Order Only: Cecilia Perks

[alt_molly]

I managed to meet with Cecilia Perks today alone, and she has finally come to a decision to accept our help and throw her lot in with the Sherwood band. I think receiving her own wand really helped tip the balance in her mind. Accepting being stuck under Leo's control just isn't bearable for her any more, now that she has the power in her hands again to do her own spells and charms. She is insistent that her death must be faked so that Leo will have no idea she has escaped ('he won't miss me,' she said bitterly, which quite broke my heart), but she hopes that her daughter will be allowed to know the truth.

To be blunt, I'm afraid we need a body, recently deceased, one that we can transfigure into her semblance.

Any ideas?

Comments

[alt_bill]

You know, Mum, usually people have the opposite problem when it comes to bodies. Trying to get rid of them, rather than trying to produce one.

[alt_molly]

Perhaps I prefer not following the crowd, then!

[alt_hermione]

Couldn't you transfigure a dead animal? Mr Shacklebolt did that once, didn't he, to help Davidson escape MLE.

[alt_frank]

harder to fool a husband.

we could do things that'd make it tougher to recognise basic features, but it'd need to be convincing, and it's easier to transfigure details when you have a person to start with.

[alt_frank]

might do some old-fashioned grave robbing, molly. some of the larger private farms might have their own graveyards, and they'd be easier to get to than the camps. less likely to have protective wards than a family tomb.

[alt_kingsley]

Problem with that is that the body probably wouldn't be very, uh, fresh. Which could be a problem.

[alt_lee]

Ick.

[alt_kingsley]

Yeah.

Molly, let me talk with Davidson and Turner. They have quite a network of information established in several of the camps now, and it could be that one of their informants in one might work in an infirmary, or with records detail. They might have some ideas.

[alt_frank]

might be a security risk if we hover around waiting for a new addition, too.

damn, this is morbid.