Order Only: Private message to Ron

[alt_sally_anne]

Guess what? I GOT MOVED BACK TO DAYS. Healer Ludsthorpe, I don't know if you've run into him as he only came over officially a week or two back, apparently ADORES working nights. So I might get pulled in now and then to fill in but I can work sensible hours again.

I thought I'd like working nights, I mean I always have trouble sleeping and hate getting up in the morning, but it turns out it's ten times harder getting to sleep during the day and then getting up when everyone else is going to bed. Ugh. And I'll be able to see you! I mean, at least when you're not away at work.

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[alt_ron]

I'm not at work now. So, y'know, if they're letting you off tonight, we could...

Are they letting you off tonight?

[alt_sally_anne]

Yes!!! I have the night off. I guess I was overdue for one, I hadn't been tracking the days that closely but Healer Ludsthorpe counted up.

[alt_ron]

Good thing someone was!

I'll come walk you back if you want. There are some bad elements in the castle at the moment. Maybe you know already? Finnigan and Montague came over, and Brodie let them come here because they're afraid their mates from DEMLE are a bit hacked off at them.

[alt_sally_anne]

Finnigan is here? Seamus Finnigan?

Is that why the Longbottoms took off for Moddey? I'd heard they all decamped, but I thought maybe they were considering moving HQ out there.

[alt_ron]

Yeah. Finnicky. Seriously. Brodie turned Montague, and it turns out he's Montague's kneazle. Can you believe it?

They turned up at lunch together. Hydra and I had an amusing time, staring them down over our sandwiches. Not sure whether they're still here, actually. I missed supper. But I'm not sure where else they'd've gone. And you're right, Alice and Ev are away, and I reckon that's probably not a coincidence.

[alt_sally_anne]

They just turned up at lunch? Merlin. Did Hydra tell you what he was thinking?

[alt_ron]

Yeah. He was pissing himself he was so nervous about being back here.

So we made sure he knew he was right to be worried.

Seriously. Hydra. I mean, if she'd been looking like that at me, I'd've been worried. Like she was imagining her chicken breast was a thick slice of Irish 'ham' instead.

[alt_sally_anne]

Hydra was eating chicken? Since when does Hydra eat chicken (or anything else that used to be a cute animal?)

Anyway I'm glad he was nervous. He SHOULD be nervous.

[alt_ron]

She eats meat. Hasn't she always?

I mean, we had roast last night, and she had seconds. I know because I passed it to her.


And, yeah. He should be. If I knew where they're staying, I'd send Quintus Twycross's ghost after him. And the Baron.

[alt_sally_anne]

I could ask Myrtle to track him down. She might think that was a lark.

And Hydra's a vegetarian! Or at least she was pretty much forever until, I don't know, sometime after I started the night shift, I guess. (When she was younger she was sort of a sugartarian. I mean if she could have lived on nothing but sweets and rice I think she'd have done.)

[alt_ron]

Actually, sending Myrtle after him would probably be just as traumatising. For him. Though he deserves something loads worse. Thing is I don't trust him. None of us should. I think it's mad they took him in.

Huh. I don't know about that, but she likes meat well enough now.