( miavi. un: x )

[darkart]

[ If you're feeling fancy and bored tonight (today, this morning..), here's a magic puzzle for you. It looks something like:


The parts can be re-arranged into two dozen different runes, which can then be translated into spells. The simpler ones, of which there are fifteen, simply make everything disappear when 'solved'. The remaining, more difficult nine are:

✧ Shimmery, translucent flowers appear around your head and shoulders, for about five minutes.
✧ BANG. Jumpscare.
✧ An enchanted doodle plays Hangman with you, the winning word changing periodically.
✧ Displays a recipe for zucchini bread. The best zucchini bread you've ever fucking had.
✧ Suggestions for what to try at the curry house in Hogsmeade.
✧ Creates a very cold feeling for about five minutes.
✧ Causes the message What else could you have been doing with your free time? to appear.
✧ Displays directions for a spell to turn nicotine cigarettes into clove cigarettes.
✧ Nothing. Unless you have a Dark Mark, in which case, a small black snake slithers into existence from the base of your wrist, wriggling to the inside of your elbow before vanishing.

Once each rune has been 'solved', the drawing vanishes, making doing more than one very difficult; the witch or wizard (or wizich) will have had to have made a copy or cast a charm to preserve it prior to fussing through everything.

( OP's username, x, is not anonymous, though Severus's general disinclination to socialize might leave even 'friends' in the dark. up2u, my sweet beans. ) ]

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[darkart]

"Obviously."

A sudden burst of energy and clear agitation, Severus advances on Draco - helpfully still taller than him - glowering. "Or you wouldn't be here."

Someone not prone to doing foolish things wouldn't have gotten himself in this situation, wouldn't have done something as brutally sloppy as allow such an indignant fuss over a gilded fascist government to be connected to a person poking around about the Dark Mark. If anyone but Severus had been on the other end-- not that anyone but Severus would--

Still.

"You are going to tell me everything about the wars in your world and the state of the Minister there."

[anguium]

Draco doesn't flinch. He's very proud of himself for not flinching actually, even at forty-six and change, which is hilarious considering, but Severus Snape has always cut an imposing figure for him. His eyes do flicker away though, just the once, before he goes back to looking at him. "I know your handwriting. I'm here on a fifty-fifty gamble that's worked out for me. So far, at least."

He could still be murdered.

"I can, it's no secret for me to."

I'm not typing it all up. He's going to tell the whole story.