Forest. Tonight. Sundown. || Milo and Mystery Messenger
"So you’ll listen to a letter, but you won’t listen to me," Holland said, coming out of the woods with a mild smile on his face. Truth be told, he wasn’t sure how this was going to go. He’d made it as far as the owls, the meeting, but after how their last meeting went, he didn’t expect Milo’s feelings towards him to be especially favorable.
He wasn’t sure what to make of his being there, either. He wanted to think that maybe Milo knew and had still come. That would be idea. But then, he’d gone through such careful measures to be sure that no-one would know it was him. He couldn’t take the risk. And as an auror - for, even after his…encouraged retirement, he was still an auror - he knew how to take precautions.
No, if he had to make a wager, he would’ve said it was Milo’s curiosity that brought him out. He was such an inquisitive thing. There was nothing more alluring to him, it seemed, than a mystery to solve. In a way, this was Holland’s nod to that. Part one of what was bound to be a very sincere and multi-faceted apology. It was time for him to eat some crow, and he knew he deserved it, after the way he’d treated him earlier.
Besides, he was a werewolf; he’d eaten far worse.
Well, he guessed that settled it. It had been Professor Thornwood that sent those letters earlier. In hindsight, he really should have known. No one else had quite the same mastery of monosyllables as he did, and he always suspected he had hidden subversive talents. Shame he was too big of a rule monger to let his trick flag fly.
Then again, the fact that they were out there in the woods doing this whole 'cover of moonlight' meeting kind of suggested that maybe Thornwood wasn't quite the stickler he thought he was.
He wasn't really sure what to do with it, though.
"I didn't know it was you," he admitted. Which was harder than it should've been. He was the guy that knew things. The guy that knew everything. To admit that he'd been clueless wasn't a good feeling. And to admit it to the guy that'd pissed him off so royally just a couple days ago didn't help. "You didn't exactly sign it with hearts."



















