[When did that become such a natural response to stress? He's not sure, but he's grateful for it anyway - it's something to do, and a reason to become solid enough to do it, when he's been blurring restlessly in and out of having any kind of form.]
[Knowing Sirius is coming is also a good reason to pull himself together enough to look roughly human, and not like a dark, shrouded shape. He knows that makes his brother uncomfortable. So it's a fairly ordinary-looking, if tired and rather shadowy, Regulus who answers the door when Sirius does arrive.]
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I'll put the kettle on.
[When did that become such a natural response to stress? He's not sure, but he's grateful for it anyway - it's something to do, and a reason to become solid enough to do it, when he's been blurring restlessly in and out of having any kind of form.]
[Knowing Sirius is coming is also a good reason to pull himself together enough to look roughly human, and not like a dark, shrouded shape. He knows that makes his brother uncomfortable. So it's a fairly ordinary-looking, if tired and rather shadowy, Regulus who answers the door when Sirius does arrive.]