26. Morsmordre
It was only his words from before that kept her from screaming. He had whispered, ‘Use your brain, girl.’ And so she did. She stayed quiet as he left, jerking a dazed Draco Malfoy behind him. ‘What in hades is going on tonight?’ She thought but her body and mind were in shock. She stayed silent as Bellatrix Lestrange and the others Death Eaters cackled and left. She stayed put even as Harry raced after him with a murderous expression on his face. She finally sobbed when she leaned over the edge to see the broken body of her Headmaster on the cobblestone below. And above was their mark, HIS MARK, Morsmordre, among the clouds. Itself a sinister cloud painted a sickly green. She found herself throwing up on the wooden plats that made up the floor of the Astronomy Tower. She was shaking, with tears or the cold or the very disturbed reality she now found herself in she didn’t know.
It wasn’t until months later, in the tent with a sword they should not have, that she finally stopped shaking inside and realized the true extent of what he had meant when he said, ‘Use your brain, girl.’ |