she was in the mood to be helpful she would not have been.

She had considered doing the same spell on both, but the malice could spread if it felt well-fed, and she was not sure that two malices conjoining would have been very good for her house. She did have to keep living here, after all.