Draco's sentence seemed a never-ending drag of groundhog days and melancholy. Ten years of isolation as a means of punishment hadn't sounded nearly as bad as the threat of Azkaban, but he hadn't considered just what that entailed.
Phone call after phone call invariably ended with a sigh and an extended series of beeps. Until one call, one unexpected call, hauled Draco from his monotony and back to life for the first time in years.