Chapter 244: Go, Bring Them Back for Me
Two o'clock, the Library.
Regulus sat in his usual spot by the window, a bound volume of back issues of Transfiguration Today open before him, stopped at a page somewhere in the middle. He hadn't turned it.
Time was up.
Finding books was a task anyone could handle. Madam Pince would have been more efficient than Samuel and Lina combined. She could locate any title with her eyes shut.
Bringing them here was about evaluation.
Could they get things done? How well? And what was their attitude afterward?
At two sharp, the pair appeared at the far end of the stacks.
Regulus didn't look up. He knew they'd been waiting outside for twenty minutes.
He even knew they'd been pacing the corridor, glancing at the clock on the wall, breathing fast then slow, their magical fluctuations rising and falling in time.