Satisfied with the amount of herbs Sirius added to the bowl, Cecilia looked back up at him when he set the spoon to mix it. "You did," she acknowledged and summoned a few more of the leaves she had used to Transfigure before she had left. It wasn't only for her curiosity's sake that she was starting out with the hard questions. By asking the hard questions first, the ones she figured a lot of people were dying to know, Sirius would – hopefully – know that if she was staying around, it wasn't to get the answers from him. Hopefully.
One by one, she transfigured the leaves into sheets of baking paper, that she stacked neatly next to the bowl while she listened to him talk. "I'm sorry for your loss," she said quietly, meaning it from the bottom of her heart. For him to first be forced to be in what he himself had just described as an evil place, only to return and find that his only friend had died while he was gone was just more unfairness than a single person deserved in several lifetimes.
"And now that you're out from behind the veil," she started carefully, reaching for the fish and placing a suitable amount in the middle of the sheet on top. "Knowing what you know or remember from how it was there, what does that make you think about the place we've landed in? Is it really the paradise it looks to be, or is that all-encompassing evil still lurking all around?" If what was behind the veil was as evil as Sirius had described it, and she had no reason not to believe him on that one, then where would a time disruption through that very same veil have brought them? Removing the spoon from the bowl, she scooped a small handful of vegetables up, placing them on top of the fish before she meticulously began folding up the sides of the paper until it would hold liquid without it spilling over the edges. "Add a bit of butter and a touch of white wine, I'll close it up and seal in all the flavours while it bakes."
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Date: 2012-12-12 02:52 am (UTC)One by one, she transfigured the leaves into sheets of baking paper, that she stacked neatly next to the bowl while she listened to him talk. "I'm sorry for your loss," she said quietly, meaning it from the bottom of her heart. For him to first be forced to be in what he himself had just described as an evil place, only to return and find that his only friend had died while he was gone was just more unfairness than a single person deserved in several lifetimes.
"And now that you're out from behind the veil," she started carefully, reaching for the fish and placing a suitable amount in the middle of the sheet on top. "Knowing what you know or remember from how it was there, what does that make you think about the place we've landed in? Is it really the paradise it looks to be, or is that all-encompassing evil still lurking all around?" If what was behind the veil was as evil as Sirius had described it, and she had no reason not to believe him on that one, then where would a time disruption through that very same veil have brought them? Removing the spoon from the bowl, she scooped a small handful of vegetables up, placing them on top of the fish before she meticulously began folding up the sides of the paper until it would hold liquid without it spilling over the edges. "Add a bit of butter and a touch of white wine, I'll close it up and seal in all the flavours while it bakes."