Day 16- reindeer
“Can I have a pet reindeer?” Luna asks as she colours a Christmas book, her tongue poking out in concentration when she isn’t talking.
“Why?” Pandora looks up from her spot in the kitchen where she’s pouring plastic cups of lemonade for the three of them, she looks genuinely confused and it makes Regulus feel rather smug, he knows more about muggle holidays and understands what Luna’s learnt from her classmates more than Pandora does.
“They can fly,” Luna says this like it’s obvious, in a tone so clearly picked up from her Aunt Dorcas that Pandora’s mouth drops open in shock a bit and Regulus has to stifle a laugh.
“Yeah Panda, did you not know that?” Luna looks up as Regulus sides with her, holding up a hand for a high-five. Regulus obliges and she smiles, looking the spitting image of her mother.
“Are you sure they can fly?” Pandora asks carefully, carrying over the cups and placing them on the short table, pressing a kiss to her daughter's head and running a hand over her hair before sitting down.
“Yes, we saw it in the films,” Luna shrugs, and Regulus copies when Pandora shoots him an incredulous look.
“Okay,” Pandora draws out the word, “And where would we keep it?”
Luna hums thoughtfully, taking a few moments to finish her colouring and look up at the conversation, “It can stay with me in my room, ooh can I get bunk beds!” She squeals excitedly and Regulus sees Pandora actually bite her tongue to stop herself agreeing.
“You’d have to take the top bunk, the reindeer can’t climb the ladder,” Regulus chimes in helpfully and Pandora kicks him under the table.
“Fine, okay now that that’s sorted, what would you feed them?” Luna sighs, tutting discontentedly in the manner of a middle-aged teacher fed up with explaining the same concept.
“Reggie you have to help me, she knows nothing,” Regulus laughs as Pandora puts on a show of being offended and picks Luna up to sit in his lap while they talk, hugging her back to her chest and hooking his head over her shoulder.
“Mum, we have to feed them candy canes, everyone knows that!”
“They eat carrots too, so you don’t have to question about their health,” Regulus continues to support Luna’s points, interested to see how Pandora will wriggle her way out of this, or if she’ll end up with a reindeer in her garden by the end of the week.
“They get lonely on their own, so I don’t think we’ll be able to, sorry my love.” Luna slumps in his arms, not saying anything else but clearly upset she hasn’t gotten her own way. With the way her family would do anything for her, it’s only a matter of time before Luna owns an entire herd of reindeer.