Author's note:I own nothing but my plot. also today is my birthday in case anyone wanted to know.
January 2, 1989, 1:00 AM, Faversham at Pendragon's Cove, Wyvern Estate
The house was still for a moment; everyone had left, and there was only her left in the house. A small hoot as she opened her bedroom window.
"Such a good and smart owl you are Atlas; you knew to wait till I was alone so we could finish one more detail before I go to bed.
Pulling out of her bag, something secret not even Lola knew completely about. Disrupt dots timed knockout gas.
"Since I'm alone with just you? I can give you instructions; the disrupt dots need to be set off in Dumbledore's office; it should nullify every magical item in there, my own version of magic emp. Then it will melt the ones specifically that are meant to track Harry or bind someone or something to Dumbledore's control. That should free Fawkes from his binding to Dumbledore. Once Fawkes comes here? I can send you on regular jobs and fewer espionage ones. I don't want anyone to hurt my beautiful, strong owl; when you get back, you should meet Hedwig; I think you'd like her."
Atlas hooted and clicked his beak, and I understood him like anyone does their familiar once the bond starts.
"I'm not going to risk you against the likes of Filch's cat, tamed Thestral, or anything else just hovering around Hogwarts for this mission. Fawkes is essentially your brother in arms. you are in charge of bringing him back here so he can rest and recuperate decades of forced enslavement. Then set forth his part of the plan to set down the time knockout gas that was set for Sunday the seventh at eight at night." anyone else would be nervous get this done behind her team's back. But I already knew what was going to happen and accepted that reality coming to pass.
One of her most brilliant inventions was making something that seems inconsequential, like lotion-like liquid slime; it's even labeled special lotion. It gets in every nook and cranny of any building it's dropped in. the potion slime at its base can be used for a lot more than I planned. Right now, it's only being used to make sure that everyone in the castle is sleeping thoroughly while the rest of us go to where the last ward stone keeping Avalon out of the country. As well as the ritual that needs to be done. We need no interference or anyone seeing what we are doing.
Neither Sam or Lola knows she had it with her or even knew it existed. Mainly because I hadn't submitted the patent for this particular invention. I came up with it, and while I have tested it before with willing participants, all of this was done while Lola had been on an extensive training mission. When we were twelve before, I spent every living minute making sure that she would live another day. I knew that they would tell me that it would be dangerous to use something that isn't extensively tested hundreds and hundreds of times .When I know what it's capable of.
A liquid slime that seems near alive, that can seep into the walls and floors, inconspicuous to everyone, that would release sleeping gas so potent it would last until six the following day, even for the most insomniac of people.
"Now be safe Atlas once we are done; you'll be in charge of letters, and trust me, you and Hedwig will be ruling the roost with speed and strength alone."
"But Fawkes will be used for emergencies and pranks."
Clicking his beak with an indignant hoot.
"Because Atlas, you can't flame me out of a kidnapping or heal me in a pinch. He can hide things anywhere and stay undetected and can survive if someone gets a murder trigger. Fawkes will not be your competition or rival."
Hoot!
"Atlas, don't you dare. I swear you two will get along like a house on fire; you'll see, I promise."
Atlas clicked his beak placated for now with the package of disrupt dots to release.
January 2, 1989, 1:45 PM, Faversham at Pendragon's Cove, Wyvern Estate
Selene's Perspective
Selene smiled as she could transport the entire building and land, asking the elves to make sure nothing was broken and carefully transporting Lord Longbottom. As well as making sure that the location of Longbottom Manor and the surrounding area doesn't even look like it I've turned up, or a giant whole appears
"Augusta?" As I turned to her, amazed as I pulled her in front of my home and Pendragon Cove.
"Frank and Alice are upstairs. Mimi and Doris can show you the path to their room, but I wish to ask you to watch out for Luna. I have some negotiations, old friends, a neutral old noble family to win over to Avalon's side."
"You owe me, Selene, at least tell me a time to expect you at? I don't want your daughter to be worried that you won't be coming back suddenly."
"I should be back not later than four in the afternoon, one of my wayward apprentices in tow. The other one sent word she'll be late; today's business is running longer than expected."
"Oh?"
"Overeager and ambitious put the mission above herself and her well-being."
"Sounds like you when I was teaching relic charms spells that came out of Macedonia, some of the first spells ever created. You couldn't wait to devour the spells and try them out before I fully translated them."
"Fine, I'll have one of the elves make sure they don't bypass the ward line of this city while sitting by my son and daughter-in-law."
January 2, 1989, 1:30-1:45 PM Luminous Cafe, In the City of Oxford
Katherine's Perspective
Knowing that we had picked up enough of the wardstones for the time being, though, knowing that Lola and Harry will be picking up the lion's share minus one tomorrow. At least after the meeting with Gringotts, so they won't even get into it until tomorrow. The last thing on the agenda and the something Katherine was dreading only because she didn't want to bring Hermione with her. But knew that she had the solution on her and doing it now would be the best time as any, knowing that Selene was dealing with Mrs. Longbottom and wouldn't be done for a few hours last she checked, meaning collectively as a group would need to delay this meeting that might take the rest of the day. They had lunch, casting a quick privacy spell with a barely noticeable flourish at the bench.
"Hermione, we're done with the stone hunt so far for today. We can go straight back to the home base … or we can make contact with the other ally we need to ensure Avalon's smooth transition."
"Wait a minute? Aren't you in trouble for overextending yourself yesterday?"
"I don't need to turn time back to do this, and you can act as a distraction for where we are going next."
"Distraction?!" Hermione looked aghast and offended at the statement, and she would feel the same way.
"We are going to Greengrass manor." A shocked look crossed her face.
"You can keep Daphne and very sick Astoria busy by just being a kid and just being yourself. Considering Daphne's likes to read fairytales and about any subject she can find in her grasp, you'll be in good company. She's kept socially isolated as many pureblood girls are by tradition, with her siblings being the socialization she has. I wish I could join, honestly." She said with a nod and continued.
"I have a deal for them that would make them more than willing to do anything they can to those who give them the solution."
"Bribery, really?!" She raised an eyebrow; she looked like she was waiting for an explanation considering in the plans; she never mentioned this aspect.
"No. It's a peace offering to save their youngest. Nothing is free, not even magic. Magic comes at a price even if you don't feel it right away or even realize it's happening."
Hermione almost seemed to wonder what Katherine knew, but she also knew that what Katherine said already wasn't wrong; this is a big ordeal and having two-thirds of the aisle on your side is better than the alternative. Remembering even in her original timeline that the Greengrass family had a lot of sway over the gray and neutral families within pureblood society. And on the other side of the family, the secondary cadet, by creating this scenario, there can actually be long-lasting change regardless of a government control shift.
"Alright, I will come with you if for no other reason than I am curious if your claims are true."
"You are hoping so, so your own belief about the house rivalry being so toxic that it stopped a potentially strong friendship you should have had since your first year."
"That too," her face slight flush on her face, her mind wondering if she was that obvious. Noticed the look on her face. She decided to answer the question she was about to say.
"You are not that predictable; it's what I would have wanted if I didn't have my sister by my side. It's hard to find people who are old souls like we are," she said with a nod, silently holding her hand, so they could go to the following location, which was Greengrass manor. Look up to the rows of townhouses that stood in front of the main street. Knowing that the Greengrass manor was in the proper middle of the city of Liverpool, surrounded but not cramped by their allies. Knew there was a pocket of at least thirty to forty ancestral neutral, gray, and dark leaning families' that lived in the city. The only family truly dark was the Lee family.
Even then, I cast over Hermione an illusion spell, so it looks like she's wearing robes, and her nose was turned up to pull off the snotty entitled pureblood princess that wears off once we are allowed into their home. Knowing to be safe rather than sorry. Especially since Hermione didn't have her wand, and I've had no time to teach her any wandless magic yet. She kept her near me as we walked away from the apparition; it was a shock she really recovered from quickly when Selene was at the front door of Greengrass manor with the Lord and Lady Greengrass greeting her personally. As she turned and saw approaching the front door.
January 2, 1989, 2:00 PM Verdant Knoll, In the City of Liverpool
"Hello Lord and Lady Greengrass, how are you on this beautiful afternoon?" She said with a friendly wave. The Lord and Lady seemed stiff but still polite, both of them suspicious strange woman they didn't invite into their home showing up out of the blue.
"Sorry, we're not allowing solicitation today." Lord Greengrass said with a stern tone; the nearly in his mid-thirties brunette, who is Selene wasn't a well-trained knight of Avalon, would have been nervous to speak to such an imposing figure at nearly twice her height. his wife closely at his side, trying to conceal the wand she held in case things got ugly
"I'm not soliciting," flashing the crest of Avalon guard on her right breast pocket. To their immediate shock, she knew that older purebloods were taught about that crest of arms even though talks even educating others about Avalon are banned in England outright. Especially if your family has the title of ancient or noble to their names, considering Avalon was the one who bestowed those titles upon them.
"My name is Selene Lovegood; I apologize for coming to your home unannounced. but I know I have a solution to your family's longstanding problem that affects your youngest daughter currently." Though at this moment, the green grass is had a look of incredulous and slight ire at what was being said since the blood curses in Astoria's condition are in need to know basic information; no one outside Family members even knew that the blood curse was going on I had been affected her family for nearly three centuries now.
All of them turned at the noise of two people coming towards the home. A young woman in her mid-twenties and a girl with an upturned nose and who looked like the atypical pureblood heiress in tow appeared hand in hand.
"Well, look at what the Kneazles dragged in," nodding to each of their girls in turn, knowing that the girls were going to try to settle this without her going against the plan again.
"Oh, you think I didn't plan on you talking to them, duckie?" She whispers low enough that only the girl could hear them and not the Greengrass's themselves. As they let them into the foyer and Katherine silent dropped the illusion charm on her.
"Sorry, these two are my apprentices. Don't mind them; I couldn't leave the younger of two on her somewhere unattended." Smoothly producing a believable lie for a reason for, Hermione was here; her somewhat curly hair was notable, but her eyes were glimmering was curiosity about the home so far.
"That girl can't have started Hogwarts; there's no way she's an apprentice to you, miss." The way Mrs. Greengrass said that the outburst was expected, this has to be one of the reasons Katherine and Lola took an aging potion at once upon coming to this time to allow them to do what they needed to do.
"She was too bright not to train personally, and I have no doubt your parents and grandparents reminded you that Avalon practices, correct? The Avalonian knights can and have their apprentices on as soon as the first spark of magic was noted in our book. A commanding officer such as myself usually being tasked with their tutelage. It's standard practice even now." Mrs. Lovegood said. There was a tone to her, the way she carried herself; the Greengrass' couldn't help but understand and allow it
"Still, the girl can't stay here while we discuss the particulars. it's a bit sensitive and emotional, the same for your older apprentice; we would like to speak with you directly and no one else about this matter."
"This is a delicate matter, and as the superior officer."
Pointing at Selene's coat of arms of Avalon.
"You obviously are the one who we need to speak to, and anyone else, it's a superfluously hanger-on." There wasn't disdain but caution considering so many people knowing about their family situation was ideal but having so many people involved seemed to make them feel cornered and under pressure. which Katherine and Hermione they both Took their cue and happy obliged stepping away to let them handle this privately while they were shuffled off elsewhere by two house-elves.
The den wasn't exactly what Selene imagined from the couple, but it made sense considering that, like many neutral and light families alike, they put on a facade of cold indifference, but their homes gave away the truth of who they were. And the den, obviously an office for Lord Greengrass, was air and well decorated and inviting. Not cold and imposing as the man tried to make himself seem.
"Mrs. Lovegood, well, I can see that your crest is authentic precisely as it was described and drawn in the paintings, we have on the walls; how can I be assured that you are not just trying to goad my family into something or try to trick us." Sorry for the suspicion but Hundreds of healers and con artists for the last three hundred years have claimed that they can cure our family of this blood curse that has plagued us for so long! How can I be assured that not only are you not lying, but this is some overarching plot?"
"I can give you an unbreakable vow right now that the cure in my hands is not only legitimate but will in forever release your family from the blood curse you have been saddled with and cure your daughter of the blood curse that is slowly killing her by the time, she's thirty.
"If you have such a cure, what's the catch, I have no doubt there is a catch. you wouldn't give it to us for free
"For that, you are right; the Kingdom of Avalon is about to come back and take complete control and dissolve the British government as it currently stands. And place their government to its rightful place at the seat of power. Well, certain things are going to stay in place, such as the Wizengamot. Where can you make suggestions and bring about complaints or things that need to be adjusted? The minister of magic is about to be overturned entirely and taken out of power outright, and specific systems are going to be outright overhauled. It would be nice if you could bring on board, your allies and peers when the time is asked of you to get behind the project.
"What you want is us to back the rightful government taking its place and having no arguing against and making our side see the benefits of having Avalon back in power. "
"Yes, but I do have something else to ask of your family: a vow to never discriminate against, be prejudiced against another magical being or a human being ever again, that as long as they bear your name, they will try to be open and understanding of others."
"You can't ask something of that like of us!"
"Never forget," she said while sounding grave and making sure that this was non-negotiable
"Your family was given this blood curse because the head of your family at the time was utterly racist, discriminatory, and prejudiced against new magical blood? Killing the whole family of a little girl just for association with his children. He hated non-magical-born children, even more so non-magical themselves."
"The vow is to prevent your line from suffering from another blood curse on your family."
"We can't negotiate…"
"Lord and Lady Greengrass? are you now or currently prejudiced or discriminatory towards non-magicals and non-magical born children?"
"No! We are one of the few who employ them in our apothecaries; most of the potion masters and potion inventors are muggle-borns. Giving them fair wages considering we owe a lot of success to their innovation in the field."
"Please don't use the term muggle-born. By the end of the year, that word will be considered discriminatory and punishable by fines."
"Thank you for the warning; it will take time to use the terms non-magical and non-magical children."
"You can use the phrase nomaj like the yanks do since it is more preferred as well."
"We'll take it under consideration now about the cure?"
"You know the terms for me giving you the cure. I would need a magical vow for those terms and to keep in effect for the next five centuries just to be sure."
"That seems excessive!"
"So does a curse that has lasted this long. That is currently killing your youngest daughter on the actions of an ancestor long since dead." She said with a raised eyebrow that shut down there protesting. As she pulled a piece of paper, not parchment. Bullet point fountain pen in hand and spun it quickly in her fingers to the shock and amazement of the married couple.
"Now let's set down terms and conditions for me to give you the cure to your family's curse. This going to take a while, to be honest, I'm actually grateful you asked my apprentices to leave and sit in the living room with your children. I wasn't looking forward to having to explain and go over how to make a magically binding contract as well as how to handle negotiations. Much less how to cover it for the younger of the two. since the intricacies and runes might be a bit too much to follow, I've only had her learning under me for less than six months; I'm supposed to ease her into these kinds of things." She said a large grin rising on her face oddly making Lord and Lady Greengrass feel at ease.
"Now let's get this started, shall we?"
As Selene, sweet-talking the Greengrass patriarch and matriarch was in their private den. Ironing out details and verifying everything as well as showing their cure. They were seated in the living room. As she was stuck in the room with Daphne, Astoria, and the heir of the family, Edward, who was twenty-one. Who had been watching her since she had arrived with Hermione, considering the sketchiness of how we arrived as? Right after Selene and they noticed I removed the illusion charm right after we were let inside the house. The halls were twisting, and the manor was a lot bigger than I expected, considering the exterior look of the townhouse, but magic is a wondrous thing sometimes. Noting that there was someone who seemed to watching their every move, they were invisible, dogging each step they took, knowing Hermione wouldn't even realize they were surveyed, considering this Hermione was never an unintended soldier who killed people.
"Mr. Eddy, Miss Dappy, Miss Tori, we have guests here for you." The first elf is a very clean pillowcase that had some fancy embroidery at the end with the other.
As the elves led us into what must be the family living room/playroom for the kids in the family. As Katherine and Hermione noticed the wall-to-wall books, some toys spread all over the ground and on a few of the end tables. She wouldn't recognize that they were wizarding toys, and in both timelines, she had never been in a fully wizarding home with smaller children, so it wasn't something she ever thought about.
Astoria was on the wizarding version of an iv as it was connected and intravenously pumping into her veins; as they both noticed in going down the rather rudimentary tubing, Astoria looked tiny and fragile. And being spoon-fed by who could only be her older brother eddy... who seemed rather handsome in his early twenties. Dark hair was well-coiffed, and he helped his sickly eight-year-old sister eat her pudding from where they stood.
"Wait, what, no visitors today, please!" Daphne said with tearfully, seeing the strangers in a huff.
"It's alright," Katherine said, giving a calm down motion. The two of them not really looking at one another, and their older brother making sure that his little sisters were safe and weren't having a dip in Astoria's health or that Daphne didn't have another magical outburst.
"We were here with our superior on business. And they are making a deal with your parents about a delicate matter. I promise we won't tell a soul."
Daphne pointed to Hermione and her with a rather scrutinizing look.
"I promise I will never tell anyone or make judgments about either of you
"Who are you?"
"Hermione Granger."
"Granger? Are you related to Hector Dagworth-Granger, the famous Potioneer?" Daphne asked with a tilt of the head, a subtle smile rising on Hermione's face.
"Possibly, you're the second person to ask me that. I have non-magical parents, so I could be distantly related to him." If Daphne cared about her status she didn't seem to.
"Hmmm, fine, come along, Hermione, you can spend time with Astoria and me, it doesn't mean I trust you, but I want to know who this superior of yours is. Aren't you the same age as me?"
Realizing that Hermione was precisely where she needed to be, she sat on the couch as "Eddy" finished with his sister and took the seat next to her
"Edward Greengrass. Charmed," offering his hand, and I gave he place a chaste kiss on as was a pureblood tradition; she looked into his eyes. Reminding herself that they were a bright blue.
"Katherine Zacarias likewise."
"Please tell me your superior isn't upstairs negotiating a betrothal contract between us. since I already made clear to my parents, I'm already seeing someone.
"No, it's a legitimate business arrangement, I admit you're rather handsome," she said while giving him a flirty but not serious smile.
"But trust me, we just aren't meant to be. In fact, in a week's time, you might see me again and remember you said that okay." Noticing now that seat the invisible person being familiar to her wasn't a coincidence when she focused, she knew exactly who was stalking her and Hermione.
"Okay? Sure, I'll keep that in mind," knowing that she had intentionally spooked the guy. but it was also intentional since I need privacy for what I was about to do using a very quick wandless spell on herself and her cousin. her favorite modified notice me not charm.
"Hey, there, big cousin Jacob? Come take a load off with me on my right-hand side? How's Lucinda doing at Hogwarts?" She asked with all the casualness of the weather like she wasn't talking to her missing cousin that had been missing for close to more than five years at this point and she hadn't seen since she was five years old, four if she was being generous and honest, she was four years old the last time anyone indeed saw him. Hermione, who had since we arrived in the manor, been absorbing everything, she had come across like an eager sponge, listening to Daphne talk. Confusion at the familiarity she used in her voice had her even more curious, never mentioning any extended family with magic.
"Wait, what, you can't be! Little Kat! She's only!" Jacob, his voice lowered so only she can hear. Jacob was the wisest of my cousins since I had more than a few on my father's side and Jacob and Lucinda where my only cousins who had magic, stubborn and knowledge thirsty, glutinous as all hell in their pursuit of knowledge. Every time we saw him that I could remember, he had nose deep in a book or ancient tome. He knew how old I was and that I shouldn't look nearly twenty; he recognized me because I have the family birthmark on my left hand; if you weren't looking for it, you wouldn't notice it. A noticeable beauty mark in the shape of a star on our left hands. That we inherited from our mothers.
"Oh, I am, don't tell my parents what I'm doing here! They think I'm still home and getting ready to go back to school, and if they know I'm not? My plan will fall apart, and I can tell Lucinda where you actually are since I know she is still looking for you." She had shocked him in silence, "and I'm shocked you're in deep-cover mission MMI6. Was this through? I get that the vaults are technically a threat to British national security, and you were recruited, but jeez, cousin, we got some higher magical authorities we answered to." She gave him a look considering MMI6 were a branch of the International Mages Police, one of many since they specifically deal with grave national magic disasters or preventing calamities and disrupting significant crimes. Infiltration, negotiation, espionage, and everything that can entail.
She was proud of him, but his organization that, if I remember right, had a base in the open seas five miles south of Britain. And the base of operations moves while staying away from the shore. Most of the organizations are very clued into the situation. Primarily if they recruit from Britain directly as the recruits can't currently live at the secure official base, so it's a convoluted system with a British office for training and a way to operate here and on the main base without many hiccups since they were a subdivision Avalon knights acting as the royal spies.
"We work for the same people, just in different divisions." With a nod flashing her crest of Avalon knighthood, she and Lola used charms to hide so they aren't spotted and found. But that's what caused my cousin's jaw to hit the polished floor. Considering the patch denoted my rank in the knights, it was nothing to sneeze at.
And they say that families that go into the same line of work only happen in fiction!
Then again, I know Jacob always wanted to be a curse breaker or a hit wizard. Something in the line that was helping people or solving mysteries was at the forefront. I could tell even as a kid a job like this was kind of perfect.
Though I know after this, I'm going to retire honorably with commendations and title and land for my efforts. That doesn't mean I won't be innovating and inventing for the rest of my life. It's just too enjoyable for me not to do.
That's my path, and if I bust my hump to get there with as few problems as possible, I will.
"Still, say Dumbledore showed his cards by kicking you out when you found the vault's existence and the danger they pose, and instead of thanking you and your research and the warnings you gave, he expelled you for 'endangering' everyone."
"So, what are you doing at the Greengrass estate? Are they dark or something?" She was legitimately wondering what her cousin was doing here, and now that she had an idea of what he might be doing exactly but the now that she had seen him, she could keep tabs on his life or that
"No, they aren't dark; the same can't be said about the secondary cadet branch of the Greengrass family. I'm here because I'm in deep cover getting intel on some of the darker families that live in the area. When I was expelled from Hogwarts, Edward basically stuck his neck out for me. They helped me get reestablished elsewhere for schooling, then eventually get me a job. You know my parents; they're not hotshots like yours. They already got it hard enough, and theirs no more schools in England outside Hogwarts. So, I had to make do with the connections they have. After they saw my research skills and charisma for themselves."
"Huh, glad you're not stuck in the castle's wards or something; even I couldn't see you anymore! Thought you'd died or gone pitch black dark. No, you just became the perfect infiltrator," she said with a smirk.
"Where are my manners?!"
"Jacob, I should introduce my good friend Hermione Granger, the future brightest witch of our age. Voracious scholar and future advocate for those whose voices are being silenced."
"Seriously, Katherine, there's no way I'm keeping the title as long as you are going to school with me." Hermione harshly whispered as an elf brought out food for Daphne Greengrass and little Astoria, who had an elf near her, monitoring her illness.
"Trust me when I say one day soon, I'll be trial and error at whatever I attempt just like everyone else," Katherine said with a shrug of her shoulder.
"You got real wisdom and knowledge. I'll just be the mad sorceress who produced a car that runs on water and doesn't harm the planet. Something to reinstate the layer of ozone that we are losing." She said with a raucous laugh at what she said, to their amazement and the wistful shake of the head from Jacob.
"Oh yes, you're my baby cousin, not a doubt in my mind now. The dreamer, the schemer. The overachieving toddler I remember." Her cousin gave her a smile.
"If necessary, this overachiever is your superior at could function as your commanding officer."
"Look here, missy!"
"Now is not the time Jacob; I need you to quickly give a message to your superiors I wasn't sure they were informed that the Avalonian government is making one final attempt to end the unlawful magical British government?" He shook his head it wasn't a shock they were probably waiting to be sure the ward was down to let them make their move, and they would need their help.
"Before dawn, Monday morning, make sure your whole division is there for a briefing as well as back up for the knights since it's going to be a chore and half."
"Really, are you sure?"
"I swear on my honor as a Paladin Knight 1 Star First Class. Be ready."
"If you still don't believe me? Then you won't believe the woman I came in with? my CO is the legend herself, Selene Papillion!"
"You're kidding!"
"See for yourself when she comes down, the reason you bosses were even able to make a base here, the prodigy who solved Morgana's enchanting dilemma that stumped master enchanters for centuries, when she was ten years and took a possibly indefinite mission to restore the rightful government of Britain when she was eleven years old !" that left him speechless unable to say anything else he recast the imperceptible spell on himself reapplying the muffler spell on his feet
"You know, baby cousin, I'm going to stick around here for another few days or so since that's part of my assignment there's been rumors that the Lee family hasn't actually stopped their rather dark activities, and my agency has been compiling my report recently hopefully if what you say is true. I'll have as much evidence to put as many people away." What he wanted to say was clear and just something that anyone who is even remotely associated with the Avalonian government knows. Avalon is known for punitive punishments; they don't take racist and blood supremacists well, and it was clear from the very beginning they're going to use England as a perfect example of what crossing them or trying to overwhelm or override their judgment leads to.
With a shy wave, Jacob went back to his quiet vigil instead, now moving around the house instead of focusing on us.
With their name signed on the dotted line in that flash, but the contract was valid, creating a quick copy for them to have on their own, and quickly, she rolled up the official copy and put it in her bag for safekeeping.
"Pleasure doing business with you, Cordelia, Walter."
"No, the pleasure is ours here; thank you for saving our daughter and our family."
"As long as you keep your end of the bargain, I should be able to continue."
Now pulling out a potion vial from her bag that sparkled a very light blue while being incredibly purple.
"Now, I need you to take the entire vial without stopping. I'll have your children all drink some of the elixirs as well. In order for a blood curse of this magnitude that survives so many years to be completely eradicated, it needs to be removed from the how did the family, which will spread through the cadet branches as well, but it also needs to be drunk by the direct affected those who have direct genetic links to the curse as well and who are currently afflicted by the curse. It orders for it to be gone for good all of three of your children need to drink as well as yourself ."
"Fine how bad could be?" Opening up the topper it smelled like death and before he gagged, he drank the potion quickly as his wife dispelled the air of that awful spell his body shone a violent orange and then came off him. He seemed to be relieved of burden not even realizing he had been holding on to. Gave him three more vials of the potions in his hands.
"Now let decursify your children, shall we?"
Walking down to the living room was a sight with Katherine almost looking like a guard for the children and the oldest was sitting near but doing something the little girls where chatting away.
"Edward, Daphne, and Astoria please drink this."
"Father?"
"Please just listen to me and follow what I am saying." All of them without any more instruction all of them gagged on the smell and quickly drank the potion and the effect was clear as the violent orange shone out of the three of them with Astoria looking more orange with a tinge red to it as seemed to leave them. Astoria for the first time seemed to breathe easier and start to stand up the color returning to her cheek.
"My work is done here. Astoria, I hope you feel better from now on. Please live your life as you see fit. And don't be afraid to explore the world."
With a wave, the three left the manor and made their way home. Katherine already bracing herself and really unconcerned about the fallout of her actions today.
final note, I wanted to explain about the ranks
Within the Avalonian knights, the ranks are thus so from the highest In The order to the least
Grand five star commander 1st class Sam's father's position he's the head leader of all of them
Grand commander 4 stars second class
Grand Knight first class 3 stars
Knight Templar first class 2 stars Selene's rank that she obtained before starting her mission at nine being inducted young
Paladin knight first class 1 star Katherine's, Lola, and Sam's rank within the order at any given time theirs only 100 worldwide with this rank
Knight captain
Knights marshal most external agencies are from this rank and below this level of training and battle experience
Knights copper, nickel, steel, bronze, silver, gold, ruby, emerald, diamond, and platinum
Knight auxiliary/ reserves
Squire
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