Ten years after I began at Hogwarts, Sebastian Sallow is back. And he's Professor Sallow now. He disappeared after the fall of Ranrok and Rookwood, after I lost Professor Fig, and after Ominis and I couldn't keep him from losing himself. But I never...
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::NOPE.::
My instincts take over. In a flawless deflection, my hands grip at the collar of the offender attempting a chokehold and I roll my shoulders in and down, shifting the threat and flipping his body to the ground. I throw him down with an intention of 'depulso' in my gut for an added punctuation of my 'fuck all the way off' point.
From behind, footsteps are approaching and the voice of Headmistress Weasley calls from a short distance "there is no need for that, gentlemen!!"
::Oh I'll be the judge of that, thanks.::
Breathe, Sebastian.
My heart is pounding. My head is spinning with sensory input. The man on the ground breaks into a laugh of genuine amusement. "Well done!" he exclaims in a smooth South American accent that sounds vaguely familiar, "I underestimated you."
::That's an understatement.::
"You see how they grapple like children?" Vannevar says flippantly to Kai who's fist clenches as he returns his bow to the holster on his back. Kai shifts his energy, directing his voice to the man on the ground, and bending over to extend a hand, "is that Braga, my old friend?"
"Brother!" the man proclaims. He takes Kai's forearms in a strong, friendly grip, which is returned in kind.
Vannevar all but spits and physically backs away from the exchange, his face seething with disdain.
April is hugging the man now. She seems a bit stunned, but she is still smiling.
Didn't he just offer to snap my neck?
::Her arms are around bloody everyone, tonight, mate::
At least this one's not bare-chested and more imposing up-close than I could have imagined.
The man is standing too closely to April for my liking. "I have missed the light of your face," he says. She pauses to look at him and replies as she takes him in, "it's good to see you."
::The fuck it is.::
"What are you doing here?" she asks him as she moves towards me, waving at me to come closer. "I'm not entirely sure, myself," he says in his smooth cadence. "What I do know is...too much for now," he says, waving a nonchalant hand.
"Kai!" April calls up to the man-horse towering above her. "Thiago!" she says kindly to the assailant. She guides me towards them both with a hand on my arm, saying "I want to introduce you to Sebastian Sallow."
As I feel a dose of satisfaction at having an inch or two on Braga, some kind of realization sweeps across his face. "Ah haaa!!" he sings, shifting his eyes to April with a curious look of understanding.
