“How dare you,” she shrieked.

“Shut the fuck up–”

“– even realise what you’ve done?! You horrible, shitty excuse for a human being, you–”

“Just promise me you'll keep Theo safe, alright?” 

Her jaw snapped shut. She stared at Malfoy as he fumed and panted and glared back. It was strange that in a space so dark, where the only source of illumination were thin shafts of candlelight that had penetrated through the stitching of the tapestry, his eyes managed to glow, as though they carried their own in-built light. Like two pieces of backlit rock crystal, they shone turbulently.

“What...?” she breathed.