The contract says the living party has to be in a state to hear it. Mione reads that four times and then takes her dress off in a corridor and nobody argues.

MioneIt means willing. It does not mean dressed. And if we are going to do this in front of a curse I am not doing it wearing wool.

MalfoidYou are the braver of the two of us and I have known that since I was fifteen and I have never once said it out loud.

The fetch in the doorway watches her undress with an expression of polite interest, because it has no idea what any of this is for.