I was exhausted; the dark lord would not stop talking. He paced back and forth in front of my eyes. My head was spinning, my mouth still tasted of earth as I sat. I could feel the dried blood crusted on my check; my niece was going to pay for that one. I brought my thoughts back to the matter at hand. The Potter brat knew the secret, he knew about the lengths my master had gone to cheat death…would he know about Emma as well? Her face swam into my vision; my master's eyes glowed as he focused on me.
"The auror; she protects the boy?"
"She does my lord."
"She's your sister's child?"
"Yes my lord."
"And her father?"
"He is a filthy mudblood my lord." I said with a swallow. Andromeda's choice still brought shame to me.
"Kill him. Send the message that if your little niece doesn't give up the boy that her mother will die as well."
I smiled at this, through the pain of the nights events. Ted Tonks dead by my hand. No prophecy in the world would keep my niece from protecting the boy over her own family.