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Since Lucius Malfoy had come back from Azkaban he had had difficulty in finding words of his own, and often spoke in the language of poets or of princes. Snape had found he tell the state of Lucius' temper by the work he chose. Now, as they lay on the twisted, crumpled sheets, Lucius' fingers traced absent letters down Snape's spine in a cadence Snape almost recognized. Lucius' grandfather had kept a dozen Muggle philosophers and playwrights as pets, and Lucius had learned all of Hamlet's lines by heart before he spoke his first Unforgivable curse. But having all the words in the world did not make it easier to say things no one wanted to hear.