 Lissy
Did she really know where she was going? Not really. Diagon Alley was just so different to Dean Village. The cobblestone streets stretching on and on, twisting and turning, branching off into various shops and alleyways. So, when her father asked her later how they’d ended up in Diagon Alley, the answer he’d give her was simple. It was Adam’s fault. It was his idea. 100%. Okay, so that was a lie but she was there with Adam and they didn’t even mean to go there! Right now, the youngest of the Luck sisters was too excited, too amped up to think where she was going or what she was doing. Too close was she to getting her own wand. Too close was she to finally owning her own spell books and her own trunk! One more year and then she too could venture off with her siblings and finally lean!
Instead, she was dragging her brother with her from the brightly lit alley and into another that branched off. Peering around her brothers’ shoulder, she looked at the various shops in front of her with curiosity, the wonders inside them almost too much for her to resist. And then there was the staircases splitting the alley into two. How could anyone not want to explore it? Even as twins, her and Adam would often bicker and argue but she couldn’t explore without him.
“So…should we go an look in some o’ thae shops?” her excitement causing her voice to trill. Someone a little older might have noticed the subtle change of lighting, the shadows and the sombre air that now surrounding them rather than the bright lights of Diagon Alley that lay behind them. Not that she knew she was somewhere different. To her, they were one in the same. “How about over there?” pointing to the sign that said “The Spiny Serpent”, the lure of the brooms a little too much. They could never afford one but no one ever said anything about window shopping. She should know, she worked in a shop. |