They Apparate there, the soundless, black-smoke slipping between instances only the men and women trained in the darkest of arts know. Severus wastes no time once they arrive, and walks right up to the landing of the townhouse as soon as he's corporeal - and as soon as Lucius is over the threshold behind him, he twists his hand beside him, and the house seals shut with a groan, and a crackle of magic.
There are two men and one woman in the sitting room, and to their credit, they are not shocked into silence - there's yelling, grabbing for weapons, shouting angrily, demands - Severus casts a stun spell and only one man falls; apparently the other two have some kind of protective talismans about them. The woman rushes Severus and he lets her, then catches her a foot from him in the grip of a spell that splits the joints in her knees and shoulders. She screams, he murmurs a summoning spell that yanks the talismans off her. Above them, thunderous footsteps of people beginning to bolt downstairs can be heard.
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There are two men and one woman in the sitting room, and to their credit, they are not shocked into silence - there's yelling, grabbing for weapons, shouting angrily, demands - Severus casts a stun spell and only one man falls; apparently the other two have some kind of protective talismans about them. The woman rushes Severus and he lets her, then catches her a foot from him in the grip of a spell that splits the joints in her knees and shoulders. She screams, he murmurs a summoning spell that yanks the talismans off her. Above them, thunderous footsteps of people beginning to bolt downstairs can be heard.