Queen needs an heir. How about her bastard grandson, currently thirteen, forgotten in a corner of Braga.

He imagines it's Timothy telling him. He burns a few more transAtlantic Portkeys.

Why yes, this random kid who looks uncannily like the dead prince regent would love to be introduced to his probable grandmother and made heir to the throne of Portugal.

Probably it's more satisfying when Timothy does it. But he doesn't have Timothy. He has Felix.

...sip.

He should show up to the dungeon with a Bubblehead charm on.

What an obnoxious woman. What a lovely drug. 

- he should really stop that now.

He doesn't pour the rest out - can't bear to waste it - but he puts it away out of reach. And sleeps.

And shows up to the dungeon with a Bubblehead charm on.

This means he doesn't die when she drips blood from her scratched-open arm onto some horrible diagram she's drizzled all over the floor in his poison! She lunges for his wand anyway.

He steps back.

He vanishes the diagram and restrains her and hums a delighted little ode to Felix and - "I could be just a little bit of a jerk and say that I guess you chose Azkaban. But, you know, it's Azkaban. So I'll still kill you if you'd rather."

She hasn't got his wand in time. She is choking to death on the miasma that she was trying to kill him with.

Well. That works too.

Now she is dead.

...sip.

Timothy would probably be proud of him if he set up Elio with that Erica girl who was so concerned about him.

He leans against the wall and closes his eyes and then vanishes with a pop.

He has a better acceleration song. When Minor drops by for supplies he goes with him down south to sing it to Curufinwë, who will be able to reproduce it accurately. "Got it figured out?"

"Not yet. But we will."

"If you want me to stay here and sing the acceleration I can do that - Michael's close on recordings but they're not high-enough fidelity yet -"

"That'll improve on my humming it while I work. Yes, do - he's going to retaliate eventually, we need to be faster -"

"I've gotten a charm to interact with an artifact, now I just need to get it into a functional user interface for Quendi use."

"You're amazing."

"She is the best."

"I say that like the user interface is less than ninety percent of the work."

"Well, from here out we'll be able to think faster."

"I'm looking forward to that!"

Macalaurë sings.