( without so much as glancing back at her brother-- ) He is a friend, Nuada, I know you to be at least passing familiar with the concept.
( they're an affectionate pair, these two. usually she just pushes his head in the dirt, but that would require taking her attention away from the peculiar nothing that is all she finds within severus when he fails to divest himself of her fussing.
she wants to ask. this is not, however, the moment to do so-- that isn't a conversation she wishes to have with her brother as its audience. he's difficult enough about the company she keeps without deciding that the limitations of her gifts here justify reopening negotiations on how and where she spends her time, so it will keep. but her head tilts, and her expression is more measuring than it was before. )
You needn't apologise; my brother is a nuisance, and he surely won't.
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( they're an affectionate pair, these two. usually she just pushes his head in the dirt, but that would require taking her attention away from the peculiar nothing that is all she finds within severus when he fails to divest himself of her fussing.
she wants to ask. this is not, however, the moment to do so-- that isn't a conversation she wishes to have with her brother as its audience. he's difficult enough about the company she keeps without deciding that the limitations of her gifts here justify reopening negotiations on how and where she spends her time, so it will keep. but her head tilts, and her expression is more measuring than it was before. )
You needn't apologise; my brother is a nuisance, and he surely won't.