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[Something large, hulking crosses your window.]

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[Draco has never much liked it here, in this tumbledown ruin with nothing but the dead to keep him company. He's always found it disquieting, setting his stomach to trembling even as he approaches from overhead, the faint groaning of long-forgotten ghosts whispering so faintly on the edge of his hearing that he might almost believe it was all in his head.]

[Tonight, however, only a heavy silence greets his return and Draco isn't entirely sure which he prefers. He sweeps cautiously over the rotting eaves of the tallest keep, the tips of his vast wings grazing across rubble, some of it scattering like dust in the air. There are no souls here tonight, no restless murmurs and he cannot understand why.]

[Warily, he eases himself down into the ramshackle courtyard, his talons clacking uneasily against the hard cobbles, sniffing at the air. There's something amiss...]