turn to dust • regulus black

" Regulus stops his walk down the hall to turn around and face her, fidgeting with the skin around his fingernails. He swipes his tongue over his bottom row of his teeth as he thinks. "Is the Black name everything you hoped it to be? Are we as noble as they say?" He asks after a moment of silence.

Adeline let out a breath, listening to the question replay in her head over and over before she responded. "I've barely been given a chance to truly find out."

The two stood a several feet away from each other for a few seconds in silence. Both mysteries to each other, both intriguing in ways neither could explain. "

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In the turn of the 19th century,
in the heat of The First Wizarding War,
in Southeast London,
lay a town called Alnwick Grove.

Adeline Desford- aspiring writer and daughter of wealthy wizarding entrepreneur- in a series of accidental events, meets Regulus Black. The forgotten son of the mysterious Black family. Refusing to let this opportunity pass her by, Adeline finds it best to get as close to the boy as possible for a chance to unravel his secrets and earn a column in The Daily Prophet.

But what she didn't realize was just how dangerous getting close to Regulus Black really was.

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