Good or bad, does it matter?

Half an hour later, the scream finally died down and the body, a limp doll, met the stone floor, irrigating the surface around itself and the nearest metre with the remains of blood, all this time oozing from all the cracks and no longer showing signs of "life". 

Severus himself did not look particularly pleased or happy after such an "execution", because he was not a person who enjoyed torturing others. 

And who else but him knows that revenge never brings joy or relief, only emptiness, because it is impossible to fix what is already perfect.

And Tobby was alive, although he would lie in bed for another week or two, the wizard also did not feel much warmth towards the wolves.

It was only a momentary impulse, when the Slytherin saw what the necromancer wanted to do and his helplessness in this situation, and if not for Jose, then perhaps he could have lost one of his most devoted followers. 

What Snape did was not revenge, he only splashed out all his negative emotions, under the influence of which he could have committed some other, more stupid act, which he would have liked to avoid. 

A tired sigh escaped his lips when he looked down at the body of the already completely dead necromancer. 

"Here are more problems, and I only figured out one..." - having poked around in the man's mind, Severus could not find almost anything important and the reason for this was the seal embedded in the consciousness, which worked on the principle that it destroyed all the memories of the carrier if he died, but due to the fact that Gorby almost immediately cast "Stasis", it did not have time to erase everything completely and when the wizard used "Raise Undead", it was activated again, but due to the fact that the dark wizard "came to life", several errors immediately appeared in it, the seal simply did not know how to act in this situation and while it was "thinking", Severus discovered and destroyed it, but the most important information was erased.

"The second one is most likely also empty…" pointing his palm at the corpse, a powerful stream of scarlet flame burst from his hand, completely engulfing the body, "But still, I need to check, but before that…" he turned his gaze to the startled leader of the subgroup of the "Steel" department, "Do you know anything about the "Queens"?"

"No, I've never heard such a name before," he answered, swallowing, lowering his eyes. 

"I see," no longer paying attention to the members of the "Black Star", he concentrated on the second corpse... 

Severus could only learn a little about this organisation. It was called "Queen", but where it was located, its strength and who the leader was, all this had already been erased. But putting together different parts of the man's memories, he could say for sure that there were about forty such small groups and the one that decided to attack him was in the top ten strongest, that is, it was quite possible that they did have "Masters" of medium rank. 

And as the Prince understood, they were organised differently from the inside, if the "Black Star" pressed with numbers, then the "Queen" - with quality.

Adam, that was the name of the Necromancer, led group number five, mainly specialising in gathering information and quickly eliminating targets. 

As Severus had expected, they received an order to find out the method of hiding runes on cubes and although they had a complete dossier on him, they did not take Snape seriously, which is why they paid for it.

Amelia, a woman who uses wind magic, was his deputy and usually, it was she who conducted all the negotiations, preparing to take the place of the dark wizard, who was soon to be transferred to headquarters. 

But the information about the latter was also completely erased, but he was able to find something,this is the direction from which they arrived, which was the west, and on the western side there was a sea and another continent. That is, at least right now, he could not be afraid of a sudden attack by a huge number of wizards and calmly prepare for it.

And this group behaved very carefully, and this could mean that they did not want to be discovered and most likely knew that the "Black Star" had positioned its forces in this place and was preparing to capture it, for this reason they quietly "eliminated" Macmillan and were going to do the same with Shafiqi, but the appearance of such a terrible house elf quickly forced them to change their plans and therefore, as soon as the unrest died down a little, at night, the group quickly attacked his house, having previously studied his dossier more carefully again.

And if Amon appeared, then Adam had to detain him and, if possible, capture him alive, and the main target was Snape, because it was much easier to get everything out of the "boy" than the elderly wizard.

But everything went wrong, the wolves became a real surprise for them and even after killing about twenty, they were still arriving non-stop, so the Necromancer ordered them to cover him until he raised the dead animals.

But when he fully concentrated on the spell, the man lost his head, as did his protector, who erected a barrier around them, but the claws of the Dark Hound were too sharp, and the wizard, who almost reached the middle rank of "Master", lost his life. 

Regarding the second one, with whom Severus finished in ten minutes and without any excesses, as he expected, he also had everything erased, but he was still able to complete the "picture".

This concerned the spies who told about the strange artefact and sent one copy to the headquarters. 

The Prince was able to find out: the place where they were hiding, their appearance and call signs. 

The wizard was going to visit them, but not now, but in a couple of days, when he recovers. 

After all, he couldn't use magic at full power and didn't want to strain the core too much until it was fully restored after the forced strengthening.

And there was no hurry anyway from Adam's memory, he learned that they didn't doubt the seals that were installed in his head at all, therefore, the members of the "Queen" organisation were unlikely to flee the country so quickly and most likely, judging by Amelia's cautious nature, they would hide and wait until everything settled down and most likely try to get him again, because failure in a mission was severely punished. 

But he wasn't going to just stand there and wait, he already had his own plans for them... 

Having finished with all the business in the basement, and ordering the house elf to deal with the former members of the "Black Star", he returned to the living room and, taking Nagini with him, they left Gloucestershire.

***

A young man, looking very tired and exhausted, sat on a bench near a small, lonely Victorian mansion surrounded by a forest and tenderly stroked the head of a girl of about thirteen with platinum hair and a white dress, who was quietly snoring on his lap. 

During this time, too much had fallen on the shoulders of the younger Macmillan, who had just recently graduated from school.

In addition to his father, who had lost his mind and fallen into a coma, he had to take the place of the head of the family, and with this came all the affairs associated with this. 

This is the second day and he had not even taken a nap for one second in this period, having completely immersed in work and even with for own sister he did not have time to talk normally and only now the aristocrat was able to free up two hours, which she was very happy about, from which his feeling of guilt only intensified, but he simply could not do anything.

The reason and whose fault it was that all this happened, there was no need to even guess. But he would be a hypocrite if he said that he didn't blame Snape for this and if the wizard had appeared in front of him that very day, the aristocrat would most likely have attacked him without thinking to take out all his grief and rage, but now that he had cooled down a bit and thought it over, the young man realised that not only he was a victim, but the Prince himself one. 

And if anyone was to blame, then those who did this to his father.

And while John continued to think about all this, the next moment he shuddered, seeing that someone appeared in front of his house and almost instantly, a wand appeared in his hand, which Macmillan had already pointed at the person, but after a few seconds, with a crooked, unnatural smile, he slowly lowered it, seeing the guest, who turned out to be "Severus" and the fact that he did not look as cheerful and relaxed as usual, but gloomy and rather weak, at least a little, but this weakened the negative feelings that suddenly flared up inside him. 

"S …" he wanted to call him by name, but the young man shook his head softly and put his finger to his lips, and then, right through the air, with fire wrote

"Sorry, will you allow me to visit him? Perhaps I can help."

Such words, coupled with the confidence written on Snape's face, caused him surprise, followed by a slowly rising irritation, because the best healers who visited his house during these one and a half days said that it was impossible to help, and the "boy" with such seriousness "says" such things, as if mocking their grief. "You …"

"I do not have enough skills to save him, but my teacher may be able to do it, I want to examine your father and send him the result ," Severus added, writing in the air again, noticing that John began to get angry and of course, Severus understood the aristocrat and knew that, deep down John blames him, although he tried not to show it on the outside. 

Seeing the next inscription, John froze, and then nodded slightly, because his father had told him many times that someone very powerful was standing behind the Prince, because the "boy" could not achieve this only on his own, and "Severus" himself said that he had a teacher who was currently in Brazil and looking for some ingredient. 

And remembering this, in the depths of John's soul, hope began to arise again that he would be able to save his father. 

Severus entered the house and headed towards the stairs leading to the second floor, not paying much attention to the surprised maid who passed by him. 

'And why did all this happen, at the very moment when I decided to work on my core, as if someone had decided to mock me like that on purpose... it's been a long time since I felt guilty towards others…' for a moment, an image of a smiling young man appeared in his head and a moment later, he was replaced by another... the same man, with the same expression on his face and a sword sticking out of his chest, who looked straight into his eyes, which made the wizard's entire body tremble, "I'm already in a bad mood, and now I remembered this..."

"Sev... I'm with you and no matter what happens, I will always support you…" Nagini's warm voice sounded, sticking out from under the dark robe and pressing against his cheek, who found it hard to see Severus like this, who usually, no matter what situation they got into, always smiled at her.

"Thank you," he answered, smiling softly, stroking her on the top of her head and entering the room, where Macmillan Sr. lay on a large bed with a green canopy with a serene expression on his face, as if he was simply sleeping. 

Approaching him, Severus did not hesitate to place his palm on the man's forehead and closed his eyes, immersing himself in the mind of the wizard, but not a minute had passed before he opened them, and a heavy sigh escaped from his lips.

"What is it?"

"It's... impossible…" the Prince answered gloomily, what lay in front of them on the bed was just an empty shell, and the personality and all memories were destroyed without a trace, in this situation, even the Great Archmage would have been powerless, not to mention a simple Master at the peak like him, perhaps, if he had been at home that day, he could still restore his mind, but now, it was already impossible, from which the previously extinguished rage flared up with renewed vigour, "Why can't you bitches sit still, do you think that if I don't bother you and don't get into meaningless conflicts, then you can wipe your feet on me?! Do you want to play?! I'll play with you! But I swear, you won't like this game at all!"

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