Porphyria could not tell for sure whether Mrs. Malfoy was moved by her declaration or simply staring horror-struck, but neither of the options disconcerted her enough to stop talking in her usual fashion.
Certainly not when her opinion was still being solicited, although exactly what the woman was hoping to hear Phyri couldn’t say. She raised her eyebrows as if to inquire further, but opened her mouth anyway, convinced that Mrs. Malfoy was far too reserved a conversationalist to do anything so crass as finish all her sentences. “Poetry or opera? It would have to be The Ring cycle for the latter,” - if only because fifteen hours of a saga was the most outlandish one could be, and Phyri was personally rather fond of the valkyries, and of people throwing themselves onto funeral pyres.
“Whereas choosing a poem would be impossible,” Phyri added lightly, casting her eyes over Mrs. Malfoy in case she dared her to. “But I have a fondness for the one I’m named after, naturally - though you’d make a better Porphyria than I. And spread, o’er all, her yellow hair -” she quoted, gesturing at Mrs. Malfoy’s angelic pallor in demonstration.
Certainly not when her opinion was still being solicited, although exactly what the woman was hoping to hear Phyri couldn’t say. She raised her eyebrows as if to inquire further, but opened her mouth anyway, convinced that Mrs. Malfoy was far too reserved a conversationalist to do anything so crass as finish all her sentences. “Poetry or opera? It would have to be The Ring cycle for the latter,” - if only because fifteen hours of a saga was the most outlandish one could be, and Phyri was personally rather fond of the valkyries, and of people throwing themselves onto funeral pyres.
“Whereas choosing a poem would be impossible,” Phyri added lightly, casting her eyes over Mrs. Malfoy in case she dared her to. “But I have a fondness for the one I’m named after, naturally - though you’d make a better Porphyria than I. And spread, o’er all, her yellow hair -” she quoted, gesturing at Mrs. Malfoy’s angelic pallor in demonstration.
a sublime set by Lady! <3