(Forest) A Letter From An Old Friend

[Gabriella De Conti]

Helia,
The Forbidden Forest at Midnight.
GdC

She stared at the note once again. It was brief and to the point for sure and not at all hard to decipher unless you looked too much into it. But then, that was why she was deliverering it herself and not trusting an owl to make the journey without being caught.

She placed it on the counter praying that Helia would be the first to see it and glanced around the shop once more vaguely wondering if Helia ever just sat at the front instead of working at the back. She smiled and swung her head back over head before leaving without a glance hoping that that letter wouldn't be the one that framed Helia.

[Helia Ollivander]

As the brass bell chimed with the opening and closing of the shop door, Helia hurried into the shop. The door was closing, but there was no one in sight. On the desk lay a note.
After reading it twice [which didn't take long] she smiled, "Well this works out nicely," she thought aloud. She'd sent off a request just earlier about the printing press, and had almost immedeatly recieved a response from her old Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor--'He always was an odd one...' she had thought with a snicker--saying that she could go and get the printing press for the price of a drink. Now she could kill two birds with one stone, both helping her aid the Rogues.

She set the tip of her wand to the edge of the paper and muttered, 'Extermino.' Her wand tip brightened with a deep, cobalt blue flame that leapt onto the paper and began devouring it hungrily. She smiled, walked into the back of her shop and set the letter down in a porcelain bowl. She wasn't taking any chances when it came to Gabriella. Sure, she was wary of the Ministry; she didn't know many people that weren't. But Gabriella... that was someone she did not want to make mad! And at the same time... Helia could not wait for the meeting that night.