Closed see the light that's shining

[Julian Nightray]

It was weird to be back in Nightray Manor after being in Hogwarts New Zealand for months. Julian had almost forgotten how... challenging it could be at home. Father hadn't really said anything to him about the letters he'd sent during his time at school about Mikael. Or well... Father hadn't said anything to him at all. He supposed it wasn't anything new, but he'd really hoped that his Father would be proud of him after what he'd done at Hogwarts. Sure, he had some A's, but they were on useless things like History and Astronomy and Flying. Well... he did get an A in Defense, but everyone was saying that the professor for that class was questionable anyway. He'd gotten E's and O's on the rest. And he'd spied on Mikael and Tiziano and Eurydice - mostly Mikael - like he was told to do so. Still didn't work. And so it was with much disappointment that Julian tended to his plants in the greenhouse. The house elves had done a great job keeping up his plants so that was indeed very satisfying. The work was distracting - so distracting in fact that he skipped lunch and by the time he noticed how long he'd been in the Greenhouse, it was well past. He sighed, he could always ask the house elves, but instead, he decided to search for his mother - perhaps she would join him for a snack or a very late lunch. It didn't take long at least to find her in one of the brewing rooms within the manor. "Mum? Are you busy?"​

 

[Dominique Nightray]

Dominque Nightray had a grand total of four children. The oldest twins were seventeen now, and the youngest was eight. She was not having anymore children, no matter how much Laurent begged - if he would. Dom was done. She was definitely not like her dear, dead mother who had eight children. She continued to mix her potions in her lab. She might have been a homemaker, but without toddlers and infants, her time was a bit more spread out now so she could work on her own things. Dom also didn't pay any sort of attention to the whole Nightray heir affair. She stopped her work as she saw her youngest son come to her, asking if she was busy. She looked at the potion, and then set a timer. "I have a ten minutes before I add the final ingredients." Dom's red lips curled into a softened smile for her boy. "Is everything all right, my boy?"​