"You're awake?" In the mezzanine of the Astronomy Tower, Brian grabbed Lucius Malfoy by the hair and lifted his head, saying coldly, "Then let's begin."
The magical fluctuations of Legilimency rose from his hand and plunged straight into Lucius Malfoy's brain-at this point, he had no intention of observing any rules with Death Eaters.
These things were like irritating, virus-carrying flies, rushing to land at the slightest scent. The best end for them was to suffer in Azkaban until the end of their lives, rotting and stinking.
A muffled groan of pain escaped Lucius's throat. The Occlumency he took such pride in was easily breached. Brian searched back and forth carefully for five minutes and discovered a laughable fact.
"You risked your life serving Voldemort, even coming to Hogwarts, yet he kept everything from you and treated you as a servant he could discard at any time-no, a dog?"
Brian spoke mockingly-he had actually failed to find any clues to Voldemort's specific whereabouts in Lucius's memories.
All he knew was that Voldemort occasionally appeared at Malfoy Manor to give Lucius assignments. Now that Lucius had been caught red-handed, Voldemort had probably already squeezed every last bit of value out of the Malfoy family.
"-Hh! Hh!" Lucius seemed enraged, struggling to make some ugly noises.
"What do you want to say?" Brian restored Lucius's ability to speak, sealing off his access to his magical power in passing.
"Phew-thank you! Listen to me, I'm the only one serving the Dark Lord. Narcissa and Draco are innocent. Draco has no idea what the task I gave him means, and I sent Narcissa to France long ago!"
For the first time while conscious, Lucius Malfoy bowed his supposedly noble head to Brian, his voice full of pleading.
"This has nothing to do with them,