Lucius stands too. "You don't think I know that?" he asks, quietly. "The moment Bellatrix got here, she jabbed the damn thing." He doesn't feel the need to specify that he means the Mark.
"It still aches, and he's not even in the same universe we are, at present. I know what's at stake, I'm not a fool."
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"It still aches, and he's not even in the same universe we are, at present. I know what's at stake, I'm not a fool."