PRIVATE TO CASSIOPEIA
I won't forgive you for the things you said. They were mean-spirited, cruel, and unbefitting of any polite conversation. You should have kept your opinions to yourself, Cassiopeia, and though I think you owe an apology to Septimus, I know you're too proud of an individual to actually do it. So neither shall I apologise for what I said in retaliation to you. It's a closed issue, as far as I'm concerned, and I will not mention a word of what you said again, and I expect you to abide this agreement.
END PRIVATE

PRIVATE TO CALLIDORA
I just wrote to Cassiopeia. Hopefully this will be a closed chapter.
END PRIVATE

I hate it when Lysandra tells me what I'm going to do. I'm twenty years old, I'm an adult by wizarding standards and I am fully capable of making decisions for myself. If I don't want to go to Diagon Alley for a day of shopping, I expect to do something other than that. And yet this is seemingly an issue that required lots of arguing and shouting and broken things before she left me alone.

I had dinner with Septy last week at this really lovely place we saw on New Years and it was absolutely delightful though I worried he might not be able to afford it was so cold, and so wet. I had to cast a few quick spells to keep my shoes from getting wet.

I miss my sisters since they've gone back to Hogwarts and once again I'm left to wonder at how empty this house becomes once they've left. I'm the only one up here and it's like a bloody dungeon. I've been talking to the mirror for company, for Merlin's sake! I might go down to the kitchens and make a pot of tea since I haven't been feeling well for a few days. I think I might have caught something.