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| Rabastan Lestrange was not a happy camper. It was three in the morning. The streets were empty. No muggle vehicles were flying by, polluting the environment and sending out diseases to people in little take out bags. A few muggles walked by now and again, but none of them paid any attention to Rabastan. The street he was standing on was not brightly lit, with only a few streetlights doing the brightening. About three of the ten streetlights Rabastan could see were lit and doing their job. The other seven or so were broken, the bulb had burnt out, or someone had just smashed it up. Several tall buildings surrounded Mr. Lestrange, and only a few lights were on. He could see the figure of a young lady in one of the buildings, high up on the seventh floor or so. He watched her for a moment, until she disappeared from view and the light went out. An excellent question on could ask would be why Rabastan Lestrange was standing on this empty street at three in the morning. The reason? There was absolutely no reason. Rabastan had come from his apartment, which was very far from the center of London. He hated the city, what with all its bright lights and muggle and pollution. He prefered living away from the hustle and bustle that was London. He liked quiet, peace, isolation. This street was one of the few that was not lit so well that it seemed like three in the afternoon. He despised that as well. If it was dark, let it be. Human beings were scared of the dark because it was unfamiliar territory. Why should they love the dark when they're surrounded by lights and glowing streetlamps? He envied vampires. No wonder they preferred the night. Not only would they not get their skin burned off of them, but they could enjoy the quiet and darkness that was three in the morning. He was very much alone, and had left his apartment because of it. The apartment was cheap, decent size but a horrible place to stay if you wanted peace and quiet. His neighbors? All muggles. A few wizards here and there, but none worth talking with. So why did Mr. Lestrange, Death Eater and anti-muggle, live there with all the dirty blood? He could be infected or something, and we couldn't have that. He lived there because he could, and if a better reason ever popped into his head he would use that one instead. Every other apartment building he could find was either in the center of the city of filled to the brim with muggles. At least where he was staying, if he killed one of them no one would know for at least three weeks. That would only be because the body would start to smell. He had been tempted quite a few times by his horribly obnoxious neighbors, he had almost killed one of them. But that would not have been the best idea for a Death Eater. Rabastan did not want the Order to know where he lived. If they did, he'd move. Still, the answer to the question asked previously has not been answered correctly. Yes, he had come to escape his neighbors, but there had been another reason. He had dropped something. What had he dropped, well, it was a muggle quarter. "But Lestrange hates Muggles! Why would he have muggle money?!?" The reason for his caring so much about this particular piece of muggle money was because he wanted to spend it. On a gumball. He loved gum. He didn't go into a store and buy a pack, usually because he didn't have any muggle money, and when he did it wasn't enough. He couldn't imagine spending a piece of wizard money on this particular treat. He had found a quarter earlier the previous day, and had saved it to buy a gumball from the lobby in his apartment complex. He had gone back to his apartment about five hours ago, at about ten o'clock. He had gone and taken out a coin to use for the gumball, and yet the coin was not a muggle quarter. He sighed to himself, and had gone back up to his room to go to sleep. But the muggles next door had not allowed that to happen, playing their 'music' as loudly as could be. So Rabastan had left, at about two thirty, to get away and find his quarter. He had just found his quarter, but did not want to pick it up. Someone had conviently spat on it, which wouldn't have been a problem if the spit wasn't brown and disgusting looking and had a piece of gum attached to the quarter. He glared at it in disgust, and turned away. He sighed to himself, not happy with the present situation, and flinched as one of the three streetlamps that were lit blew out. Now there were two. That was just lovely. |
