He sits back in his chair, checking his own frustration. "What else were we going to be?" Lucius has already established that Narcissa's alternate is family, if a strange sort; they could hardly do any less for an alternate of his own.
Quieter, he adds, "You could have come to us sooner, you know."
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Quieter, he adds, "You could have come to us sooner, you know."