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*The landscape around him is flat and pale. The sun has just begun to light the clouds across the fields but it hasn't risen high enough yet for warmth and this pre-dawn light gives everything a muted greyscale appearance. It has has taken Regulus days to work up the conviction to leave London and stick to his decision to destroy the Locket, and even now he cannot say for sure if he will be able to make it though another encounter with a Dementor.

He stands in the center of an old dirt road, with expanses of land on either side of him, holding his wand so tightly in his hand his knuckles are completely white and his tendons stand out like taught strings under the pale skin of his hands. His figure stands out against the flatness of the landscape around him. He looks like a short, understuffed scarecrow, dressed all in black but for the sickly golden gleam of the Locket around his neck. He stands there silently for several minutes, trying to become used to the unnatural weight of the Locket and gathering courage to try his plan though part of him hopes it doesn't work.

With the Dementors gone from Azkaban, Regulus doesn't know where to find them. The idea of them roaming the countryside without control or regulation makes his skin shiver, but perhaps it will help his idea to work. Keeping his eyes wide open so nothing can sneak up on him - human or otherwise - and ready to disapparate at a moment's notice, Regulus focuses all his thoughts on his memories of the Dementors. Alone and vulnerable, he turns himself into a emotive beacon reaching out to anything that can hear him, telling them to come.*

Date: 2010-09-06 09:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] batshitscary.livejournal.com
*"-you've seen-" "-us?" "-seldom." "-why do you think that is?"*

Date: 2010-09-06 09:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] batshitscary.livejournal.com
*"Then-" "-we SHALL!" "-do you the honour-" "-of-" "--" "-of your-" "-trinkets."*

Date: 2010-09-06 10:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] batshitscary.livejournal.com
*"Child," "-you are in no position-" "-to-" "-DEMAND." "-it is-" "YOU'RE-" "-burden-" "-to ensure-" "-your-" "-usefulness-" "-outweighs your-" "-flavour."*

Date: 2010-09-06 10:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] batshitscary.livejournal.com
*"-together-" "-we have-" "-LIVE-" "-d." "-millennia." "-you think we've-" "-not encountered-" "-such delicacies?" "--"*

Date: 2010-09-10 08:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] batshitscary.livejournal.com
*The Dementor doesn't speak again, however an image of Barty holding out a pinky in the most sacred oath of the school-yard fills his mind's eye - making it clear that Regulus has sold himself to them already as clammy hands lift the chain away from his neck.*

Date: 2010-09-11 09:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] batshitscary.livejournal.com
*As Regulus is freed from his mental prison once more, the destruction of the Horcrux comes into view. The Dementors have gathered around the main speaker, rattling breathes distinctly anticipatory. However, the actual deed is hardly as craven or dramatic as he might have assumed. Metal meets gaping, cracked lips, and there's a sense of rushing - not unlike the millisecond preamble of a killing curse. Then it ends. The once-sealed doors of the locket falling open, vacant and harmless.*

Date: 2010-09-11 09:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] batshitscary.livejournal.com
*The wraith returns the locket to Regulus' neck - it's undeniably lighter now. It doesn't bother to speak again, the unspoken promise that they'll find Regulus when they need him quite clear.*

Date: 2010-09-11 10:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] batshitscary.livejournal.com
*The raspy gasps of air working in and out of the fleshy hole in the centre of its head almost sounds like a laugh. The creatures begin to disperse, no longer interested in inane human uncertainty now that they cannot feast on it.*

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