HP X LOTM : Please Call Me Mr. Error.

"Miss Trelawney? When will brother come back?" Elane asked while Cassandra continued to brush her hair as they lay on the bed with Elane reading to Cassandra the stories Loki gave to her.

Cassandra smiled lightly as Elane struggled to stay awake, rubbing her eyes as they tried to shut away and keep her from her brother.

"We'll go to Diagon Alley once you are awake tomorrow. He promised to meet you there, didn't he?"

Elane pouted cutely before she complained-

"Big Brother is bad, he never comes home…"

Cassandra gave Elane a warm smile before smiling and telling her a simple solution-

"Then why don't you invite Big Brother home?"

Elane's eyes widened suddenly as if she'd learnt of a great secret unknown to most.

She then turned towards Cassandra and gave her an everlasting gaze as if she didn't trust Cassandra very much which caused Cassandra to laugh a little-

"What happened?"

"If Miss Trelawney knew this, then why did she tell Elane only now? Does Miss Trelawney not want Big Brother to come home?"

Cassandra simply chuckled a bit and shook her head before explaining calmly-

"You know everyone takes away their favourite member of our family once they come here, don't they? What if Big Brother takes you away?"

Elane's eyes widened once again before she narrowed her eyes to think hard about it all.

Then as if satisfied with a solution she had come up with, Elane nodded to herself and put on a satisfied smile.

"If Big Brother wants me he can stay here forever!"

Cassandra simply smiled and shook her head before giving Elane a soft pat.

"Come, let's go. Elanore must be waiting for you."

Elane nodded quickly-

"Hm~m, hm~m!"

Quickly getting down from the bed, Elane jumped onto her stubby legs, balancing using her hands as she picked up the book she was reading and walked towards the bookshelf in Cassandra's room.

Elane carefully stuffed the book back in its place before extending her hand for Cassandra to take it and walk with her to her bed.

Cassandra did just that and they entered another room with seven children in it, sharing bunk beds with most fast asleep.

There was a soft bluish glow to the room because of the bedside lamp on one of the walls beside which another girl was sitting, nodding off as she continuously fell asleep and woke herself up.

Elane quickly, but silently so that no one else would be disturbed, rushed to her and gave her a hug.

"Elanore!!" Elane said excitedly.

Elanore woke up, just barely, and once her gaze landed on Elane she spoke lazily, "Did…finish talking…brother?" 

Elane only nodded, even though she hadn't been able to talk to Loki today because he hadn't used the two-way mirror today.

Elanore hugged Elane before simply tucking herself into her bed while pulling Elane with her.

Cassandra smiled as she watched this before covering the two girls with a thin blanket-

"Good night Miss Trelawney." Elane spoke softly before dozing away herself.

Cassandra nodded and left the room.

She closed the door softly behind herself, but instead of leaving, Cassandra stood behind it.

Then with a simple and soft *sigh* Cassandra expelled spiritually, causing it to vibrate as a soft poem recited itself.

The girls in the room who were already fast asleep had their minds pulled into a fantastical dream that would make sure to keep them occupied.

Cassandra didn't even have to turn around when she quickly knelt down as she realised someone else was in the corridor with her.

"Good work Cassandra. I shall put in a good word for your daughter with Albus."

Cassandra only nodded as the man simply walked past her while grabbing her wand and opening the door to the girls' room.

None of the girls woke up, courtesy of Cassandra's spell, copied from the darkness pathway from her trusted friend Walburga, as Grindelwald moved with purpose towards Elane's bed.

Standing over the girl, Grindelwald looked at Eleanor for a few seconds as he reminisced about something before simply flicking his hand and pushing her away.

Then with his wand out, Grindkewand tapped it onto Elane's temple.

"Carcerem lucem."

A soft glow caused the wand in Grindelwald's hand to tremble.

There was a soft flicker for a second which caused Grindlewald to frown for a few seconds, but once he poured in a little bit more spirituality into the spell, the light at the end of his wand sunk into Elane's mind.

Elane shifted around a little uncomfortable as if she were having a nightmare as she clawed the sheets with her tiny hands.

But Grindlewald only smiled when that happened.

He nodded to himself and walked out soundlessly, dropping off Cassandra's wand into her hand before he vanished just as silently as he'd arrived.

Cassandra who had been staring at the floor the entire time, raised her head.

Her eyes trembled with focus and anger for a few minutes as she wordlessly looked at Elane through the door.

She then *sighed* softly as she closed the door, her lips moving barely as she whispered into the night.

"Numbskull has no idea what he's messing with."

Loki sat in his seat in the Sefirah Castle as he stared at the card of Blasphemy in his hands.

"Advancement Ritual."

"Parasitize a fundamental force that is being observed by several higher level beings and change its function. The higher the level of the beings deceived by the change and the greater their number the smoother the advancement."

Loki looked at it and *sighed* softly.

He has a clear idea of what he wanted to do, but felt a little hesitant to act on it since the risk was too great if he got caught with it.

"The only fundamental force that I know about which is being observed by several higher level beings is magic…"

"I can parasitise the system of magic to include my own spells in its catalogue so that people begin using them…"

"But I don't doubt that the other gods good or evil will do their best to figure out how I did this…and they might even go to extreme lengths to try and get to me for this knowledge…"

"Hmm…I just need to keep Elane safe…while making absolutely sure no one catches onto my tail…"

"Is it possible though?"

"If I want to parasitise the system of magic I need to set up an individual and new system from scratch in its entirety…so that I can grant those spells with the help of a Worm Of Time inside the Sefirah Castle."

"This would ensure anonymity…but this isn't really parasitism of the existing system…is it?"

"To hack into the original system I'll need access to the Chaos Sea…"

"Or…I could piggy back onto the system used by a different god and make a deal with them…"

"I did free Rowena…I could ask her for the location of the Chaos Sea, but I could also ask her to let me piggy back onto her connection…"

"But if I ask her for permission, it's no longer Parasitism is it? That's more of a symbiotic relationship…"

"Hmmm…"

"Or, now that I'm sequence 4 and my Dream Stealer abilities are stronger…I could search for the Chaos Sea through the Sea of Subconscious…"

"But will I be able to do something if even 'Adam' couldn't do it?"

Loki thought hard about it for a few seconds before a strange idea took hold of his mind.

"Could I use the convergence of the Sefirahs with each other because they are part of the Original Creator to trace the others?"

Loki frowned when he thought of this since it meant exposing himself to the Original Creator's will and could potentially cause him to awaken the Original Creator in himself.

"...that's too risky…for now, I could just implement my own system using the Sefirah Castle and then somehow merge it with the system of the Chaos Sea once I have access to it in some other way…"

"Interesting."

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