Order Only: Private Message to Rachel Brodie

[alt_justin]

Hello,

Pansy was correct about there being a house in the north, what, but it was a ruse.

I did manage to dispatch one of Lana's Aurors, poor sod. I offered him the option to surrender but he chose to fight.

With your permission, I'm going to contact Baddock's father. Pansy seems to feel he has more the heart of a broker than a murderer. One hopes he'll weigh the relative merits of saving his family at the cost of his scab of a son, and be willing to make a deal.

Even if he doesn't, it might be bally well useful to strain relations between father and son, what.

I shall make no promises other than that his wife, Ptolemy's, and the young daughters will be unharmed and that Aristotle himself will be treated fairly. Pansy was hard-pressed to point to anything he'd done that was jolly well nearly as bad as most of the others, so I do think it's safe to assume that he would be unlikely to receive capital punishment or even life imprisonment if he agrees to submit to a tribunal.

-Justin

Comments

[alt_rachel]

Did Jason know anything? My concern about writing to Ari is that he'll warn Ptolemy, rather than taking the deal.

[alt_justin]

Jason knew, as did Pansy, that Ptolemy and his father have always had a somewhat rocky relationship, for a variety of reasons, including temperament. He had some idea that Ptolemy had been putting an escape plan into place, long before Jason made his move, but with the routes presently cut off it's entirely possible they can remain in hiding for some time.

I'm accounting for the likelihood that he'll warn Ptolemy but my point to him will be that he can trade his son for his daughters, or leave them without their brothers or their father.

And of course, should Lana and Bella be the ones to find them first, there will be no guarantees about the witches in the family.

-J

[alt_rachel]

Good point about Lana and Bella.

You might mention to Ari the collection of Alfred Montague's body parts we got through owl post. I can give you a copy of the Healer's report, if you want. It says which bits were removed while he was alive, and which after he was dead, and how it was done.