It was a chilly evening and fog lay heavy over London. Darkness had fallen just after six o’clock and the street lamps had flickered into life, bathing an orange glow over the pavement and roads that were otherwise shrouded in darkness. In Diagon Alley, the Wizarding shopping area of London, gas lamps draped a yellower glow across the pavement but the ones planted in Knockturn Alley did very little to relieve the gloom.
It was just after seven o’clock when Alistair finally shut the shop and stepped out into Diagon Alley, right in the middle of its nightlife as graduates made their way toward Knockturn Alley’s night club: Satain’s. Alistair idly wondered how many of them would die before the night was over but he couldn’t bring himself to care. No one would miss them. They were liabilities – light witches and wizards that were destined for only for one use: martyrs for the Order of the Phoenix. Alistair pitied them – a little.
And so he made his way to Knockturn Alley where he folded into the darkness, his eyes adjusting to it as if he had not spent his day in a brightly lit room, waiting patiently for his patrons to pick their poisons. He had his own destination – a dingy pub just past Borgin and Burkes – and it was as he made his way there that he spotted someone who he remembered he had prior business with but who the day had wiped from his mind.
Alistair approached leisurely, coming up behind Sofie and throwing an arm around her waist, drawing himself close to her as he took in Andrian Potter for his own eyes. Alistair leaned down and smacked a kiss on Sofie’s cheek before glancing up at Andrian.
“Lost again, sweetheart?” Alistair inquired, an oddly jovial lilt to his voice. “My girlfriend,” Alistair shrugged his shoulders before looking at Andrian. “Always getting lost. Say, have we met before? I don’t think we have. I’m Tobias Irigaray.”
[Kind of a minor only not really godmod]