"I think I can understand your friend's impulse," he says, bemused. "It is not easy to fetch such a high price on one's head. Especially before one has had a chance to graduate."
He's curious, admittedly. One does not carry such a bounty lightly, not even with the Ministry at its most paranoid. But he also knows how tides shift, how public favor tended to shift like sand beneath one's feet in times of difficulty.
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Date: 2022-05-12 03:10 am (UTC)He's curious, admittedly. One does not carry such a bounty lightly, not even with the Ministry at its most paranoid. But he also knows how tides shift, how public favor tended to shift like sand beneath one's feet in times of difficulty.