IC INBOX for The Last Voyages

[magician_king]

You know what to do.

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[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?]