𝗇𝗈𝗐, 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍 𝗆𝖺𝗄𝖾𝗌 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗀𝗁. you aren’t expecting it. not right now, not after the news that have come to you. you’ll miss aunt astoria, but you know in your heart that she was... suffering. that she is in a better place now. you also know that your uncle draco will be... hearbroken. that scorpius has vanished somewhere and you need to find him soon. you need to find him, and comfort him. it has been a day already. illyana has at least given you something to smile about. you move to wipe the tears that have gather at your waterline, as to make sure that they don’t spill from there. you don’t want to cry right now, you can cry at some other point, hopefully. you shake your head, almost wanting to say more but you know that now it not the best time. you will find scorpius later and cry it out together, or so you can hope. maybe scorpius will be stoic, not wanting to show emotions, not wanting to feel what has happened to his mother. but there is a part of you that knows this will not be the case. that you will find him completely pieced apart. you move your head back, keeping the tears back. now that you have done that, you move to shake your shoulders. now, you are alright to not cry, there’s plenty of time to cry at a later time. ❝ alright, i’ll keep that in mind for next time, ❞ that shakes out another laugh out of you. ❝ i just... this is how i deal. i’m just... it’s a lot right now. i promise i’m not this weepy all the time. ❞