I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Pans, we're all right. Sally Anne, too, I mean. Only, she's still got MLE there at the Strettons, so she probably won't be able to write for a while.

She's not going to be in trouble, though.

The Strettons are a whole other story. It's not going to go well for them, I don't think. At all.

They were growing some secret crops in the middle of their fields. From what the enforcers said, I think it's something that you need to brew Veritaserum or potions like that. Truth serums, y'know. They called it Diviner's Mint, and I guess those plants are worth a load of galleons.

That's what they were after, anywiz. They had special kit--silk sacks and special gloves and silver blades to harvest the stuff. Guess you have to cut it on the night after new moon. Or maybe they just picked tonight because it's going to be so dark. I'm not sure. Pans, do you know?

Anywiz. We're fine.


Though it was kind of dicey for a while there.

Comments

[alt_sally_anne]

OH did you notice someone else wrote on the galleon?

Do you think we should send another message for the galleon people like Daphne and Michael, so they won't worry? What should we say happened?

[alt_pansy]

Hm.

we were going to go flying but the strettons got robbed we're okay though?

[alt_sally_anne]

Like, you'd made plans with me and Ron to come meet us, and we wanted to warn you not to come in the middle of the robbery?

I suppose that's plausible.

[alt_ron]

Um.

You were playing a game with Gemma and pretending to draw new designs on a galleon because she was the Queen of Faerieland and wanted her face on the money? Or- that doesn't explain what you wrote, so you were playing a game and pretending that a galleon was like a portkey that you could write secret messages on and the game was a prisoner game, so you wrote that and it was just in fun.

Does that work?

[alt_sally_anne]

I think I like Pansy's better. Because then I'm not the sort of berk who'd write something on my galleon that would make everyone worry!