#interaction / electra & remus

[asteriananthologies-arc]

ELECTRA & REMUS.

@faultyconscience wrote: 

Remus looked around the dark room, not even sure whose room it had been. After Molly had come through the place, none of the rooms held much of their previous owner’s belongings, save for Sirius’s, who seemed to have gone to great lengths to be sure the most they could erase his existence was to blast him off that tapestry.

“Was this–was this your room?”

Throwing one last ( furtive ) glance over her shoulder to make sure they had entered unobserved, Electra eased the bedroom door shut behind her with as quiet a click as she could manage. “Once upon a time.” A wave of her wand and the gas lamps began to glow—low, at first, and red—until the flames grew, and then they danced, blue and orange, in their brackets. By their light, she could see that very little had changed since she’d last set foot in here, although more than a decade had passed since then: there was her bed, her wardrobe, her dressing table, cleared of all her personal effects but still exactly where she had left them.

“I used to keep my photographs here.” She walked over to show him, running her fingertips across every bare surface on the way—chest of drawers, bookshelves, blanket box—no dust, though. “Has someone been in, cleaning?” She wasn’t sure how she felt about that, how she felt about any of this, if she was honest; there was a crease between her brows, the corners of her lips turned down. “It’s strange to see it looking so ... empty.”