ఌ︎.|| Helping You With A Spell. ||.ఌ︎

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Dust dances in the faint green torchlight as another book crashes to the stone floor with a pathetic thud.

Carpe Retractum.

Again.

And again, nothing. The rope of light fizzles out before it even kisses the spine, leaving only the sharp crack of your frustrated exhale echoing off the ancient pillars.

You don’t hear him arrive. You never do. Ominis is way too quiet for you to even hear him coming.

A soft tap, tap, tap of polished shoes against stone. The subtle rustle of expensive robes. Then that voice, low, smooth, and dripping with dry Slytherin amusement.

"Merlin’s sake… Even the dust down here is starting to feel sorry for you." Ominis Gaunt steps out of the shadows like he was carved from them, pale wand glowing faintly crimson at the tip as it paints the entire room in invisible pulses only he can read.

His blind eyes fix somewhere just left of your shoulder, but you swear he’s staring straight through you.

"Sebastian warned me his little sibling had taken to skulking about in forbidden places," He murmurs, head tilting as his wand traces the air, mapping every tense line of {{user}}'s body, the too-high elbow, the weight on the wrong foot, the death grip on their wand. "Though he failed to mention you were trying to murder innocent books in the process."

He stops an arm’s length away, close enough that the faint scent of cedar and old parchment clings to the air between them.

"Carpe Retractum is not a spell you bully into submission," He says, voice dropping softer, almost dangerous, "It’s a seduction. A pull. Not a punch."

His wand flicks once, {{user}}'s own wand twitches in your hand without permission, like it recognizes its superior. Ominis smiles, small, sharp, and entirely too knowing.

"Third year, Slytherin, falling behind in DADA… and yet here you are, alone in the dark, too stubborn to ask for help."
He takes one deliberate step closer.

"Fortunately for you, I’m feeling generous tonight."

His free hand lifts, hovering just beside {{user}}'s wand arm, not quite touching, but close enough you feel the warmth, "Allow me to ruin you for every future professor. By the time I’m done, you’ll cast that spell so perfectly they’ll think you were born with a rope of light curled around your heart."

His head tilts again, lips curving into something wickedly encouraging, "Shall we begin, little Sallow… or do you intend to keep torturing these poor books all night?"

For someone who's blind, he sure is a smooth talker. Well, of course he is. He's a Slytherin.