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【Thirty-first of October, 1981】
《POV: Aletris Zabini; Younger Sister of Fiorella and Aunt of Jacob》
Aletris pours herself some non-alcoholic wine. The lemon-lime smells sharp but the taste hollow and bland. When she heard an owl sharp tapping sound on her kitchen window. A Great Grey Owl with small pale yellow eyes and a tiny orange beak. Sterling. Her older sister's owl. Alteris opened the window for the owl to come in. Sterling seemed annoyed. She grabs a piece of bacon hoping he wouldn't screech and wake up her youngest son, Blaise, who was sleeping in his bassinet and her toddler daughters, Anemone and Yarrow. Sterling accepts the bacon only after Aletris takes the letter from the owl it leaves quietly like a ghost.
Aletris rips open the periwinkle colored envelope enclosed with a deep green wax seal. The loopy cursive handwriting fills the page at a comfortable pace. But she knew something was instantly wrong. It was rushed.
Alteris! Jacob is missing! Come as soon as possible. Love, Fiorella.
Aletris looks over the impossibly short letter over and over again trying to find any details.
“Why wouldn't she give me even a scrap of information?” Alteris mutters to herself. But alas she packs up a bag with a few sets of clothes for both her and her three children before picking up her youngest and having her other two hold onto her and appriating to her sister's family home.
Alteris rubbed her head harshly, a bit nauseous from appriating so many people at once. Her toddler daughters whining from the abrupt pop.
“Mummy!” Yarrow whines out pulling at her small ears. Her other young daughter Anemone looks at her with comical betrayal while her son is somehow still asleep. Before Alteris could reply to them —
“Alteris!”
She looked up to see one of her older sisters. Lynn, who was wearing washed out purple jeans, a black shirt and a necklace with a yellow sapphire in the middle matching her gold hoop earrings.
“Lynn? Did you get a letter from Fiorella?” Alteris asks, holding her son tightly to her chest while her other two kids clinged onto her pant legs.
“Yea. I had to make sure my family were fine before I got here.” Lynn says, pushing one of her goddess braids out of her face.
Distantly in another room Alteris could hear her seemingly never-ending amount of nieces and nephews.
“The in-laws are here.” Alteris thought to herself. This was going to be a long night.