Silly Relief.

"Did you really defeat an adult dragon Loki!?" A young boy asked with stars in his eyes.

Loki sent a funny glance Elane's way and found her blushing in embarrassment so he put up a proud smile and spoke loudly, "Of course, I defeated a dragon! It was as tall as the orphanage and had claws that were sharper than a razor blade!"

Elane's eyes widened but she quickly caught on and began to speak with even more enthusiasm. "Not only did my big brother fight it off, he even made it promise to never return!"

"After I defeated it, it also became my friend, so if you guys ever want to meet a dragon, you can just let me know."

"Wooahhhhh!!!!!"

The kids around Loki were all super excited and began asking him more questions like how it felt to ride on a dragon and what its favourite food was and such.

The little kids were all muggles.

They knew nothing about magic so Loki's stories were only fantastical in nature for them. Stories that had come up mostly because of Elane's bragging about various things Loki told her about when they chatted during night while he was at school.

Loki patiently answered everyone along with Elane who was standing beside him with a proud smile.

But suddenly, Loki spotted a stray girl in the crowd that looked like she was about to cry.

"What happened? Did the dragon scare you?" Loki asked the girl, trying to ask her about whatever was worrying her.

But she quickly shook her head and started *sobbing* and *crying*.

Loki looked at it with confusion so he turned towards Elane to understand what had happened but she was almost already about to cry herself.

'Elane's crying!! This is the first time I've ever seen her cry!? Was it because of something I did!? Am I the reason she's crying for the first time!?'

Loki, panicking, pulled the girl towards himself before kneeling beside Elane and asking them the same question, "What happened?! Why are you crying?"

But almost immediately the girls opened their mouths and started *wailing* loudly.

*WWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

Loki grew confused. He started wondering why the two of them had started crying and even looked at everyone else for help, but the other kids suddenly started to act afraid of him.

'The hell!?'

'Did Grindelwald do this!?'

'Is he making me feel bad by making Elane cry!!!????'

'How dare he!!!!!'

As Loki began panicking Walburga stepped in once she saw the fuss that was going on around him. She quickly pulled the two girls closer to herself and began to pat their backs slowly.

The two little girls started to calm down when Walburga's slow rhythmic patting broke their cries of sorrow and distress.

"What happened?" Walburga asked softly, turning towards Elane first since she assumed Elane would be more open to her.

Elane's eyes had turned red because of her rubbing them with tears inside so Walburga had to slowly push away the hand to try and get Elane to listen to her as she repeated the question.

"What happened Elane, why are you crying?"

"*sob* *sob* because *sob* *sob* Elanora *sob* crying…"

Walburga pieced together the string of words that had come out of Elane's mouth before asking, "Elanora is your friend?"

Elane shook her head and spoke with slight anger, "No! *sob* *sob* Elanora is *sob* *sob* my best friend."

"Ah…" Loki suddenly understood what was happening.

Walburga turned towards him because of his exclamation and he quickly knelt beside Elanora to slowly pull her hands away from her eyes as he spoke in a calm soothing tone, trying his very best not to deceive the little children using his Beydonder abilities.

"Elanora, you don't have to worry about Elane going anywhere."

Elanora's eyes opened quickly as she looked at Loki not believing what he'd just said.

But Loki just reassured her after patting her head softly.

"Elane told me about your promise. Didn't you two promise to stay together forever?"

Elanora quickly nodded but there was still hesitation in her eyes as she saw Walburga and Loki so Loki explained further.

"I know Elane is my sister, but Elane already told me that she wants to be with you. So we aren't here to take her away. She'll be with you for as long as you are here."

Elanora quickly looked at Elane.

"Aren't I telling the truth Elane? Didn't you already tell Big Brother that you wanted to remain here with Elanora?" Loki asked with a smile.

Elane quickly nodded before looking at Elanora with some anger as she spoke quickly, "Elane does not break her promises!!"

Loki looked at the two little girls that had gone from crying to talking to each other, albeit with a soft frown of annoyance, in the span of a few seconds and looked at Walburga with a deadpanned expression.

'Seriously? They fight for such silly reasons?'

Walburga just covered her smile and stifled her laughter before turning towards the main gate.

Loki turned around and spotted Cassandra arriving with a radiant smile on her face, as if she'd just done something unthinkable.

An hour ago.

An old lady sat waiting at one of the tables outside the florence and fortescue ice cream parlour. She was sitting quietly while observing the wizards and witches running around her. Occasionally her feet would start tapping the floor because of nervousness, but she'd catch herself doing it and stop it before it got too obvious.

All of a sudden a person placed their hand on her shoulder, causing her to turn around and look at who it was.

"Ah, Sybill, you're finally here."

"Mother…I hadn't expected you to want to talk to me after so long."

Cassandra only smiled at the mention of disconnectivity from her daughter and didn't let her real emotions show.

She wondered if she even remembered how to show genuine emotions anymore, but then she thought about Elane and how she along with all the other kids in the orphanage had kept her heart bright.

She quietly palmed her daughter's hand before guiding her to the chair that was opposite to her own.

"Sit down Sybill. And please don't be so harsh on your mother."

Sybill Trelawney sat down with a soft smile before looking directly at her mother and speaking casually, "Before we begin, mother I wanted to ask you, are you going to finally give up chasing your dream to release 'Him' from Nurmenguard?"

Cassandra gave her daughter a wry smile before speaking softly, "I realise now I had been too naive back then my dear. I recently came across a pair of children in my orphanage who loved each other so deeply they refused to be adopted alone…-"

"-Seeing them I felt like I was wasting the limited time I had with you because of some silly squabbles."

Sybill's smile grew upon hearing her mother's words, but before she could say anything else she froze.

Cassandra who had her wand pointed at her daughter under the table *sighed* in relief before flicking the wand with a soft frown.

All of a sudden, a radiant white orb of light separated from Sybill before it flew to the tip of Cassandra's wand.

She inspected it carefully for a few seconds, before shaking her wand and causing the orb to fly away and fall onto a random brick on the ground.

She pointed her wand at Sybill once again, before flicking her wand while using it blatantly above the table this time, unfreezing Sybill.

"-That's good mother, I'm sure you can prove yourself by joining the Order of Phoenix no-"

Sybill swallowed her words as she raised her hands and looked at them carefully as if she'd just noticed something strange.

"This…Mother!!"

Cassandra finally smiled with *relief* as she saw Sybill tearing up. Her body relaxed as she finally relaxed into her chair to sit more comfortably after realising a *sigh* of exhaustion and happiness.

"Finally! After nearly two decades!!! Finally, I freed you from 'His' control!!"

Sybill on the other hand couldn't properly form words.

Her mouth opened and closed for a few seconds before she broke down into tears, causing Cassandra to flick her wand again to create a small illusion to make everyone else think that they were talking perfectly normally before hugging her daughter with the warmth that Sybill came to relish and Cassandra desperately needed.

Like an oasis for a parched being in a desert.

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