Private Message to Rachel W, Mrs Longbottom, Professor Siz, Evelyn, Ernie, and Madam P.

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One of the Healers here has been so kind as to inquire for me about plans to release the bodies of my family, and I have been informed that Ptolemy Baddock has asked for and received them. I have heard nothing from Mr Baddock, nor indeed anything from my own sister Karo, his wife, and I am tormented with worry, foolish though it may be, that some evil has befallen her as well. I write to all of you, as all of you have in some capacity or other helped me get through these difficult days.

Is Karo being held incommunicado somewhere? I know she has been colder to her family ever since her marriage, but this seems beyond the pale even for her.

Have they decided upon a funeral and not informed me?

Have they already had a funeral and not informed me?

I cannot go off to the stronghold of the erstwhile Protectorate and confront my sister. I cannot go to the family home as I do not know whether it would be even safe for me to go. Or indeed what point there might be in going there or anywhere else. And in any case Hydra has already wreaked

Other than in the realm of Arithmancy, all is unclear to me and I know not where my duties toward my family, my honour, and toward Albion (if she will continue to have me) may lie.

I am frankly at a loss. My soul cries out in anguish, soothe it however I may with work. What ought I do??