Title: All Is Well
Author:
scarysnapeyWord Count: 100
Rating: G
Challenge: #339 Ninteen Years Later
*cough cough* The last line is a shameless homage to the epilouge that I despised. *cough*
The room is dark and has one clock, but the hands do not move,
Salamander blood... scarab beetles...
reminding Severus that he has all the time in the world.
Scurvy-grass... sneezewort...
He is bound to no master, and he can spend his time however he pleases, so he reads
Sopophorous... spiders...
his encyclopedia, which smells of ink and dust and silence.
Tubeworms... valerian...
Then he turns the corner of the last page
wartcap powder... wolfsbane...
and laughs when the encyclopedia’s final word reminds him of Harry Potter.
Wormwood.
The Mark has not pained Severus for nineteen years. All is well.