"It's the closest I'll ever have to a pet, that's for sure," Millicent said. "And I do laundry. Sometimes. Mostly when I run out of clothes and I have a lot of clothes."
She started pulling bags of flour, sugar and so on out of the cupboards. "If Theo stops talking to you over this I'll just pick him up and put him in a tree. I mean, he's little, I can totally do that. Timeout, Millicent-style."
She needed a recipe too. Pulling pieces of parchment, some with recipes on both sides, out of a drawer, she tried to find the right one. It had to be a veritable chocolate bomb. Nothing else was acceptable today.
"You know me," she said, waving the questions away. "Mostly I've walked around being all queer. All shamelessly too. Inside the Ministry! And the first thing I do is coming across these bullshit pamphlets, with pictures of gay people, just so everyone knows what they look like. I guess that's so everyone can see that we don't have huge flashing signs or anything around our necks. Yet, anyway."