Order Only: alert for Thursday from ad hoc arithmancy and ley lines working group

[alt_jeremy]

Thursday's Beltane. We expect one of the Octobori is going to light up, with associated ley line activity. We could use some flyers to check things out. Mulciber's in a mood, so no time off for me, though I'll fly an early-morning pattern around the local leys before work. Unlikely to tell us much, though. Sunrise is 5:20, and midday is 1:05, which is when we'd really expect to feel anything if it work as previously.

As to where, based on what we think we understand of the pattern there are two leading hypotheses which diverge strongly. We particularly would like the Isle of Skye and Peterhead watched. Cecelia thinks it's probably the former, and she knows more about this than anyone, but really, be alert to everything. Any detectible activity anywhere at all on Thursday will tell us a lot.

Can anyone help us out around midday and after?

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private message to Alice

[alt_jeremy]

Right, my head's still spinning from our talk a bit ago. Had a mad dream last night we were hosting negotiations between centaurs and house-elves.

More chat soon? Could be Wednesday evening; promised to swing by Sherwood and assist Cecelia going over some calculations about Thursday, but can make a jam run beforehand if timing's good for you.

Re: private message to Alice

[alt_alice]

Yes, please.

Crises have a way of making us focus on the here and now, but I'd welcome the chance to look a bit further ahead. And now that you know more of our planned trajectory, I'd appreciate your input, certainly.

House elves are a cypher I'm not sure we'll crack in our lifetimes, but it's certainly something I've been chewing over as well.

Wednesday evening would be lovely.

[alt_nymphadora]

I can fly on Thursday. Anyone else?

[alt_sirius]

Think the bike's ready for a test flight?

Joking. But I'll come along. Sounds like we'll need two scouting parties, anyway.

[alt_nymphadora]

Excellent! You can zap me if I look like I'm falling asleep on my broom.

[alt_charlie]

I'm good for it.

[alt_nymphadora]

Bring biscuits?

It's hungry work, flying is!

[alt_charlie]

Oh, I see what you're after. You only love me for my biscuits.

[alt_kingsley]

Count me in, along with Dorcas and Caradoc.

[alt_bill]

Jeremy's right about Mulciber not exactly being in the mood to give people time off.

Wish I could join the expedition, but not this time.

private message to Sally-Anne

[alt_jeremy]

I have got a problem. Don't want to talk more about it to Alice. Don't know anyone else I can, really. So.

I see Maureen when I take jam to Moddey. I don't linger, don't pressure her to talk. She looks well, doesn't run screaming if she sees me, but I'm in limbo. I think of her every minute of every day. I know she's got to get used to being free, I know she never had one free choice in her life before you all helped her get out, but...

Look, you've been in the Order longer than I have. Have a muggleborn and a pureblood ever worked out if they started out knowing each other not free?

Merlin, this is impossible, isn't it.

Sorry to dump this on you but I'm hitting a ward here. Don't know if I should press on or give up. Don't know which would be worse. Not that pressing on would be pressing. Waiting, more like. Just more limbo.

Sorry. I'm a right mess just now. But if you have got any of those clever Slytherin thinky thoughts on the subject, I could stand to hear them.

Re: private message to Sally-Anne

[alt_sally_anne]

Funny you should bring this up.

Look, there just haven't been all that many people in your and Maureen's situation.

I mean, okay. My Mum is in a relationship with Scott Brownmiller. She's a muggleborn and he's a pureblood. But, they didn't meet until AFTER she got away from my father.

So I can't tell you that there are any. But I also can't tell you that this means anything, because most of the people the Order's helped to shelter were babies, you know, so they didn't grow up feeling like they were slaves AND they're mostly still too young for that sort of relationship anyway.

Re: private message to Sally-Anne

[alt_jeremy]

...

Right, then.

If there are no prior examples, guess I've got to be one. Even if it's only an example of letting someone be.

At least I know she's alive and safe and she looks happy. Which is a good deal more than I had before. Or she had. Which is rather the point of all this. Her. Not me. 'S why we're doing it, right?

Thanks.

Re: private message to Sally-Anne

[alt_sally_anne]

Yeah.

I don't know how Maureen feels. I don't know if she'll like you back at some point, or if she'll never feel that way and you just have to try to get over her.

But, you can know that if she DOES decide she likes you, she's making that decision out of her own free will. She's not saying it because she's afraid to refuse, or because she's hoping you'll protect her from your parents.

I don't know if that helps or not.

Re: private message to Sally-Anne

[alt_jeremy]

It does.

I mean, it doesn't make me feel any better at present, but it IS better, if you get the distinction.

Right. So I'll stop blathering at you now. Am sure you've got more than enough in your cauldron to keep track of already.