Birthday challenge number one for His Most Faithful Servant Forum at exactly 100 words. Set during Deathly Hallows
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It was unbecoming of a Malfoy to shake like this, but Lucius still was as he gazed down at the mess. White was now red which leached into the dirt around the pond. He should not have been wasting so much time with the creature: The peacock flock might have lived in the manor since his parents' marriage, but it was still only a bird.
Then why?
His eyes flicked to the bite wounds in the creature's neck.
Eyes closed he let out a tense breath. Who knew who the identity of the next victim of his Lord and Nagini?