Chapter 24 – Winter Break (1)
When winter break came, and we were heading back home, Quincy was surprisingly nervous as we sat on the train. I long learned to just... remain quiet and let her mood improve by itself, or else it would devolve into a pointless argument between us. Oh well, she will get over it after we arrive. At least... I really hope so.
"Where does your family live?" She asked me as we were already halfway through our journey, breaking the silence between us.
"In the countryside," I answered, lowering the parchment I was reading and looking at her. "It is an old villa built around the 17th century. I think. I'm not a hundred percent sure."
"I never really left London before." She commented, looking out the window, wiping it with her sleeve, and watching the snowy scenery.
"Then it will be an experience!" I chuckled, putting everything away. "Father is busy at the moment, but our driver will be waiting to pick us up and bring us back to the estate."
"A driver? With a carriage?" She looked at me, surprised.
"Yeah... Something like that. Well, you will see!" I nodded, trying to hold back my laugh... I just remembered that her family, although hailed as one of the most ancient and part of the few distinguished ones in the Sacred Twenty-Eight..., was believed to become the next one to die out, just like the Gaunts.
"I driver.... You are pretty well off..." She murmured, returning to the window after briefly glancing at me.
"Where do you live? Where is the Black's estate?"
"In London." She replied plainly. "It is a big house and all... but empty. It is only my Grandmother, Me... and Kreacher. The house elf."
"Hmm... That sounds..."