MOONLIT HORIZONS – Chapter 30

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its been a long time in coming, almost a year, but I got sidetracked and lost all inspiration for any writing of any kind, but I'm back now, so lets see what I can think up this time around. Sory its so short, thought I'd ease myself back into it gently…

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"I had a dream, Anna." Remus murmured, his eyes closed, revelling in the soft strokes of Anna's hand against his forehead.  "Do you think Edea's mad?"

"Mad?" Anna raised an eyebrow. "Mad how?"

"I don't know, mad mad. You know? Insane."

"I don't think so.  Why?" Anna sat up and pulled a glass of pumpkin juice towards her from the table.

"No, nothing, it means nothing. I was just curious… I…"

"Raise your sword and fight, mighty warrior!" Sirius gestured incredulously, walking into the dimly lit room "People seriously want heroics here?" he sighed  "I've learned a lot in recent years, and one of them is heroics nearly never pay in profits.  Why does everybody expect me to suddenly pull on a dashing black cape and… oh... am I interrupting something clandestine here?"

"Not at all." Remus smiled faintly, "Snape getting you down?"

"Everybody is getting me down." Sirius fell into a chair, looking exhausted. "I've been awake for 48 hours trying to find something, someone, some way of getting Edea out of this alive, and each time I think of something, its just as stupid as the idea before."

"You're not alone in this you know.  We're all here to help." Anna reached out to Sirius, putting a hand over his.  "Anything at all, we're ready for it."

"Oh yes I know, I know, that's all I ever get from everybody 'we're here for you Sirius, we're sending a prayer up to heaven for you Sirius, what's on your mind Sirius' blah blah blah.  It's not helping Edea though is it? How on earth am I going to get her back? There's nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing I can do." Sirius grumbled.

Remus stretched in his chair, he hated to see his friend in such pain.  "Lets look at this objectively.  We don't know where Edea is being held. So first of all we must find out where she is and how heavily she is being guarded.  And where are we going to get that information? By someone who's well into Voldemort's inner circle…"

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"NO. NO. No. No. No!" Draezyc shook her head. "Under what circumstances do you expect me to go back there begging HIS indulgence to find that piece of Auror scum?"

"Please Draezyc, you're all we have." Anna asked calmly

"No." Draezyc turned away. "She… That THING put me behind bars for something I did not do. Trail or no trial.  Do you hear the silence of regret for this? Because I do. There's not a shred of regret there from her, and as far as I'm concerned, until there IS regret she won't be getting anything from me."

Sirius bowed his head, knowing very well that nothing he said could change that.

"Will the tales of terrors never end?" Remus mused. "The only way we can stop any of this is for Edea to be taken back, and alive."

"Those ivory gates in the sky… They're calling us all, and I don't want to jump the queue by going in that lion's den for a purpose that isn't even mine." Draezyc's eyes glowed in the dim light.  "I've got echoes of tragedy carved on my soul, I don't want any more."