Closed: At least this place is still standing.

[rockinriah]

Everything still felt strange for Zacharias. Not having magic for even a little while left him anxious and jittery. It hadn't even been that bad. He'd caught up with Daphne over ridiculously fantastic food with a house elf willing to magic anything up that they may have needed. In comparison to what he was hearing, bits and pieces here and there, a

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[marloww]

They had spent the rest of the afternoon at the hospital before finally taking her father home, the three of them carefully hovering around him, making sure he was propped up properly in his bed with enough water and snacks and movies to get him through the rest of his required bed rest. The Healers had said he lost a lot of blood and they were worried he wouldn't recoup properly without at least the week in bed. Which was highly agitating to Sebastian who grumbled the entire way up the stairs and even got a little sassy with Marlow and Jonah when they suggested getting him a little bell when he needed something. Eventually, though, Marlow knew she needed to return to the castle

[rockinriah]

"If you tell me that," he started as he set the book aside, weirdly engrossed in it now that he'd started the damn thing. "You're probably never getting rid of me."

He grinned at her from where he was sitting on the edge of her desk. It was both ironic and hilarious if he thought about what had happened there the last time he'd been here.

"I figured I'd save you a trip this time." He tilted his head back and forth a couple times before he stopped to grin at her. "And see if the castle collapsed on top of you when the magic went out. I'm glad to see it didn't."

[marloww]

"Nearly-" she breathed with a shrug of her shoulders.

She stepped gingerly around her coffee table, shedding her jacket and laying it on the couch before kicking off her heels. She raked her fingers through her curls, closing the space between them as she reached the desk. She couldn't help but wrap her arms around his shoulders, just glad to feel the weight of him against her.

"You wouldn't believe what's been happening here," she said, knowing it was a vast understatement. "Or where I've just been-"

She groaned, pulling back even as she wrapped her arms around his waist.

"I'm really glad you're here."

[rockinriah]

As she hugged him, Zacharias wrapped his arms around her waist. When she moved back even a little, he settled for running his hands idly over her arms.

That sounds basically as ominous as it probably was. Ominous was, in Zacharias' experience, never actually a good thing.

"Me too, since apparently you have some sort of insanity to tell me about." His eyes widened a little as he gave her a questioning look. Mostly, the expression was confused, but that was close enough to the same thing.