Hearing the sound of the door opening outside, Daisy—though she had no idea why they had used the front door—sprang up from the sofa, gripped her wand, rushed over, and hid behind the door to wait for it to open.
"Ha! Allen! Surrender now! Take my—uh?"
"Urk!"
She hooked one arm around Allen's neck and nearly lifted both his feet off the floor, but then she saw the old man behind Allen and her father, and her movements froze.
"Daisy, put your Younger Brother down right now! This is Mr. Gellert Grindelwald!" Owen barked, then forced a somewhat awkward smile at Grindelwald. "This is my eldest daughter, Daisy. At home, they don't stand on ceremony and are always roughhousing..."
"It is a good thing for a family when the children are close." Grindelwald noticed out of the corner of his eye that Daisy had set Allen back on the floor before turning his head, as though only then noticing her. "Miss Harris, your eyes are very much like your grandfather's. Very beautiful."
That left the already somewhat embarrassed Daisy too shy to speak. She meant to laugh once in reply, but when the sound came out, she realized her voice had cracked.
"Daisy! Why did you grab me?!" Allen, now set down, complained in complete bafflement over being attacked.
"Welcome, Mr. Grindelwald." Morgan le Fay, who had originally been lying on the sofa, froze for a moment when she saw the white-haired wizard Owen and Allen had brought back. Once she came to herself, she immediately got up, no longer caring that she was not properly dressed, then shot Owen a glare. "I am terribly sorry. We were not prepared in advance, and Owen did not tell us beforehand. How rude of us."
"Mrs. Harris, the Harris family and the