IC INBOX for The Last Voyages

[magician_king]

You know what to do.

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[ifoundthem]

Quentin-

With everything that's, ah, happening- is there anything I can get you, or- or do for you while I'm still technically your warden?

[He doesn't, he's decided, much like being in a position of power over his friend at all. It doesn't feel right. But by Merlin's beard he'll do everything in his power to make sure Quentin's prepared, and if that means using what influence he has with the Admiral... so be it.]

[magician_king]

Could you ask for my defensive and offensive magic to be returned?

I know it's a long shot... but this feels like it'll be worse before it's better.

[ifoundthem]

I will. You shouldn't be without it whatever- whatever comes next.

I wish I still had Frank.

[magician_king]

Was Frank a-- was it the hippo thing?

[ifoundthem]

A hippogriff? No. [Newt sighs, looking a little... well, moony.] Frank was a thunderbird. Only reason I came to America, what with the ban on keeping magical creatures.

[magician_king]

Why are you thinking about him now?

[ifoundthem]

Thunderbirds know when danger's coming. Be bloody useful right now, it would.

[magician_king]

Jesus, Newt. Spoiler alert; danger's coming.

[ifoundthem]

Of course danger's coming. It'd still be helpful to know just when.

[He doesn't sound especially anxious about it, though. Just matter of fact.]

[magician_king]

Like an angry feathery geiger counter?

[ifoundthem]

Yes.

...I'm sorry, a what?

[Geiger had discovered the detection principle, but it was still a couple years before counters were actually practical, widely used equipment. And the wizarding world tended to be rather farther behind the technological curve than the Muggles were.]

[magician_king]

It's a machine that beeps when you get close to radioactivity, basically.

[ifoundthem]

Oh. I... I see.

[He doesn't know anything about radiation.]

Frank is how we knew Credence- well, we didn't know it was Credence then, but- when he lost control.

[magician_king]

Have you had any development on working out the magic behind obscurials?

[ifoundthem]

Not- not as such. I'm afraid most of my supplies are for studying and caring for creatures, and I don't dare remove my Obscurus from its containment spell.

[He sighs.]

I'd hoped, once I got home to London, I might convince Professor Dumbledore to help.

[magician_king]

Oh shit I've got to go I forgot a thing-

[Says Quentin, and hangs up, before he can give the game away.

It's just- Dumbledore, okay?]