it's playing like a wreck

He held Hazel tightly to him, breathing a little quicker. He was surrounded by her scent, her voice in his ears. Why did a part of him feel as if he had come close to losing her? He didn’t want to lose Azure, and the thought made him feel sick. It twisted up something in his insides. But the thought of losing Hazel? It was so much worse. Like a cold sweat, like waking up in a nightmare and realising you can’t move. Can’t speak, can’t do anything but suffer.

He sighed again, registering her change of subject. But it was easier to talk about Sirius, then it was to talk about them. “He thinks Sirius has betrayed Zee, that it didn’t take him very long to get over his Wife. Azure’s mother. If comes back and sees Isa and Sirius together, he thinks he’ll be driven to kill Sirius. So he’s staying away, instead”He explained. It did make his dad sound a little unhinged, didn’t it? More proof to the points Hazel made. No one rationally spoke of fighting their fathers to the death.

"Speech"