#mention of Zacharias Blackwood

[ask-richard-jackdaw]

Richard,

Happy Thursday, my sweet. I hope you had a lovely day enjoying the pleasures of your corporeal form.

I finally got that photograph of us developed, and I think we look rather handsome.

Yours,

Elizabeth 🖤

Dear Elizabeth,

Words cannot express how much it warms my heart, receving your letters, especially at times like this: it is the end of the day and my physical form feels so so so heavy, refusing to cooperate. I am ready to fall back onto my haphazardly transfigured sofa and get some rest.

I am still using some of your potions to help me sleep better. In those past few weeks I have gotten used to my predicament to the point that I do not wake up in the middle of the night because of some random bursts of pain. I do not know if it is getting easier because I am more accustomed to the ancient magic or to the potions you so lovingly brewed for me. Maybe both?

And thank you, dear~ Thursday is my favourite day of the week! I do not know if you’ve met @ask-felix-aberg but he generously lets me borrow his spare uniform on Thursdays now. What a kind soul! I am yet to make it up to him. I was able to walk among the students as a Ravenclaw. Blue does rather suit me and my white hair.

Surprisingly, some people did not realise that I used to be a ghost… I had a lovely chat with Zacharias (that lad with green/turquoise hair?) today and I don’t know how it is possible to know all the students well enough to single me out in a crowd and yet not know that there is a ghost like me hanging around… I do not want to bring attention to it but I certainly am not a ghost that sits somewhere on the rooftops and sulks all day. I am all over the school! How can somebody not kno—”

*Richard stops himself the moment he realises that he is getting too worked up about this whole thing. He shakes his head, smiling at his own silliness, and rubs his eyes before continuing to write. There is a lot to process from that interaction with the Slytherin. But later.*

The photograph, ah! I am so happy that you did not forget to send me a copy! I was just wondering the other day how this contraption you call “camera” works. Perhaps some day you can explain it to me in detail? For now I just have to say that you look stunning in every portrait I got with you in it! We look rather nice together in this particular shot, don’t you think? Oh, I might have to get this framed!

*Richard has already pinned the photograph of them to the wall, next to Elizabeth’s portrait he received before. It all feels so surreal to him. It would take an artist a while to finish a painting of anyone in his family but now he can just have things like because of how far humans have come? He is happy to have lived (or unlived?) long enough to see this.*

I sincerely hope that you had a wonderful Thursday as well!

Yours truly,

Richard