Fitz,

Are you mad? You could do plenty worse than Miss Zabini. I can only imagine what sort of situation you found yourself in, and I'm sorry it was not a decision you were able to make for yourself, but at least it was such an attractive woman a woman mother cannot find too many faults in. She seems like the sort mother would have seen you paired off with, anyways, and I will be sure to remind her of such if I hear her plotting all the ways in which she can kill you.

I have stories to share with you as well, though none nearly exciting as an elopement. Those can wait, though.

Freddie

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