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ked back at the fsh of light, was already scrablg up the bank the fox had jt fallen down
”cissy--narcissa--listen to --”
the send woan caught the first and seized her ar, but the other wrenched it away
”go back, bel!”
”you t listen to !”
”i39ve listened already i39ve ade y decision leave alone!”
the woan nad narcissa gaed the of the bank, where a le of old railgs separated the river fro a narrow, bbled street the other woan, bel, followed at once side by side they stood lookg across the road at the rows and rows of dipidated
ick hoes, their dows dull and bld the darkness
”he lives here?” asked bel a voice of ntept ”here? this le dunghill? we t be the first of our kd ever to set foot--”
but narcissa was not listeng she had slipped through a gap the rty railgs and was already hurryg across the road
”cissy, wait!”
bel followed, her cloak streag behd, and saw narcissa dartg through an alley beeen the hoes to a send, alost identical street of the streetps were
oken the o won were runng beeen patches of light and deep darkness the pursuer caught up with her prey jt as she turned another rner, this ti eedg catchg hold of her ar and sgg her around that they faced each other
”cissy, you t not do this, you can39t trt hi--”
”the dark lord trts hi, doesn39t he?”
”the dark lord is i believe istaken,” bel panted, and her eyes glead ontarily under her hood as she looked around to check that they were deed alone ” any case, we were told not to speak of the pn to anyone this is a betrayal of the dark lord39s--”
”let go, bel!” snarled narcissa, and she drew a wand fro beneath her cloak, holdg it threatengly the other39s face bel rely ughed
”cissy, your own sister? you wouldn39t--”
”there is nothg i wouldn39t do anyore!” narcissa
eathed, a note of hysteria her voice, and as she
ought down the wand like a knife, there was another fsh of light bel let go of her sister39s ar as though burned
”narcissa!”
but narcissa had rhed ahead rubbg her hand, her pursuer followed aga, keepg her distance now, as they oved deeper to the deserted byrth of
ick hoes at st, narcissa hurried up a street nad spner39s end, over which the towerg ill chiney seed to hover like a giant adonitory fr her footsteps echoed on the bbles as she passed boarded and
oken dows, until she reached the very st hoe, where a di light glired through the curtas a downstairs roo
she had knocked on the door before bel, cursg under her
eath, had caught up tother they stood waitg, pantg slightly,
eathg the sll of the dirty river that was carried to the on the night
eeze after a few sends, they heard ovent behd the door and it opened a crack a sliver of a an uld be seen lookg out at the, a an with long bck hair parted curtas around a sallow face and bck eyes
narcissa threw back her hood she was pale that she seed to she the darkness the long blonde hair streag down her back gave her the look of a drowned pern
”narcissa!” said the an, openg the door a little wider, that the light fell upon her and her sister too ”what a pleasant surprise!
”sever,” she said a straed whisper ”ay i speak to you? it39s urnt”
”but of urse”
he stood back to allow her to pass hi to the hoe her still-hooded sister followed without vitation
”snape,” she said curtly as she passed hi
”beltrix,” he replied, his th outh curlg to a slightly ockg sile as he closed the door with a snap behd the
they had stepped directly to a ty sittg roo, which had the feelg of a dark, padded cell the walls were pletely vered books, ost of the bound old bck or
own leather a threadbare fa, an old archair, and a rickety table stood grouped tother a pool of di light cast by a candle-filled p hung fro the ceilg the pce had an air of neglect, as though it was not ually habited
snape stured narcissa to the fa she threw off her cloak, cast it aside, and sat down, starg at her white and treblg hands csped her p beltrix lowered her hood ore slowly dark as her sister was fair, with heavily lidded eyes and a strong jaw, she did not take her gaze fro snape as she oved to stand behd narcissa
”, what can i do for you?” snape asked,