Chapter 231: A House-elf’s Loyalty!
Saturday, 28 June 1986
03:00 pm
Inside the library, Darcie and Daphne sat opposite each other, with a small table between them.
On the table was a chessboard. Daphne had white pieces, and Darcie had drawn black. Now, these weren't sets of magical chess pieces. No. Darcie had specially ordered a muggle chess set with nothing special about them.
16 pawns and 16 chess pieces, all wooden, stood lifeless, facing each other.
The trick was — a self-imposed rule to not touch them.
Daphne's nordic blue eyes were narrowed into slits. Today, she was wearing a light green frock emblazoned with little silver birds.
Suddenly, one white pawn moved, slid on the board, and came to rest at the square, e4.
Darcie's d7 pawn moved to d5 as if it was sliding on oil. Her dark green eyes were focused too, but it didn't seem that moving just a pawn had been an arduous task for her.
"What did Pansy say?" Daphne asked, her eyes searching for the next move.