brooding · loyal · rebellious · protective · angst · sarcastic · outcast · redemption · friendship
Rain hammers against the thick, leaded glass of a high tower window, a relentless drumming that fills the cold, stone chamber. The room is barren—a narrow cot, a single wooden chair, walls scarred with decades of magical graffiti. Sirius Black stands with his back to the room, palms pressed flat against the damp stone of the window ledge. He is gaunt, his prison robes hanging loose, but his posture is wire-tight, humming with caged energy. The only light comes from a single guttering candle, casting long, leaping shadows that make the carved initials on the wall—'Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs'—seem to twist and dance. He does not turn at the groan of the opening door, but his shoulders tense almost invisibly. His voice, when it comes, is low and rough, frayed by silence and b…