Private message to Bill Weasley

[alt_rachel]

You all right then?

I was still at Maidstone this morning but rumour has it that Corax decided to start your day off with a bang.

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[alt_bill]

He started my day off with....something, all right. Not too extreme, anyway. Held the curse about a minute and a half, with a twenty second break in there. Somewhere.

Bad luck: I'd given out my last lemons last week. Letty Thorn needed them when the budget report for her department came in twenty minutes late.

Better now, anyway. The shaking's stopped, but my mind feels thick as muck, and I've been fighting off the urge to sleep all day.

Guess that he wants to be the source of all information to MLE, through his brother, probably. Never mind that the requirement for us to report any dodgy stuff we see is written right into our job descriptions. Anyway, he didn't like my passing along that tip about the Maidstone administrator.

Hope it was worth it, on your end.

[alt_bill]

I'm not trying to make you feel guilty, honest.

Mulciber's just a total bloody arse.

[alt_rachel]

No worries there. A delicate conscience is not a recommended trait in Aurors.

[alt_bill]

I'm discovering that it has less and less value in my job as well.

[alt_rachel]

Ha. Do you regret passing along the intel about the Maidstone bastard?

[alt_bill]

No, I don't.

I don't approve of people taking advantage of their positions in ways that are cruel to others.

I suppose you might find the irony hilarious.

[alt_rachel]

Why is that ironic? Are you taking advantage of your position to be cruel in ways I haven't heard about?

[alt_bill]

If anything, I'm fighting to be as not-cruel as possible, and to never take advantage. But I'm doing the curses. Which is something I never thought I'd do. Mulciber wants me to be feared, as an extension of his own authority so I know rumors are spreading about me.

Still. My dad always said that reputation is what other people think they know about you. Honour is what you know about yourself. Your honour is what you particularly have to guard.

I'm trying.

[alt_rachel]

As it happens, you were dead on that he was up to something (or various things), and MLE was pleased to be able to question him without Mulciber's interference this time.

[alt_rachel]

(As opposed to LAST time we caught a crooked camp admin, when Mulciber...well, doubtless you remember!)

[alt_bill]

I do, yeah. Which is partly why I handled it the way I did. Mulciber can't exactly complain: I made my own report to him before I told you, and I did tell him I smelled a rat on this guy. But then, of course, being reasonable is not exactly his forte.

I told you because tend to trust your motivations more.

Slightly, anyway.

[alt_rachel]

Oh, you do know how to flatter a girl, Bill Weasley.

[alt_bill]

That's gratifying. I'm glad that my instincts are still reliable.