Chapter 418: Train Hard, Lily
Lily finally got Knox settled. His tail slipped off her wrist and swung lazily.
The little thing had puffed up half a dozen times tonight. Now he lay in the crook of her arm with a last string of grumbling purr rattling low in his throat, flattening out under the steady stroke of her hand down his back.
She bent over him, murmuring, one strand of red hair falling across the black fur. Red on black.
Regulus stayed against the sill, watching her, Magic Perception riding along his line of sight.
Nothing much had changed in her magic. If anything, a slow, steady climb.
Every young witch and wizard had that. Age arrived, magic added itself, and there was no hurrying it and no stopping it either.
On the whole, no different from a few weeks back.
Tonight it was lively, though, churning hard. She'd beaten Potter and then told the story with her whole body, and the feeling underneath had pushed her magic up until it bubbled.
Nothing to do with skill. She was happy, that was all.