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[alt_poppy]

Melantha and her family are on their way to the castle. Enforcer Nuntius Jordan will be with them, assisting with their baggage. It's difficult managing everything when there's a baby involved.

If you're there and available, I feel certain it would reassure her to see you at the gates before we ask that they submit to veritaserum questioning or Hydra's legilimency.

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[alt_sinistra]

Haruman suggests Phyllis Burrow, if she's not already on your list. Same training class as him and Jack.

He's more sure of her than of Colin O'Flaherty, also in that class. Irish, pureblood, but Haruman isn't about his loyalties.

(We do think we maybe have a solution to the Ireland wards, if you think that would help. No certainties, but we're an awful lot more interested in opening things up than the other side are. Not that that's a high bar. Sorry, you don't need me wit-wandering.)

He also says not to try Auldren Munroe. Entirely bought in to the wrong sort, he thought.

Mel says that she thinks Allthorpe will want to stay with his research, but if you give him a chance to pull his records and notes, he might come. (He keeps all sorts of odd hours, so no one will think too much if he goes in at midnight or dawn or something.)

You might need to convince him to charge in the right direction, but she says to remind him of a conversation she had with him a couple of months ago about the theory of disease, something from the 15th century. (She gave me the name, it fell out of my head, she says the century should do.)

As to the wards, well, the reason the name keeps falling out of my head is that yes, I've a new line of thought. Maybe. Let me know if you need me to wander the castle again, right?

[alt_poppy]

Very helpful. All of that.

Perhaps I'll pay a call on Allthorpe tonight, then--my last stop of the evening.

You've been most helpful, my dear.

I'll pop by when I return and perhaps you'll have a great breakthrough to report! (And also because it's not bad practice to have someone know I've made it back--or not.)

[alt_sinistra]

You know me, I'll be up until near dawn. (Likely in the workroom, or maybe looking at stars for a bit if I get stuck again.)

It - yeah. Good to do something solidly helpful. I've been stuck in the 'this might be helpful if we ever get half of it sorted out' loop for too long, I think.

And do let me know if you get Gilly to come in. I hope you do.