The Fall of the Death Eaters

After Skylar healed them, the Evreux sisters' lives quickly returned to normal.

Selena was assigned to Miraculous Alchymia, where she became one of Fleur's most capable assistants. No longer did she have to face flashing blades and heaps of corpses. Day after day, she kept company with crucibles, runes, and ledgers. The workshop's busy yet orderly rhythm, its precise procedures and steady results, instead became her best anchor—keeping her thoughts from drifting and teaching her hands once more to remember "creation" rather than "loss."

On quiet nights, she still occasionally thought of the past, but more often, she was now able to calmly welcome a new day amid the morning steam and scent of potions.

Naïs's transfer was personally handled by Professor McGonagall, and she entered Ravenclaw without any obstacles. Blue-and-silver scarves, towers piled high with books, and classmates forever debating questions made her world tangible and bright once more.

Her grades rose steadily, and she showed remarkable talent in spell theory and rune analysis in particular. Busy classes, clubs, and essays filled her time, gradually driving away the nightmares that woke her in the middle of the night.

Both sisters knew perfectly well that if Skylar had not intervened that day, they would already have sunk into an abyss from which there was no return. That gratitude did not fade as their lives stabilized. Instead, it quietly took root in their hearts, gradually becoming a trace of subtle feeling that should not have existed. They carefully hid it away, allowing it to become only more restrained admiration and secret love.

Nock, the Evreux Family's House Elf, also transferred his allegiance to Skylar afterward. His aged body and lingering wounds from the previous battle no longer suited running about or fighting. Skylar did not let him continue wearing himself down,