Chapter 229 - Exhaustion (2/2)
”You certainly look it,” Pettigrew grunted earning himself a sharp jab from Lupin and letting out a hiss of pain.
Sirius shrugs the words off and says, ”When can we start?!”
”You'll first need to gather the ingredients,” Rowan grimaced as she stifled a yawn. ”I'm sure, you'll clever enough to find a way.”
”Naturally,” James gleefully answered. For Christmas, his dad had given him an old family heirloom. An actual, invisible cloak! He couldn't wait to try it out!
Somehow, Rowan managed to complete her homework, before heading to dinner. At dinner, she at a bit more which made Severus sigh with relief. The girls having been explained the situation all secretly adding a bit of food to Rowan's plate trying to get her to eat a bit more. It worked as she managed to at least finish her plate of food.
Too tired to study, Rowan heads down to the common room area and slumps down into a comfy couch. Barely awake she flinches in surprise at seeing a white furball leap gracefully onto her lap. Staring down at the Turkish Angora kitten that began had to clean its little furry face, she glanced up to see Alchemy stride over and leap onto the couch to sit down next to her.
Rowan warily glanced down at Alchemy, who glanced up at her as if to say, ”We have an arrangement. There are too many slaves, and I need some space. Besides, I'm a King, and he's just a Prince. My kingdoms' large enough for the both of us to reside in.”
As if having understood, Alchemy, Rowan reaches down to rub behind his ears. Alchemy begins to purr as the white kitten lets out an indignant meow at being so rudely ignored. With her other hand, Rowan gently rubs his back as the kitten lets out a satisfied purr. ”Oh, good there you are Bram.”
Rowan glances up to see Regulus as she offers him a sincere smile. ”Did you like your Christmas gift?”
”Yes!” Regulus said as he happily took his protesting kitten into his arms.
”Mother and Father couldn't say, no,” Regulus chuckled. ”You should have seen the look on Sirius's face, when he saw Bram.”
Leaning over as to whisper a secret Regulus begins to giggle, ”Bram really frightened Sirius, when he got into the warm bathtub with him. I've never heard him scream so loud!”
Rowan chuckled at the image. ”Turkish Angora's like to play in the water and are rather good swimmers.”
”Well, I know that now,” Regulus said, before reaching over to give his royal highness, Alchemy a scratch behind his ears as was his due. ”I thought for sure, Alchemy would be jealous, but as it turns out, Alchemy is a rather magnanimous ruler. He just scented Bram, before pulling him over and started to lick him clean.”
”Well, Alchemy is a wise ruler,” Rowan wryly commented as they watched Alchemy give a loud meow in agreement.
Chuckling, Reginald says, ”Well, I best be going. I've got to feed this little thing.” Bram meowed in protest but was swiftly carried away to no avail.
Alchemy smugly swished his tail as if to say, ”If my human tried that, I'd scratch his face off with my claws.” Too tired to stay any longer, Rowan politely petted him goodbye before retiring early for the night. And once more like before she was out within a minute of lying down.