Chapter 1 : Valparaíso
One always feels warm at Valparaíso. Lorcan was calmly eating his breakfast in the patio, while watching the city spread in front of him. Living in Castelobruxo was wonderful, and he liked the lessons and discovering magic, along with his friends. Yet, this little paradise was in his heart forever.
Lysander sat at his brother's side with two cups of hot chocolate. He did not share his brother's love. It was the drawback of living near a big port, one sees a lot of strangers and travellers, but one stays at quay. No matter those colourful houses he could see now, and no matter the view of the forest, he was not interested at all. Lysander was passionate for everything unknown to him. The urge for discovering and exploring was in his blood, after all. Magizoology was a family thing, but Lysander didn't seem to like the subject. He knew how to take care of magical creatures, but he didn't wish to devote his life for it, like the rest of his family. He was more interested in travels, discovering others places, wizards, and simply foreign people. He had the impression of seeing the world through a keyhole, and all he wanted to do was to walk through the door.
"What will you do today, boys?" Luna asked. "Your father and I shall take a Portkey for the Ministry. They need to consult us on a matter of non-regulatory import of Runespoor on the territory."
"Good luck. We don't know yet, mum," Lorcan answered. "It's just the start of holidays, we might rest."
"I'd like to go for a walk," Lysander said.
"Alright, dears, but promise to take care of yourselves?"
Luna and Rolf had met in Great Britain, sometime after the war was over. Their first time together was at the British Ministry, more precisely, for an internship at the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. The keen and bright local examiners had seen the potential held in the two young people. After all, they had set a ferocious competition for a few weeks, to determine who was the most suited for the post.
In the end, neither of them were hired for the internship, but only to win a direct employment. The following romance had been one of the most banal thing in the world, despite Luna's natural tendency for eccentricity.
They had next chosen to live in Chili in order to get closer to the creatures they held most dear.
When Lorcan and Lysander were out in the city, they never were on a simple walk: it was an exploration. They always began by taking the funicular railway, the ascensores. Then, they melted with the pure anarchy of the city. There, everything was a subtle maze made of colourful narrow street and stairs. There was no wizarding district either, the city was too much of a bedlam for that.
However, there was a lot of stairs leading to nowhere in particular, according to Muggles. In fact, they were entrances to a wizarding street, in which the houses' walls were painted, like any other house in the town, but on which the paintings were moving.
I thank Flo'w for helping me correcting this story. If there are still some errors, it's only my fault.
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