p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" "Where to first?" Lucy asked after she'd finished her impromptu dancing. Kiran folded his style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "We need to head to the MACUSA Treasury to exchange some No-Maj money for Wizard money, and then we need to stop by the Ilvermorny Registration Building. After that, wherever you want to style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / And so they went to Isolt's Alley and exchanged money. Luckily for them, Kiran carried whatever they had with him- he didn't trust banks, he said- so they didn't need to go get style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / In exchange for one week's food, $150, they got 20 galleons and 1 sickle. Kiran put that into Lucy's pocket and then, they were style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Can I go get my robes while you register me?" Lucy asked. Kiran shrugged and Lucy grinned and kissed him. He cursed in response, and Lucy was gone, off towards Webster's Alley, where was Lopdren's Robes and Wardrobe style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / The inside of Lopdren's was as cottage-y as the outside, with walls of rustic shiplap and floors of quaint style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lopdren himself was a short, old man who was bent and thin, with a big smile and half bald head. "Hello, dearie," he cooed in a broken voice. "For Ilvermorny, I take it?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy smiled sweetly and nodded. Lopdren smiled and took her sizes and returned with three robes, three shirts, two skirts and one pair of pants, one pair of shoes, one pair of gloves, one pair of socks, one scarf, one hat, and one style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How much is this all?" Asked Lucy with a style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Well," Lopdren said. "It's buy two get one free. Each robe is fifteen sickles, each shirt is ten, each skirt is ten, pants are ten, the shoes are twenty, the gloves are five, the socks are five, the scarf is seven, the hat is ten, and the jacket is twenty. All of that includes any extra tailoring."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I have twenty galleons and one sickle," Lucy said with a deep set frown. Lopdren gave a sweet style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "The total would be eight galleons; 137 sickles. There are 17 sickles to a galleons."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Alright," Lucy said. She paid, and then Lopdren began to tailor. She had to try them all on for style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / It was weird to see herself in the uniform. She had been wearing high rise jeans, tighter on the hips and looser as they went down, wrinkling about her shins, an old pink-and-grey flannel on top, and old grey converse. She had to ditch it all and now wore a dark blue button-down shirt made of a satin-like material, a deep, rusty red schoolgirl skirt that reached midway down her dark thighs. Her robes were, for the most part, the same red as her skirt- Lopdren called it cranberry- but it was reversible, the inside the same royal blue as her shirt. Her gloves, socks, shoes, scarf, hat, and jacket were all black material Lucy thought was leather, but was apparently dragonhide. Dragons were real. Lucy was in style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Everything fit perfectly, and Lopdren seemed impressed by Lucy, as if she had actually done something great. Lucy changed back into her clothes and Lopdren handed her her bags. She had just walked out of the shop when Kiran met style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How much did you spend?" he style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Eight galleons."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Eight galleons! How expensive are those clothes? How many did you buy?" Kiran blew style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Three of each-"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Three!"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "But it was buy two get one free!"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran seethed silently for a long moment before grabbing Lucy by the arm and dragging her along. They went next door to Michellana's Book style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Michellana was a thirty year old woman with fuschia hair, emerald robes, and chartreuse leggings. Her auburn hair was long and frizzy, her large eyes were blue and pupiless, and her skin was smooth and nearly orange. She looked like a rainbow; an absolutely insane, loud rainbow. Kiran didn't like her, but Lucy adored style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy got all of her books on a buy-one-get-one-free deal. She got six, but paid for three, and the total turned out to be two galleons. Between clothes and books, Lucy's money was half style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran guessed that a telescope would be at the Astronomy Tower, so they went next door again to a long, stone tower and bought one old, used telescope for one galleon. They went to The Underground Apothecary, a cave-like building in Isolt's Alley, for her potioneer's kit- two more galleons- and were left with seven galleons left and still in need of one wand, one broomstick, and one pet, in that order of style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Luckily, the cashier at the U.A. was kind enough to help them with the broomstick. Her name was Leigh and she had short, black pigtails on either side of her head, each boasting several streaks of neon colors. She was pale and had big, dark eyes, big, dark lips, and a small nose. She wore a corset and tutu, both black, and thigh-high fishnets and clunky heels and had fishnet half sleeves and long, black fingernails, as well as a face full of piercings. She was fifteen and her dad owned the style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Quidditch was played on broomsticks. There were seven players on a team and four balls: the quaffle, what you scored with, two bludgers, which were like dodgeballs, and a snitch, which you tried to find. The positions were Keeper, who guarded the goal posts, Seeker, who searched for the snitch, Beaters, who tried to hit you with bludgers, and Chasers, who tried to score with the quaffle. Each goal is worth ten points and catching the snitch is worth 50, and catching it also ends the game. It's played in the sky and each side has three posts. span style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;"Broomsticks could be found in James' Alley in Kalapowoala's Quidditch Store./spanbr style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / But, first, Lucy and Kiran headed to Chadwick's Alley to find a style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Violetta Beauvais' Wand Shoppe was first. Violetta Beauvais was a short black woman with hips as wide as the door. She had short, sleek hair done up in a curl, and her face was as pretty as it was old. She wore jeans and a shirt, as well as a craftsman's apron. She had to be near a style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Why, looky hear. We gots a pretty little black girl, lookin' all respectable. I'm glad for it, too- mosta you youngins nowadays lookin' like harlots. Nice ta see a black un's one of the covered ones." She spoke with an accent that was mostly Cajun, but had hints of basically everything else. Lucy blinked style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I... Thank you, ma'am."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "An' she's gotta good setta manners! Bless my soul, Lordie, a yank with manners!"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy giggled gently as Violetta grinned at her. "If you don't mind my asking, where are you from? You've got an interesting accent, ma'am."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Violetta laughed. "I's from the French Quarter of Nahlins-" it took Lucy a moment to realize the woman was saying, 'New Orleans'- "But I's been about everywhere in this be-yootaful country. My accent's got a little bit o' it all. And thank you kindly, dearie. Lemme find a wand for you, cutie,"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Violetta hobbled into the back of the store where rows of wands where and returned shortly thereafter. "An' here ya go. As usual, it's a swamp mayhou wood wand with a rougarou hair core, but yours is ten inches and engraved a lil som'im special." With pride, Violetta handed the wand over to Lucy, who marvelled down at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / It was thin and long, sleek and relatively light in color. There were intricate swirls carved into it and it seemed to speak to her. Lucy, for a moment, was alone with this shining stick, until Violetta style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "A No-Maj! I shoutta known, I shoutta. Wave the thang, chiyal! Wave it!"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy blinked and, after a moment, waved the wand. Deep purple sparkles short forth and danced, then swirled in a pattern identical to the ones on her wand. When they subsided, Kiran was white-faced and Violetta was style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Oh, my cherie! Keep it, it's yo's- go 'n lookit the other shops, havin' more n' one wand ain't gon hurt, but you do Violetta one good and don't be buyin' no wand from that damn Quintana."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "For free?" Lucy asked in wonder. Violetta style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Yessum! That was the dang perttiest thang I ever did see from a youngin with a wand! Fo' free, my lil'un, fo' free."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy gently tucked the wand into her hip and led a silent, tense, and pale Kiran next door, to one Johannes style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Johannes Jonker was as old as Violetta. He had long, white hair, translucent white skin, and big eyes that were completely style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Why, hello," The old man said in an airy voice. "I can sense it. You are a No-Maj, correct? I am, too- nice to meet you, Lucy," Johannes took Lucy's hand and shook style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How do you-" Lucy began, but Johannes style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I am a Legilimens, Lucy. I read minds- in fact, it isn't something I can help, as much as I would sometimes like to."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "That... is..." Lucy began, eyes style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Disturbing," snapped style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Wonderful," corrected Lucy. Johannes, who was not looking at Lucy, style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm blind," answered Johannes. Lucy style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm sorry," Lucy said coyly. Johannes style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size:
inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Don't be. If I wanted to see, I would take out the cataracts. Being blind brings a different sort of sight. It helps with the wandmaking,"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy tilted her head a moment, then style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "And, since I am a Legilimens, I know the perfect wand for you. Very rare, it is!" Johannes reached behind the counter and pulled out a pearlescent box, which he held style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Ten inches long, with a Wampus hair core... And, instead of wood, it is made of mother-of-pearl. Give it a twirl, Lucy."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy opened it and took out the thick wand. This one was very thick at the base, like a handle, and shone brilliantly. It was gorgeous. Lucy giggled and waved style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / This time, it was pure gold that poured from her wand. She laughed as it fell to the floor and stacked itself neatly into perfect gold style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "That can't be real gold," Kiran said from behind Lucy. Johannes picked one up and played with it for a style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm afraid it is, Kiran," Johannes said. "And it is all Lucy's."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "This has to be worth a fortune!" Lucy style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "It is. However, that spell you just performed is illegal." Johannes said. "Not to worry, however. I will say that these were found in my travels when I turn it in for money, say, in a few minutes, and before you leave today you can come and pick up your money? I'll take the price of the wand out of it... And just a bit more for my troubles." Johannes blinked with a blind eye, and slowly moved his hand until it found the top of Lucy's head and ruffled her hair. She giggled loudly, and thanked him, then went off to the next wand style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Do we really have to see them all?" Snapped style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Yes," Lucy style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "You already have two wands,"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "So?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / And then, they were inside Shikoba Wolfe's Wand style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Shikoba was just as old as the former two wandmakers, but her hair was as dark as night. She was obviously Native, and her dark eyes were all pupil; no iris, no white. She had paint on her face and feathers in her hair, and wore a primitive leather dress and style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Shikoba looked into Lucy's soul when she looked at her, and Lucy instinctively clung to Kiran, who tensed. Shikoba looked at him then, a frown on her face, and he glared back. Lucy felt pure terror rushing through her, and felt her heart in her stomach as she began to breathe heavily. Kiran squeezed Lucy's arm, half for support and half to use pain to jolt her out of her fear. Slowly, Lucy calmed style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Five sickles for consultation," Shikoba said in a deep, earthy voice. Lucy handed her galleon and Shikoba style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "You are very weak. I have a wand of dirt for you, three inches in length," Shikoba's voice was a hateful growl, and Kiran reopened the door. Shikoba style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "You do not want it?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran slammed the door behind them, and Lucy was compelled to run into the next style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / A man sat at the counter in this shop, and he looked up to see a terrified Lucy holding tightly to her brother's hand. This man was different, and had a very nice style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / He was younger than the other three, maybe twenty five. He was obviously of hispanic descent, with small rusty eyes and short, tousled sepia hair. His skin was a deep tan color, and he was extremely handsome. His outfit had steampunks hints to it; his vest was leather and had all sorts of golden gadgets on it, and underneath was a white button down with the sleeves pushed up to reveal strong, hairy golden arms. His pinstripe pants were held up by a gold belt covered in more little golden things, and he hand buckle-covered boots and funny goggles on his style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Why, hello there," he greeted in a Mexican accent. He stood. "Hablas espanol?" (Do you speak spanish?)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" /span style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;" "Muy pequeno," (Very little,) Lucy replied. The man smiled./spanbr style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Me llamo Thiago Quintana," (I am called Thiago Quintana,) he said, walking over and talking Lucy's hand and kissing it. "Y tu?" (And you?)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Me nombre es Lucy Mallard, encantada de conocerte." (My name is Lucy Mallard, nice to meet you.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content:
margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago got the grin of the devil, and Lucy felt her heart flutter. "Igualmente, carina." (Likewise, darling.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy giggled gently, and Thiago spun dramatically and waved her to follow him behind his desk. They sat, him in the previously occupied chair, and her in a stool that made her the same height as him. Kiran reluctantly stalked forward, style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Cuentame sobre ti," (Tell me about yourself,) Thiago began. "Para que pueda elegir correctamente una varita para ti." (So that I can properly choose a wand for you.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "¿Qué tipo de cosas debo decirte?" (What kind of things should I tell you?) giggled style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago's eyes grew playful. "If you could have any one thing in the world that you desire, what would it be, and why?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran frowned, and Lucy thought. "I would have... Happiness," Lucy decided. Thiago style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Very good. I did mean, however, materialistic thing. Something you can touch."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I would have a house. A big house, paid for and pretty, for me and Kiran," Lucy looked over at her brother and smiled. Kiran quirked a brow at his sister, eyes style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Una cosa mas," (One more thing,) Thiago said. "Cuál es tu animal favorito?" (What is your favorite animal?)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "El delfin," Lucy said without hesitation. Dolphins were gorgeous. Thiago style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Mmm... I see. I know the perfect wand for you, delfinita."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Delfinita?" Asked Lucy with a style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Little dolphin. Like, abuelita is little grandmother?" Thiago winked. "I just made it up for you, delfinita. Eres mi delfinita," Thiago went into his back room and returned with a style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Diecisiete pulgadas, hechas con madera del sauces llorón en mi patio trasero, el núcleo es una columna vertebral de la parte posterior del monstruo del río blanco. Me encantaría verte usarlo, mi delfinita." (Seventeen inches, made with wood from the weeping willow tree in my backyard, the core is a spine from the back of the white river monster. I would love to see you use it, my little dolphin.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy held the wand in her hand. It was long, sleek, and elegant, a deep grey in color, and very beautiful. She waved the long wand, and Thiago yawned before falling down onto his knees, then onto his hip. Lucy gasped and Thiago shuddered a moment, blinking hard, and recovered, as Lucy stood frozen and style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago grinned once he recovered. "The wand is perfect for you, mi delfinita. And for you, I will sell it for but a single knut."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy smiled for a moment, then frowned. "Oh, no," she whispered. "I can't!"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "And why not?" Thiago asked, quickly rising to his feet. "You must!" His face looked style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I promised Violetta Beauvais I wouldn't buy a wand from you," Lucy said gently. "She doesn't seem to like you."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago snorted. "She'd only mad because I turned her down. She's a wild one, that one- has been since we were in school."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy raised a brow, and without thinking gave Thiago a once over. He style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I have aged much more gracefully than she. In fact, however, we are the same age."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy made a face of obvious doubt, and Thiago laughed once style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Alright. I am a Veela; a rare thing in men. We do not age like humans do. My mother was pure Spanish and my father was half Spanish and half Mexican."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy looked at him for a long time. "Like the girls in the Odyssey?" she asked finally. Thiago style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Si, yes. Only, we are not birds, just beautiful, powerful shapeshifters."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy smiled after a long moment, and then style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "And I have a solution to our predicament," Thiago winked at Lucy. "You can have it without buying it, if you promise to visit me often," Thiago pushed a strand of Lucy's hair behind her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Another free wand?" Giggled Lucy. Thiago winked. span style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;""/spanspan style="line-height: 1.8em; color:
inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;"¿Puedo contarte un secreto?" (Can I tell you a secret?) Lucy asked./spanbr style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Si claro, mi delfinita." (Of course, my little dolphin.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy stood on her tippy toes and Thiago bent down. The girl cupped her hand around her mouth and whispered softly into Thiago's ear, "Creo que estoy enamorado de ti." (I think I am in love with you.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago chuckled softly and turned to whisper back. "Si sientes lo mismo en diez años, sería un tonto no perseguirte." (If you feel the same in ten years, it would be foolish not to pursue you.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Deberias?" (Shall you?)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Si claro, mi delfinita." (Of course, my little dolphin."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Lucy," Kiran said. The girl went back onto her feet and smiled shyly up at Thiago, who grinned down at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Adios, tentador," Lucy giggled. (Goodbye, tempter [male version of temptress; Veelas are like sirens, who tempt men to their deaths]).br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago gave a wolfish laugh. "Despedida, mi delfinita."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / A giddy Lucy followed Kiran out, and they saw Johannes returning, whistling, as they left Thiago's. They followed him into his shoppe, and he laid out a ridiculous amount of style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "344,480 galleons." Johannes grinned. "Or, in No-Maj money, $2,531,928."/p
p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" Kiran breathed in sharply and gripped Lucy's shoulder. "Holy shit," Kiran said style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Johannes laughed. "You'll forgive me for taking a few thousand dollars, I hope?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy laughed slowly. "That is so... So much..." She laughed again, speechless. Johannes messed up her hair style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "That is what five gold bars are worth. I would advise you to keep this a secret, and of course not to try that spell ever again."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Never," Lucy laughed. She grinned up at Kiran, who stared at the style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / They ended up stowing it discreetly amongst Lucy's clothes, other than what they could put in Kiran's wallet and in Lucy's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'd advise you to put it into Juanegnon's Bank. The goblins don't care if it is stolen and anything in their vaults is off-limits to the law."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran frowned. "That sounds..."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Nevermind how it sounds, boy. You can't just keep money laying around the house. Not that much, anyway."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / And so, they went to Juanegnon's in Isolt's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / The inside of the bank was gorgeous. The floors, walls, and ceiling were all pure gold, and the building was as tall as a footbal field. Grand chandeliers decorated the ceiling, and giant, stained-glass windows were perched every two feet. Kiran and a marvelling Lucy walk to the first open goblin; a small woman with a big nose and long, pointed style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Hello," she said in a New Jersey accent. "Whatchya needing today, dearie?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I need to put money in, but, erm, I don't have a vault. I'm No-Maj born-"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Say no more, sweetie," the woman giggled. "Just follow me."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy and Kiran followed the gobliness back, and after she flashed an I.D. badge at a small goblin security guard, they got into what looked like a miner's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "What... Is this?" Lucy asked as they started style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "It's a Goblin bank. Every country has one and only one. This is how we do things, sugar," she style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm Lucy, by the way. Lucy Mallard," Lucy said, holding the sides as the cart started style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm Mazibit Mudboot, but you can call me Maz," The goblin said. It sped up even more, until Lucy was sure she was going to be sick; luckily, however, it style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Here we are, your new vault," Maz said, walking forward in her small, pinstripped suit. She was curvy and had a thick belt on her waist, and green hair in a bun. She was probably considered very cute to most goblins. "Number 1896," Maz pushed a green nail into a keyhole, and a silver key was slid under the door. The gobliness picked it up and handed it to Lucy. "Here you are, and don't lose it, you here? Or you'll have to come find me, specifically. And I am a busy lady." Maz winked at Lucy and she style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / The door opened when Maz put her hand against it, and inside was a small, empty room. "It gets bigger as you fill it," Maz explained. "Now put in your treasures and tell me when you're done."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy and Kiran unloaded all of the galleons as Maz watched, obviously amused. Kiran was red-faced and uncomfortable, and Lucy was soon bored with the tedious task. Eventually, however, they had put 344,300 galleons in the room. Lucy had eighty in her pocket, and Kiran had a hundred in his wallet. They walked out of the room and looked at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm done," Lucy said happily, fingers tracing the key in her pocket. Maz took them back to the main room style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / They had to stay to talk with Maz for a while. They answered security questions, gave their fingerprints, and registered Lucy's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Would you like a credit card?" Maz asked. "Every purchase with one costs you five knuts and the card itself is five sickles to get."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Yes," Lucy said with a smile. Maz returned it and made her a card; Lucy handed her a galleon and took her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "It took us so long to get credit cards, it did. No-Mages had these, what, in the 1960s, and we didn't get 'em until something like 2002! It is crazy, it really is."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Can you exchange Wizard money for No-Maj money?" Lucy asked.
Maz style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Why, yes we can, but we end up taking I think five percent. How much you wanna exchange?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "A hundred galleons," Kiran spoke up. Maz look at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Alright, that translates into seven hundred and thirty five dollars, and our cut is five percent, which is thirty five dollars and seventy five cents, leaving you with six hundred and ninety eight dollars and twenty five cents. Is that alright?" Maz said without style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How did you do that so fast?!" exclaimed Lucy with style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm a goblin, sweetie, it's what we do. Here's your money, will that be all?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran and Maz exchanged money and Lucy assured the gobliness that it would be style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Then you two have a very nice day."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran and Lucy walked forward, Kiran closer to Lucy than usual. It seemed that her conjuring up two and a half million dollars made him a bit style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / They went to the Quidditch store in James' Alley next, and Lucy's feet ached from all the walking. It was dark outside style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / The owner was eccentric middle aged man who was more than happy to show Lucy their newest broom, a Freeform XP Version 2.3, and only the best Quidditch gear, as well as a Quidditch book that would literally teach the reader how to play Quidditch- like, magically- and a kit for broom maintenance. Lucy bought it all for her remaining on-hand money, 30 style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / And, finally, they went a few stores down to Kevin's Pet Parlour right before it style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Unlike most other stores they'd been to, there was a customer in this store. The worker, a thirty-something year old in a stripped uniform, was talking with an old man in a blue trench coat with old fashioned trousers on. He had curler white hair and tan, freckled skin, and it seemed that he had once been very style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Ah, 'scuse me Newt, I've got a customer," The plump man, presumably Kevin, had a Southern accent, one perhaps from Texas. He smiled at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "What can I get for you, girl?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I want... Something weird that I still could take to Ilvermorny. Something small and cute, or small and dangerous but will still love me."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kevin chuckled and Newt, the old man, smiled down at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Newt Scamander?" Kiran asked. The older man looked up and then smiled at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Yes," he said in an English style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How did you know that?" Lucy asked her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Your textbook was written by him. I figured Newt can't be too common, and he's in a Pet Parlour, and he's a Magizoologist..."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "A Magizi-whatta-who?" Lucy asked. Kiran glared at his style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Just get your pet so we can go home."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Alright, alright." Lucy said grumpily, Newt's shrewd eyes were watching Lucy, style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Show her the pygmy Erumpent," Newt murmured to Kevin, his eyes cast downwards, looking very awkward style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "You sure, Newt?" Kevin asked. Newt style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kevin disappeared into the back for a moment, then returned with a small animal in his hand. It was maybe six inches tall, three inches wide, five inches long. It looked like tiny Rhino with a swollen forehead, flat face, and inch long horn. Lucy gasped loudly and moved forward, stroking the thing with a finger. Its hide was rough, and it made a pleasant honking sound in style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Oh, I love her," Lucy style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How did you know she's a girl?" Newt asked style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "She just... Feels like a girl to me," Lucy replied, petting her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Good job," Newt said after a moment. Lucy looked up at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;
content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How much for her?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "For this girl? I'd say thirty galleons."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "That's ridiculous! Lucy, we're not paying that-" Kiran said style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Oi, who are you? I say thirty galleons is the price, and-"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Make it twenty, Kevin-" Newt style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'll pay forty." Snapped Lucy. Everyone looked at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Like hell!" roared Kiran, who shot forward and grabbed Lucy's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "It's my money, Kiran! I made it!" Lucy turned to look at him over her shoulder. "You're not the boss of me!"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Yes, I am, I'm your brother-"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Exactly! Brother, not father. Stop pretending like you are!" Lucy roared. Kiran's eyes grew cold and he let her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Fine. Do what you what. But don't come to em style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;"my /emhouse if that's how you feel." Kiran turned and rushed out the door, slamming it shut. Lucy breathed in and then out, then turned and handed a stunned Kevin her credit style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Actually, I'll take an owl as well. For sending letters."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kevin cleared his throat. "What kind would you like?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I... Don't know anything about owls. One that's fast and nice."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kevin came back with a small owl that was grey and spotty, with what looked like eyebrows. It tipped its head at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "He just woke up, might be a bit inactive," Kevin style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How much?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Fifteen sickles."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy nodded, and ten minutes later, she realized that she did not have any more room in her arms for the things she's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Newt offered to help her and swiftly grabbed all of her Quidditch things. Kevin said it was time for him to lock up, anyway, and took her new owl and erumpent, as well the his cage and their style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Where to?" Newt asked style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I... Is there an inn around here? I can't go home..."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Just the Blind Pig," Kevin said. Newt shook his style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "That's no place for a child. You can stay with me, if you'd like. I'm sure Tina won't mind if you use Jake's old room,"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / And so, they walked to Rionach's Alley once more, to Fantastical Beasts' Zoo and Museum to small house near the style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / A woman was sitting at the dining room table with a short, fuzzy white bob and a cup of coffee. She straightened when she saw the trio walking into her house. She stood and she and Newt style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Who are these people?" she style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Tina, this is Kevin from the Parlour, and this little girl is..." Newt looked at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Lucy Mallard," she said quietly. "My brother told me I can't go home, and Newt said I can't stay at the Blind Pig, so he said you wouldn't mine if I used the old room of someone named Jake," Lucy style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Tina nodded slowly, thinking, then shrugged. "Alright, then... Here, follow me."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy settled into an old, twin sized bed, her unnamed owl in its cage on a nightstand, her unnamed erumpent on her pillow, her things in their bags on the floor. She slowly settled into troubled sleep./p
inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Don't be. If I wanted to see, I would take out the cataracts. Being blind brings a different sort of sight. It helps with the wandmaking,"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy tilted her head a moment, then style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "And, since I am a Legilimens, I know the perfect wand for you. Very rare, it is!" Johannes reached behind the counter and pulled out a pearlescent box, which he held style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Ten inches long, with a Wampus hair core... And, instead of wood, it is made of mother-of-pearl. Give it a twirl, Lucy."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy opened it and took out the thick wand. This one was very thick at the base, like a handle, and shone brilliantly. It was gorgeous. Lucy giggled and waved style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / This time, it was pure gold that poured from her wand. She laughed as it fell to the floor and stacked itself neatly into perfect gold style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "That can't be real gold," Kiran said from behind Lucy. Johannes picked one up and played with it for a style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm afraid it is, Kiran," Johannes said. "And it is all Lucy's."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "This has to be worth a fortune!" Lucy style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "It is. However, that spell you just performed is illegal." Johannes said. "Not to worry, however. I will say that these were found in my travels when I turn it in for money, say, in a few minutes, and before you leave today you can come and pick up your money? I'll take the price of the wand out of it... And just a bit more for my troubles." Johannes blinked with a blind eye, and slowly moved his hand until it found the top of Lucy's head and ruffled her hair. She giggled loudly, and thanked him, then went off to the next wand style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Do we really have to see them all?" Snapped style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Yes," Lucy style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "You already have two wands,"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "So?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / And then, they were inside Shikoba Wolfe's Wand style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Shikoba was just as old as the former two wandmakers, but her hair was as dark as night. She was obviously Native, and her dark eyes were all pupil; no iris, no white. She had paint on her face and feathers in her hair, and wore a primitive leather dress and style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Shikoba looked into Lucy's soul when she looked at her, and Lucy instinctively clung to Kiran, who tensed. Shikoba looked at him then, a frown on her face, and he glared back. Lucy felt pure terror rushing through her, and felt her heart in her stomach as she began to breathe heavily. Kiran squeezed Lucy's arm, half for support and half to use pain to jolt her out of her fear. Slowly, Lucy calmed style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Five sickles for consultation," Shikoba said in a deep, earthy voice. Lucy handed her galleon and Shikoba style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "You are very weak. I have a wand of dirt for you, three inches in length," Shikoba's voice was a hateful growl, and Kiran reopened the door. Shikoba style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "You do not want it?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran slammed the door behind them, and Lucy was compelled to run into the next style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / A man sat at the counter in this shop, and he looked up to see a terrified Lucy holding tightly to her brother's hand. This man was different, and had a very nice style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / He was younger than the other three, maybe twenty five. He was obviously of hispanic descent, with small rusty eyes and short, tousled sepia hair. His skin was a deep tan color, and he was extremely handsome. His outfit had steampunks hints to it; his vest was leather and had all sorts of golden gadgets on it, and underneath was a white button down with the sleeves pushed up to reveal strong, hairy golden arms. His pinstripe pants were held up by a gold belt covered in more little golden things, and he hand buckle-covered boots and funny goggles on his style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Why, hello there," he greeted in a Mexican accent. He stood. "Hablas espanol?" (Do you speak spanish?)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" /span style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;" "Muy pequeno," (Very little,) Lucy replied. The man smiled./spanbr style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Me llamo Thiago Quintana," (I am called Thiago Quintana,) he said, walking over and talking Lucy's hand and kissing it. "Y tu?" (And you?)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Me nombre es Lucy Mallard, encantada de conocerte." (My name is Lucy Mallard, nice to meet you.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content:
margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago got the grin of the devil, and Lucy felt her heart flutter. "Igualmente, carina." (Likewise, darling.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy giggled gently, and Thiago spun dramatically and waved her to follow him behind his desk. They sat, him in the previously occupied chair, and her in a stool that made her the same height as him. Kiran reluctantly stalked forward, style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Cuentame sobre ti," (Tell me about yourself,) Thiago began. "Para que pueda elegir correctamente una varita para ti." (So that I can properly choose a wand for you.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "¿Qué tipo de cosas debo decirte?" (What kind of things should I tell you?) giggled style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago's eyes grew playful. "If you could have any one thing in the world that you desire, what would it be, and why?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran frowned, and Lucy thought. "I would have... Happiness," Lucy decided. Thiago style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Very good. I did mean, however, materialistic thing. Something you can touch."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I would have a house. A big house, paid for and pretty, for me and Kiran," Lucy looked over at her brother and smiled. Kiran quirked a brow at his sister, eyes style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Una cosa mas," (One more thing,) Thiago said. "Cuál es tu animal favorito?" (What is your favorite animal?)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "El delfin," Lucy said without hesitation. Dolphins were gorgeous. Thiago style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Mmm... I see. I know the perfect wand for you, delfinita."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Delfinita?" Asked Lucy with a style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Little dolphin. Like, abuelita is little grandmother?" Thiago winked. "I just made it up for you, delfinita. Eres mi delfinita," Thiago went into his back room and returned with a style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Diecisiete pulgadas, hechas con madera del sauces llorón en mi patio trasero, el núcleo es una columna vertebral de la parte posterior del monstruo del río blanco. Me encantaría verte usarlo, mi delfinita." (Seventeen inches, made with wood from the weeping willow tree in my backyard, the core is a spine from the back of the white river monster. I would love to see you use it, my little dolphin.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy held the wand in her hand. It was long, sleek, and elegant, a deep grey in color, and very beautiful. She waved the long wand, and Thiago yawned before falling down onto his knees, then onto his hip. Lucy gasped and Thiago shuddered a moment, blinking hard, and recovered, as Lucy stood frozen and style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago grinned once he recovered. "The wand is perfect for you, mi delfinita. And for you, I will sell it for but a single knut."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy smiled for a moment, then frowned. "Oh, no," she whispered. "I can't!"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "And why not?" Thiago asked, quickly rising to his feet. "You must!" His face looked style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I promised Violetta Beauvais I wouldn't buy a wand from you," Lucy said gently. "She doesn't seem to like you."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago snorted. "She'd only mad because I turned her down. She's a wild one, that one- has been since we were in school."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy raised a brow, and without thinking gave Thiago a once over. He style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I have aged much more gracefully than she. In fact, however, we are the same age."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy made a face of obvious doubt, and Thiago laughed once style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Alright. I am a Veela; a rare thing in men. We do not age like humans do. My mother was pure Spanish and my father was half Spanish and half Mexican."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy looked at him for a long time. "Like the girls in the Odyssey?" she asked finally. Thiago style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Si, yes. Only, we are not birds, just beautiful, powerful shapeshifters."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy smiled after a long moment, and then style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "And I have a solution to our predicament," Thiago winked at Lucy. "You can have it without buying it, if you promise to visit me often," Thiago pushed a strand of Lucy's hair behind her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Another free wand?" Giggled Lucy. Thiago winked. span style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;""/spanspan style="line-height: 1.8em; color:
inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;"¿Puedo contarte un secreto?" (Can I tell you a secret?) Lucy asked./spanbr style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Si claro, mi delfinita." (Of course, my little dolphin.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy stood on her tippy toes and Thiago bent down. The girl cupped her hand around her mouth and whispered softly into Thiago's ear, "Creo que estoy enamorado de ti." (I think I am in love with you.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago chuckled softly and turned to whisper back. "Si sientes lo mismo en diez años, sería un tonto no perseguirte." (If you feel the same in ten years, it would be foolish not to pursue you.)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Deberias?" (Shall you?)br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Si claro, mi delfinita." (Of course, my little dolphin."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Lucy," Kiran said. The girl went back onto her feet and smiled shyly up at Thiago, who grinned down at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Adios, tentador," Lucy giggled. (Goodbye, tempter [male version of temptress; Veelas are like sirens, who tempt men to their deaths]).br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Thiago gave a wolfish laugh. "Despedida, mi delfinita."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / A giddy Lucy followed Kiran out, and they saw Johannes returning, whistling, as they left Thiago's. They followed him into his shoppe, and he laid out a ridiculous amount of style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "344,480 galleons." Johannes grinned. "Or, in No-Maj money, $2,531,928."/p
p style="line-height: 1.8em; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system, '.SFNSText-Regular', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #fefefe; clear: none !important;" Kiran breathed in sharply and gripped Lucy's shoulder. "Holy shit," Kiran said style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Johannes laughed. "You'll forgive me for taking a few thousand dollars, I hope?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy laughed slowly. "That is so... So much..." She laughed again, speechless. Johannes messed up her hair style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "That is what five gold bars are worth. I would advise you to keep this a secret, and of course not to try that spell ever again."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Never," Lucy laughed. She grinned up at Kiran, who stared at the style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / They ended up stowing it discreetly amongst Lucy's clothes, other than what they could put in Kiran's wallet and in Lucy's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'd advise you to put it into Juanegnon's Bank. The goblins don't care if it is stolen and anything in their vaults is off-limits to the law."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran frowned. "That sounds..."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Nevermind how it sounds, boy. You can't just keep money laying around the house. Not that much, anyway."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / And so, they went to Juanegnon's in Isolt's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / The inside of the bank was gorgeous. The floors, walls, and ceiling were all pure gold, and the building was as tall as a footbal field. Grand chandeliers decorated the ceiling, and giant, stained-glass windows were perched every two feet. Kiran and a marvelling Lucy walk to the first open goblin; a small woman with a big nose and long, pointed style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Hello," she said in a New Jersey accent. "Whatchya needing today, dearie?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I need to put money in, but, erm, I don't have a vault. I'm No-Maj born-"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Say no more, sweetie," the woman giggled. "Just follow me."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy and Kiran followed the gobliness back, and after she flashed an I.D. badge at a small goblin security guard, they got into what looked like a miner's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "What... Is this?" Lucy asked as they started style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "It's a Goblin bank. Every country has one and only one. This is how we do things, sugar," she style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm Lucy, by the way. Lucy Mallard," Lucy said, holding the sides as the cart started style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm Mazibit Mudboot, but you can call me Maz," The goblin said. It sped up even more, until Lucy was sure she was going to be sick; luckily, however, it style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Here we are, your new vault," Maz said, walking forward in her small, pinstripped suit. She was curvy and had a thick belt on her waist, and green hair in a bun. She was probably considered very cute to most goblins. "Number 1896," Maz pushed a green nail into a keyhole, and a silver key was slid under the door. The gobliness picked it up and handed it to Lucy. "Here you are, and don't lose it, you here? Or you'll have to come find me, specifically. And I am a busy lady." Maz winked at Lucy and she style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / The door opened when Maz put her hand against it, and inside was a small, empty room. "It gets bigger as you fill it," Maz explained. "Now put in your treasures and tell me when you're done."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy and Kiran unloaded all of the galleons as Maz watched, obviously amused. Kiran was red-faced and uncomfortable, and Lucy was soon bored with the tedious task. Eventually, however, they had put 344,300 galleons in the room. Lucy had eighty in her pocket, and Kiran had a hundred in his wallet. They walked out of the room and looked at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm done," Lucy said happily, fingers tracing the key in her pocket. Maz took them back to the main room style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / They had to stay to talk with Maz for a while. They answered security questions, gave their fingerprints, and registered Lucy's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Would you like a credit card?" Maz asked. "Every purchase with one costs you five knuts and the card itself is five sickles to get."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Yes," Lucy said with a smile. Maz returned it and made her a card; Lucy handed her a galleon and took her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "It took us so long to get credit cards, it did. No-Mages had these, what, in the 1960s, and we didn't get 'em until something like 2002! It is crazy, it really is."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Can you exchange Wizard money for No-Maj money?" Lucy asked.
Maz style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Why, yes we can, but we end up taking I think five percent. How much you wanna exchange?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "A hundred galleons," Kiran spoke up. Maz look at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Alright, that translates into seven hundred and thirty five dollars, and our cut is five percent, which is thirty five dollars and seventy five cents, leaving you with six hundred and ninety eight dollars and twenty five cents. Is that alright?" Maz said without style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How did you do that so fast?!" exclaimed Lucy with style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'm a goblin, sweetie, it's what we do. Here's your money, will that be all?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran and Maz exchanged money and Lucy assured the gobliness that it would be style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Then you two have a very nice day."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kiran and Lucy walked forward, Kiran closer to Lucy than usual. It seemed that her conjuring up two and a half million dollars made him a bit style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / They went to the Quidditch store in James' Alley next, and Lucy's feet ached from all the walking. It was dark outside style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / The owner was eccentric middle aged man who was more than happy to show Lucy their newest broom, a Freeform XP Version 2.3, and only the best Quidditch gear, as well as a Quidditch book that would literally teach the reader how to play Quidditch- like, magically- and a kit for broom maintenance. Lucy bought it all for her remaining on-hand money, 30 style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / And, finally, they went a few stores down to Kevin's Pet Parlour right before it style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Unlike most other stores they'd been to, there was a customer in this store. The worker, a thirty-something year old in a stripped uniform, was talking with an old man in a blue trench coat with old fashioned trousers on. He had curler white hair and tan, freckled skin, and it seemed that he had once been very style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Ah, 'scuse me Newt, I've got a customer," The plump man, presumably Kevin, had a Southern accent, one perhaps from Texas. He smiled at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "What can I get for you, girl?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I want... Something weird that I still could take to Ilvermorny. Something small and cute, or small and dangerous but will still love me."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kevin chuckled and Newt, the old man, smiled down at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Newt Scamander?" Kiran asked. The older man looked up and then smiled at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Yes," he said in an English style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How did you know that?" Lucy asked her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Your textbook was written by him. I figured Newt can't be too common, and he's in a Pet Parlour, and he's a Magizoologist..."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "A Magizi-whatta-who?" Lucy asked. Kiran glared at his style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Just get your pet so we can go home."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Alright, alright." Lucy said grumpily, Newt's shrewd eyes were watching Lucy, style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Show her the pygmy Erumpent," Newt murmured to Kevin, his eyes cast downwards, looking very awkward style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "You sure, Newt?" Kevin asked. Newt style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kevin disappeared into the back for a moment, then returned with a small animal in his hand. It was maybe six inches tall, three inches wide, five inches long. It looked like tiny Rhino with a swollen forehead, flat face, and inch long horn. Lucy gasped loudly and moved forward, stroking the thing with a finger. Its hide was rough, and it made a pleasant honking sound in style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Oh, I love her," Lucy style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How did you know she's a girl?" Newt asked style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "She just... Feels like a girl to me," Lucy replied, petting her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Good job," Newt said after a moment. Lucy looked up at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;
content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How much for her?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "For this girl? I'd say thirty galleons."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "That's ridiculous! Lucy, we're not paying that-" Kiran said style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Oi, who are you? I say thirty galleons is the price, and-"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Make it twenty, Kevin-" Newt style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I'll pay forty." Snapped Lucy. Everyone looked at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Like hell!" roared Kiran, who shot forward and grabbed Lucy's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "It's my money, Kiran! I made it!" Lucy turned to look at him over her shoulder. "You're not the boss of me!"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Yes, I am, I'm your brother-"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Exactly! Brother, not father. Stop pretending like you are!" Lucy roared. Kiran's eyes grew cold and he let her style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Fine. Do what you what. But don't come to em style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important;"my /emhouse if that's how you feel." Kiran turned and rushed out the door, slamming it shut. Lucy breathed in and then out, then turned and handed a stunned Kevin her credit style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Actually, I'll take an owl as well. For sending letters."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kevin cleared his throat. "What kind would you like?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I... Don't know anything about owls. One that's fast and nice."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Kevin came back with a small owl that was grey and spotty, with what looked like eyebrows. It tipped its head at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "He just woke up, might be a bit inactive," Kevin style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "How much?"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Fifteen sickles."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy nodded, and ten minutes later, she realized that she did not have any more room in her arms for the things she's style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Newt offered to help her and swiftly grabbed all of her Quidditch things. Kevin said it was time for him to lock up, anyway, and took her new owl and erumpent, as well the his cage and their style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Where to?" Newt asked style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "I... Is there an inn around here? I can't go home..."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Just the Blind Pig," Kevin said. Newt shook his style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "That's no place for a child. You can stay with me, if you'd like. I'm sure Tina won't mind if you use Jake's old room,"br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / And so, they walked to Rionach's Alley once more, to Fantastical Beasts' Zoo and Museum to small house near the style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / A woman was sitting at the dining room table with a short, fuzzy white bob and a cup of coffee. She straightened when she saw the trio walking into her house. She stood and she and Newt style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Who are these people?" she style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Tina, this is Kevin from the Parlour, and this little girl is..." Newt looked at style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / "Lucy Mallard," she said quietly. "My brother told me I can't go home, and Newt said I can't stay at the Blind Pig, so he said you wouldn't mine if I used the old room of someone named Jake," Lucy style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Tina nodded slowly, thinking, then shrugged. "Alright, then... Here, follow me."br style="line-height: 1.8em; color: inherit !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; clear: none !important; content: margin-top: 0.8em; display: block;" / Lucy settled into an old, twin sized bed, her unnamed owl in its cage on a nightstand, her unnamed erumpent on her pillow, her things in their bags on the floor. She slowly settled into troubled sleep./p