…..Alieenae looked off into the distance reminiscing about her life, just thinking about how far she had come since the night of the fire. She slowly stood up from the swing and called to Goliath "Come on boy let's go inside and figure out what we are going to do today" she called softly to wake the slumbering dog. Goliath had grown even taller over the past year, now that he was almost 2 and she 13 they were both officially teenagers, well Goliath was in dog years. Goliath responded with a quick thump of his tail on the porch and they both headed inside, Alieenae disposed of the cups by magic and went upstairs to change out of her pajamas. She put on her ripped jeans, a long black tee, and a red ruffled skirt over the jeans, her black vans, and her hat which she never left behind. "Come on boy I guess we can go practice crucioing giant spiders in the woods and then maybe we'll….." Alieenae never finished her sentence, a huge engulfing pain ran through her body, she cried out in pain and fell to her knees on the ground. It was the intruders spell, every time an intruder came into the reach of the spell, the caster was warned and would then apparate to a specific site, and the intruder would automatically be apparated to the same site a minute later. The pain subsided as quickly as it came and Alieenae sprang to her feet grabbed her long, slightly tattered cloak and put on goliath's black collar. Alieenae quickly apparated both of them to the pre-chosen forest site.
The forest site was a wide circular clearing near the edge of her 'property'. The trees bent low over the clearing, casting long shadows on the ground and speckling the light on the ground. Alieenae and Goliath slipped silently into the shadows and awaited the arrival of their 'guest'. It didn't take too long, about 30 seconds later there was a loud roar, the trees shook violently and as soon as it had started, it stopped. There, in the middle of the clearing was a very confused girl. She looked about Alieenae's age and had on black tights, a black knee-length skirt, a ruffled black blouse, black combat boots and a long black cape, her hair was pitch black and tied in a blood red ribbon. She quickly looked around "Okay, I know that an intruder's alarm brought me here and I know that some one is here waiting for me, now who are you and what are you doing in the Lestrange's woods with an intruders alarm?" The girl spoke loud and clear. Very impressive, thought Alieenae, she figured it out already. But deep down Alieenae was slightly worried, who were these Lestranges? She had always assumed that no one owned the woods, but this girl was confirming her worst nightmare. Suddenly the girl turned around and faced Alieenae and yelled out "CRUCIO." "Avantra" Alieenae deflected the unforgivable curse and the girl was instantly trapped inside a large clear bubble, unbreakable by any spell. "Whose there? Show yourself" the girl cried out, obviously furious about being trapped by her own spell. Alieenae stepped out of the shadows but kept her hood low so you could not see her face at all, "My name is not important to you, however for your safety you had better tell my your name" Alieenae calmly replied. "Well if you must know my name is Nalini and you had better have a good reason for being in the Lestrange's woods" the girl replied curtly. There was that name again, Lestrange. "Well Nalini, I just have one question for you." Alieenae replied "Who are the Lestranges?" "Who are the Lestranges?" Nalini repeated "The Lestranges are a highly thought of, pure blood family" then with a slightly malicious grin she added "oh yeah and they are all death eaters." Alieenae was shocked, excited, and slightly fearful; if this girl was telling the truth she had been so close to death eaters all this time, she could have gotten to know a family of death eaters, really known what had happened to her father. But this girl could be lying, Alieenae thought of one way to know for sure, if the Lestranges really were death eaters than this girl would have to be a death eater because no way would a real death eater let some one get away with the whereabouts of their house if they were not also a death eater. "Okay, well if the Lestranges really are death eaters than that must mean you are one too, so show me the dark mark." Alieenae demanded. "Okay, well than here you go" Nalini responded and rolled up her sleeve to her elbow and exposed a dark mark on her forearm. "Well than I guess I had better let you go" Alieenae stated. Nalini looked at her bewildered "Let me go! Why? I mean I would like to go and all but why let me go? I could send about 5 or 6 death eaters over here to KILL you why should you let me go?" Nalini blurted out this statement so fast it was pretty hard to follow. "Well if you must know" Alieenae said and hitched up her own sleeve to her elbow and exposed another dark mark on her forearm. "Oh my gosh!" Nalini cried "another death eater in the woods, but how? I mean the Lestranges were sure to have known you were here." " Well let's just say I keep myself very well hidden" said Alieenae remembering all the curses and spells she had put up to keep her location unknown. "Decantasa" Alieenae said using the counter curse to free Nalini from her bubble prison. "Thanks" said Nalini, picking herself up from where she had fallen out of the bubble. "You have got to come see the Lestranges, they will be ……." Nalini was interrupted by Alieenae "NO" Alieenae said firmly "My location cannot be known." "But why" Nalini questioned "you would get along so great with the Lestranges" Alieenae saw the pleading look in Nalini's eyes and decided to bargain with Nalini "Before I decide anything, tell me how many people live with the Lestranges and their names and ages." Alieenae said sternly. "Okay well there's Roldolhfus and Bellatrix Lestrange their around 30 and married, their daughter Elladrid Lestrange she's 13, Me and I'm 13, and occasionally Cameron and Antonin Dolhov come to visit, Cameron is 13 and Antonin is 15, so really only 4 people live at the Lestrange's household and they are all death eaters." Nalini responded seriously. "Okay well I don't want you to tell anyone I live here except Elladrid Lestrange for she I believe is your best friend and I don't think you could help but telling her, so you may bring her here to this clearing at any time, I'll know you are here and come, but I repeat tell no one else of this encounter besides Elladrid Lestrange" Alieenae spoke in a stern serious voice for her location was a serious matter. "Okay well I'll probably be bringing Ella here later this evening is that okay?" asked Nalini. "Sure" Alieenae responded. Then she gently put down her hood to reveal shoulder length, jagged edged, red hair, her piercing gray eyes and slightly pale skin. "You might want to know one other thing" Alieenae said. And then quietly turned around and said "Goliath you may come out now" Suddenly Goliath stepped into view and silently lay down beside Alieenae. Nalini took a step back, tripped over a root, and fell onto the ground, she quickly scrambled back up and Alieenae laughed lightly. "Yeah I thought you would react like that." Alieenae said grinning. "Wow that is a BIG dog" Nalini stuttered slightly and Alieenae could tell she was slightly scared. "Okay you can leave now but remember tell only Elladrid Lestrange of this encounter, no one else!" Alieenae said seriously. "Yeah, only Ella I know but I just want to know two more things" Nalini said inquisitorially "What is your name and how old are you?" "My name is Alieenae Sylviana Crouch and I'm 13 years old, this dog is Goliath he's a great dane and he is almost 2 years old now." Alieenae quickly responded "and now you and I must depart so you can come back with Elladrid some time tonight or tomorrow but remember what I have told you." Alieenae responded and then quickly added "and oh yeah, you can try to look through every data base in the world and will never find any record of my parents being married, or that I even exist." "Goodbye Nalini" Alieenae said, and then before Nalini could say anything she apparated herself and Goliath home and left poor Nalini staring confused at an empty space.