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[strayed]

[The video clicks on to show Cora looking really annoyed about the fact it's video. She'd prefer to go text, but if there's the off chance seeing her face will speed this process up, she's going to take it. It's been several hours since the memories started again, and she's already nursing a migraine. If there was one thing she could say she completely hated, these days, it was feeling ill.]

I'm looking for a guy called Sirius. Padfoot.

[Her tone conveys exactly what she thinks of both these names.]

If that isn't enough I've got a head full of waving sticks around and flying on brooms. And motorcycles. Hogwarts. Gryffindor. Regulus and Slytherin.

[That last one might be straying too close to the things she doesn't think she should broadcast openly, and she frowns, looking even more annoyed - even if it's actually at herself.]

Just respond so I can get rid of this damn headache already.

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[voice]

[strayed]

Sure.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

[A slight pause, because she didn't pause.]

And that causes you no shame at all?

[voice]

[strayed]

Did you miss the part where I said I don't care?

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Such a lack of empathy is quite thoroughly inexcusable.

[voice]

[strayed]

I'm not interested in what's excusable. I'm interested in getting rid of this headache before I start bleeding again.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Well, that will happen. It just takes a bit of patience. Honestly, the headache isn't even that bad.

[voice]

[strayed]

What happened to empathy?

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Consider my empathetic act the one in which I spare you the burden of kindness, given your clear contempt for it.

[voice]

[strayed]

You should just spare me the burden of hearing you talk.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Is that a request?

[voice]

[strayed]

It's a suggestion.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

I thank you for it most kindly, and decline to listen to it.

[voice]

[strayed]

You don't even have anything more to say.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

You think not?

[voice]

[strayed]

I'm not going to repeat myself.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

Believe me, madam, if you think I cannot continue talking once I've exhausted the topic at hand, you do not know me at all; I am a lawyer. But I see that Mr. Black has found you, and so at this point I will allow this absurdity to end, if for nothing else than the fact that I relish the thought of not needing to engage with your phenomenal rudeness any longer.

[voice]

[strayed]

So you're done.

[voice]

[jurisimpudent]

I am quitting the conversation. Yes.

[voice]

[strayed]

[Just silently waiting for you to hang up then, Edgeworth.]