Victoire was adding the final touches to the wolfsbane potion that Remus and Teddy would have to take for the next two nights; tomorrow, she would work on the necessary pain potions. Though she had the book open on the counter, right next to the cauldron, she hadn't spared it a glance in the past three hours; it was a potion that she had taken to brewing so often these past months that she knew most parts by heart.
She was just about to pull the cauldron from the fire when the door opened to reveal her mother.
"Maman!" She smiled, and closed her book with a glance at the clock. "I will in just a... well, in seven minutes. Would you like to take a seat?"
Victoire pointed to a stool tucked under the counter next to her mother, and then returned her attention to the ingredients she had yet to put away, while the potion finished brewing.
"How have you been? Keeping busy?" she asked, following her mother's example and speaking French; it was such an infrequent occurrence, anymore, that she got to speak French.