#whoever!!!

[cceruleans]

location: the woolworth building bar @hcll-bound

How did he find himself in this situation? There's a woman beside him draped in diamonds, and the other is draped in pearls, and he's certain that a single diamond or pearl would be enough to pay for rent for a few weeks. "Me?" He asks to the question of who he is. "Literally a nobody, ma'am," he responds, shrugging a little. How had this happened? One moment he was at the bar, tugging at his bow tie again, and then the next, he's talking about something called an equities portfolio. He makes eyes with someone who looks a little sympathetic, begging for help.

[pure-stephenson-blog]

Visitors

Seth was trying to balance fatherhood and work. Though he took a paternity leave to help Katie and spend time with Katie, he still came in a few hours a day to help his cousin, knowing he was overwhelmed with the business and Romilda. But on this day, he happened to run into the wrong Nott. Xavier and Rabastan were tearing through the office, looking for any signs of the couple. Luckily, he had gone into Seth’s office because Theo and Romilda had gone out for lunch. They should have been back soon, and at least their fathers were distracted with Seth.  

Xavier’s wand was pressed to Seth’s neck, yelling into his face, while Rabastan went through the filing cabinet, looking for any sign of where they were staying. But Seth kept his head, both metaphorically and physically. He knew that it would cause more harm than good if they were to hurt him and get his side of the family involved to defend his honour. “I don’t know where he is,” he kept repeating, louder than necessary so if Theo heard, he’d know to get Romilda and get out. “I don’t know where they are, they’ve been out all day. They live in London, if they’re not there, I don’t know where they are.”