Definitely still a sore spot, then. And Calliope was so well placed, by virtue of her new position in the family, to rub their mother’s absence in without even trying, which was quite the blessing. This Miss Zabini could throw all she liked at Calliope - animagus abilities, a language she didn’t understand - but she could not reinstate her rightful mother, any more than she could not carve out her own muddied veins.
“Well, if it worth anything, I am sorry for that,” Calliope said with the expected sympathy, imagining only that she would miss her own mother if something tragic happened to her, and not particularly interested in the Zabini girls’ trials.
“But I am so looking forward to us becoming close,” she reaffirmed with a smile, privately laughing at the ludicrousness of that. How could she and Miss Bellona ever be close, indeed!
“Well, if it worth anything, I am sorry for that,” Calliope said with the expected sympathy, imagining only that she would miss her own mother if something tragic happened to her, and not particularly interested in the Zabini girls’ trials.
“But I am so looking forward to us becoming close,” she reaffirmed with a smile, privately laughing at the ludicrousness of that. How could she and Miss Bellona ever be close, indeed!
