Here's a little teaser for the thing Kali and I are working on, which will live over at
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And now I'm going to bed.
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December 31, 1978
Lucius quirked an eyebrow, and then looked unwontedly serious as he raised his glass. "To our future, my friends, and to our new world, which we shall shape to our will. Let us desire everything, and regret nothing." He paused, and looked around the room. Softly and clearly, he continued, "And in doing so, may we always be as well-contented in the company in which we find ourselves as we are tonight."
As the first stroke of midnight rang through the house, Bellatrix laughed a sharp peal, and swallowed her potion, eying Rodolphus as he quickly followed her example. She moved toward him, tongue darting out catlike to lick the corner of his mouth, as if there was a drop there that he might have missed. Meanwhile Lucius, Severus and Narcissa touched their glasses gently to one another, and drank slowly. Regulus alone stared into the bubbling potion, as if there was some answer there that he couldn't quite decipher. Narcissa looked at him quizzically, and as he felt her gaze on him, he looked up, winked, and drank, just as the clock struck for the twelfth time.
And now I'm going to bed.