[The question is asked softly... It's not that dangerous softness that often masks the coiled serpent underneath, but rather the softness that Regulus might remember from when they had both still been in school, talking about the future and 'what if's, when life was not quite so dangerous. It is the softness that grey borders are made of.
But when it seems like the boy is about to answer, Snape cuts across it.]
Though I suppose that doesn't matter. Not here. Not right now. Your Mark was bared for everyone to see, you have no choice unless you wish to openly defy him.
[It's the unsaid, or perhaps the way everything is said, that speaks the loudest.]
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[The question is asked softly... It's not that dangerous softness that often masks the coiled serpent underneath, but rather the softness that Regulus might remember from when they had both still been in school, talking about the future and 'what if's, when life was not quite so dangerous. It is the softness that grey borders are made of.
But when it seems like the boy is about to answer, Snape cuts across it.]
Though I suppose that doesn't matter. Not here. Not right now. Your Mark was bared for everyone to see, you have no choice unless you wish to openly defy him.
[It's the unsaid, or perhaps the way everything is said, that speaks the loudest.]