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Set during the First War against Voldemort and shortly after Severus turns spy.
The sickening stench of rotting flesh hits him the moment he walks through the door. It makes him want to get on his knees and bring up everything he has eaten recently, but he doesn't do that he keeps on walking.
He has no idea where the smell comes from and he doesn't want to know either.
If he had a choice to be anywhere else in the world, then he would be there already, but the Dark Lord summoned him and no one ignores being summoned by the Dark Lord.
He has only been to Lestrange Manor a handful of times even that was too much for him.
Severus isn't the only Death Eater who hated it when meetings are held there are the only one who hated its owners. . More than a few Death Eater were twisted and sadistic, but Bellatrix, Rodolphus and to a certain extent Rodolphus younger Rabastan took it to a whole new level.
It doesn't take him long to find those summoned and the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord doesn't acknowledge his arrival and he's uncertain whether that's a good thing or not.
Bellatrix is at the Dark Lord's side like a faithful dog willing to die to protect its master and whether she feels that way out of true loyalty or madness no one will ever know.
Severus goes and stands near Lucius because he is the sanest one there. Once it would have been out of friendship, but that withered away and died a while back at least for Severus anyway. Like everything else, Lucius remains blissfully unaware that his one time friend hates his guts.
He stands upright and composed through the Dark Lord rant about the filth infecting the Wizarding World. Severus feels disgust that once he had eagerly listened to these words before.