Re: Septimus and Quintella
She shook her head, standing firm on this, at least. She didn't do it often, or with much, but she did with this. She loved him best of all her family, unless you counted her children, but that was different. He'd been hers since she was little, in so many ways.
"Well then the wrong sort were there," she said, brushing her hands over his lapel. "Blind idiots, them. Obviously you're better than all of them." Ella was very rarely speaking ill of anyone, but her brother was more important to her than any strangers and obviously they were blind.