Chapter 29
Chapter 29
The journey to Lys was a nightmare.
It wasn’t even made bearable by the fact that Draco was one of the very few passengers that didn’t get sea-sick. But then again, none of these poor sods actually had his experience on the Durmstrang fleet.
And that?
That was a nightmare and a half.
While all of those their gullible Hogwarts and Beauxbatons peers couldn’t tear their eyes away from the well-built Durmstrang Champion and his compatriots, those unlucky enough to get on Karkaroff’s bad side or the social outcasts that drew the short straw for bunking arrangements, were confined aboard as to not embarrass the ‘proper’ students by their greenish pallor.
So yes, Draco didn’t get sea-sick. Or more like it, he couldn’t get sea-sick.
And if all those jealous merchants that enviously glared at him in between puking their guts out overboard knew why exactly Draco wasn’t there with the rest of them, they wouldn’t secretly wish to be in his shoes any longer. Because Draco? Draco would have loved to swap with anyone, anyone at all back in the day. What kind of sadist even makes sailing those wooden death-traps compulsory for all the male students anyway? Draco would take the female-compulsory knitting classes over that any day if anyone had bothered to ask his honest opinion (which they didn’t).
At least they were lucky enough not to encounter pirates.
That was something he could live without thank you very much…
And while most of them just ‘confiscate’ all valuables and cargo, releasing the crews and passengers alive (as mindless slaughter either provoked eventual retaliation or the lack of marine travelers to further exploit), getting sold into slavery was a very real possibility. And although he did shift his features into something unrecognizable and in his honest opinion, ugly, his perception of beauty seemed to be rather skewed. But then again, growing up around the exquisite Lucius Malfoy whose subtle Veela allure played a very minor part in the final impression he made on others, would do that to anyone.
So now Draco Malfoy who would hopefully never have to use the tasteless name ‘Jon Snow’ or the unoriginal and even vulgar (considering his deceased elder half-brother’s name) Aegon Targaryen, disguised as a ‘plain and ugly’ muggle (but only according to his opinion) was drawing much more attention than he would have liked. Oh well, he just has to bear with it. Once he arrives in Lys, he could hopefully forego his disguise. Because in one of the ‘Three Sisters’ densely populated by descendants of Valyrian, renowned for their beauty, surely he will not stand out…
Oh, how wrong he was…