HP: Embrace the Darkness

The sun was tilted, and the sun wrapped its warmth around the man who was sleeping with his eyes closed. The pure white shirt was covered with a light and hot halo.

The man in the center of the halo looked distant, neither sad nor happy. For a moment, Joel even felt that he did not exist in this world.

Joel stood for a while, but the ethereal feeling still didn't go away. He decisively walked to Ass' side and called softly.

"Master? Master? Asseth?"

"Aces? Master?"

A familiar voice came from a distant place.

Aces stopped walking towards the depths of the dream and chose to look back.

In reality, the man suddenly opened his eyes.

Asseth was not fully awake, and there was some vigilant murderous intent in his eyes, but not much, but Joel was unprepared for him and was caught off guard. He faced the bloody body and took a step back, bumping into the desk behind him.

"Grandpa Joel?" Artes saw clearly that it was Joel and stretched out his hand to help him, "Grandpa Joel, are you okay?"

Joel was held by Artes with one hand and supported the table with the other, barely able to stand still. His peripheral vision swept across the cold sweat on Artes' forehead calmly, and his standard smile had cracks and was no longer standard.

"Master, do you still remember what you dreamed about just now?"

Asseth thought about it for a moment and shook his head, "I don't remember. I only remember a blank."

"White? Is it sunshine?" Joel asked.

Aces's eyes flickered obscurely, he let go of Joel's hand, and lightly flicked away the dust on his sleeves, "It's not important, Grandpa Joel."

After a short nap, he felt much more energetic. He picked up the report that Joel put on the table with a lazy and calm smile, "I will look at the rest myself. Grandpa Joel, go and take a rest."

The two looked at each other, one high and the other low. Joel couldn't deal with Asseth and turned around and walked away.

The study was so quiet that only the sound of Ass's turning the pages of the report could be heard. He put down the report, rubbed his brows tiredly, and the dream just now appeared in his mind.

——You can't see the end of Shiro. The other side looks like a station. There seem to be two people standing there?

He didn't see who it was, but he saw something else.

These white smoke floats from a distance, and magic power invisible to ordinary people flows in it, maintaining the stability of that space.

Unfortunately, the effect was not great. He accidentally fell asleep and broke in by mistake.

Aces recorded the feeling just now, planning to try to enter that familiar-looking white space next time.

At this moment, Anna came to the study door on time, quietly pushed open the study door, stuck her head out, and looked at Asseth pitifully.

"Baby, aren't you done yet?"

"I'm done, I'll be here right away." Ases finished what he was doing, looked up with a smile, put down the report, stood up and opened the door for Anna.

Anna, like Artes, was always good at hitting snakes with sticks. As soon as Artes opened the door, she walked into Artes' study generously, occupied the sofa in Artes' study, and looked at him with a serious face. Seth.

"Now that you're done, let me ask you a question and you answer it truthfully."

Aces took back the hand that was about to help Anna, squatted in front of her, and looked at her tenderly.

"what is the problem?"

Anna gently moved her cub's hair, but she felt it was not going well, so she withdrew her hand with some disappointment. Artes noticed her disappointment and took the initiative to transform into a little white tiger and lay on Anna's lap.

Anna was always worried about his safety when she was pregnant, and he was exhausted every time he tried to persuade her. One time, he had no solution and went to seek help. Unexpectedly, he found that Anna's anxiety was not that serious in the presence of the black panther.

Driven by curiosity and desire to survive, he conducted a small experiment and found that Anna was more likely to be emotionally stable when she had a furry animal on her hands.

Every time Anna gets anxious later, he turns into a little white tiger, which greatly alleviates his anxiety and Anna's anxiety, creating a win-win situation.

Touching the shiny fur of the little white tiger, Anna's expression relaxed visibly. She touched Ass's head to his back and said with a smile, "Don't be nervous, it's not a big deal."

She glanced at the window and said, "It's been a few days since I came back. Do you still remember when I came back?"

Little White Tiger nodded.

Anna continued: "It's been so many days and I haven't seen Severus. Has he been busy recently? I have some gifts I want to give him."

Aces flicked his tail and hooked Anna's hand. Anna understood and opened her palm.

The tail flexibly wrote "yes" on Anna's hand.

Ana frowned in disappointment, "Then when will he be free, or should I go see him?"

As she spoke, she happily took out a lot of specialties from various places, including food and clothing.

Of course, among so many gifts, the most numerous ones are all kinds of potion materials - everyone knows the potion master's love for potions.

Seeing that Anna had already stood up holding the gift and leaving him behind, Artes was furious, and his tail desperately wrapped around Anna's hand to prevent her from leaving.

"Okay, why are you jealous of Severus? Just wait here for your mother to come home."

With a look of doting and helplessness, Anna patted the little white tiger on the head so hard that the little white tiger staggered and fell face down on the sofa.

Anna burst out laughing. She realized that she was laughing too loudly, so she covered her mouth nervously. She rolled her eyes and looked at the desk beside her.

"Aces, look, this job is really high, ah, this is so much work."

Asseth came back in annoyance, sat on the sofa and pulled Anna's clothes, "Mother, your perfunctory excuses for me are getting more and more perfunctory."

"Didn't you also say that it was perfunctory? Then what's wrong with me being perfunctory?" Anna muttered, glaring at Asseth extremely arrogantly.

Asseth put on a straight face, waved his hand and took away the gift Anna took out, and smiled slightly in her disbelieving eyes.

"As compensation for the harm I suffered, I have temporarily confiscated these gifts. I will hand them over to Sifu personally when he is free later."

Anna was extremely angry and reached out to grab it. Asses was afraid that she would grab it lightly and throw him off, so he obeyed her actions and let her pull out the alchemy ring.

The alchemy ring has restrictions, and Asseth is not worried that the contents inside will be discovered.

Anna fiddled with it for a while, and realized one thing after many failures - her son was better than his master, and she could no longer teach her son in terms of alchemy alone.

This realization made Anna a little frustrated, and she no longer wanted to play with the alchemy ring she just grabbed.

Seeing that Anna was unhappy, Asseth thought she was angry and he didn't show it to her.

What's so cool about this.

Asseth sighed helplessly, thought for a while, took the alchemy ring, opened it, and handed it to Anna again.

"There is nothing in it. It is just daily necessities, props and materials that you are accustomed to. You can take away whatever you like."

Anna's interest came and went as quickly as it came. After flipping through Asseth's alchemy ring for a few minutes, she lost interest and reluctantly returned the ring.

Perseverance brings the topic back.

"Why don't you let me see Severus? Did you have a fight? I can help break up the fight."