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If you read my first story, you know very well that I love cliff hangers. I haven't done many of those in this story until now… ;]
Short chapter, a longer one will be coming out right after this one.
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CHAPTER 35
The three landed face down and perplexed on a cold floor. Audrey and Sven had recognized the intricate wood designs on the floor at once, Audrey gasped.
"We need to get out of here." Sven whispered in Russian. "I don't like this."
Audrey nodded. Normally she would be happy to be in St. Aleksander's Palace, her grandparents' home but something was peculiar. Why would her bag be a portkey? And who would want to bring her here?
At first, I thought it had been a joke from my cousins…it was a joke, of another kind…
"Where are we?" Sirius asked, slightly peeved that he didn't understand what Sven had said.
Audrey gave Sirius Black a look and then said quietly and quickly. "We are in St. Aleksander's Palace, in St. Petersburg. This is the home of my grandfather."
It was the first time we had ever been so serious with each other, by the way she looked at me I knew there was something incredibly wrong. I could feel my stomach tying into knots…
The three had gotten off the floor, Audrey made to crawl a few feet across the long entrance hall of the palace to grab her bag. It would be a portkey back to Hogwarts, as all port keys were to their enchanted location and to their origin location.
Before she could do that, someone had kicked it far out of the way.
"Nice of you to join the festivities, printsessa Audrey." said an eerily familiar voice.
She looked up and gasped.