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[ She looks different. All the basic features are the same--bone structure and eye color--but the weight behind them is gone. Like an illustration with all its dramatic shading removed. She's still a bit too pretty, the fairy kiss lingers, but she looks much more like any human woman now. The dark and the menace is gone. She is pale. And tired.

She licks her lips and contemplates saying something before determining not to. ]

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this starbreak is celestial air just
silver; earthlight, dying amber.
underneath an arch of pallor
summer keeps his brightened chamber.

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Signs of life and all that. Wresting me free of the unspeakable depths did not kill me. Probably.

Do you think my mother is proud of me?

Nevermind. Tell me the robot does a worse job of manning the dining hall. Or you'll hurt my feelings.

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[ 🌼 Not feeling very verbal at this juncture. Probably texting even in person.

🍄 She finds the lack of the outdoors on the Barge more intolerable than usual. So she stands by the door and waits for a warden to open the Enclosure. This time she chooses the seaside. The sky is grey over the resort town of Land's End and the waves are frothy white.

🍄 She does go back to her work in the dining hall but looks frazzled with all the noise once everyone's come in for lunch. She dips out to go smoke a cigarette on the deck instead of socializing and people watching.

🍄 Restless, she wants something to do with her hands and ends up in the art gazebo. She's taking her time with some small and intricate origami. ]

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[ he doesn't know Qetzi. He doesn't know what prompted this post. But Dr. Darling can easily reply, ]

You do a very good job in the dining hall and are much better than the stupid robot.

:)

[ Maybe that helps? ]

Perfect. Although I guess it was good the robot was there while I was

busy

It could never match up to you, though!

Are we just very enthusiastic about lunch today?

I'm trying to be reassuring. Is it too much?

Well, I don't think we've been introduced. Maybe you're always like this.

I’ve been called ‘obnoxiously chipper’ before. I probably am always like this.

And this is me, introducing myself! I’m Dr. Casper Darling. I’m an inmate!

That explains everything.

What kind of evil doctor are you, exactly?

I'm not an evil doctor, I'm a physicist. What sort of evil can a physicist do?

You tell me. What've you done, Darling?

ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

I'm absolutely convinced. You're surely the only inmate to ever be here for no reason at all.

Let me rephrase that: absolutely nothing that I'll tell to a stranger. Get to know me better first!

[Go figure, Donut is the warden most likely to open the Enclosure. She bounds in, making a noise of dismay at all the water, but calms when she sees..]

That is the biggest litter box I've ever seen.

[ She makes an amused noise that is followed up with a big sigh as she stretches her arms above her head and breathes in the sea air.

Party chat displays: ]

This is my father's hometown and where he met my mother and Othniel.

[ She walks towards the water, leaving her shoes behind as she goes. ]

[Donut responds in party chat as well. Per Donut, it's in all caps]

IT"S BEAUTIFUL. EXCEPT FOR THE WATER.

This was the end of the world. If we tried to go out into the ocean the hill would pull back.

We tried it a few times as children anyway. Candy's eyes and nose started bleeding.

[ She sits down in the wet sand and lets the surf wash over her legs. ]

JUST GOES TO SHOW. ALL WATER IS TERRIBLE. CATS KNOW THIS INTRINSICALLY BUT I THINK HUMANS FORGET SOMETIMES.

[ Her laughter is low, lazy. ]

My father runs a seafood restaurant. It's over there.

[ She points much further down the beach. It looks small at this distance. A wooden deck winds around the outside with a ramp on one side. But the big LAND'S END sign is certainly visible from here. ]

And I'm certain that you like salmon.

[Donut lets out a light gasp of joy, bounding up]

Oh! I do love salmon, yes! We should eat some after this.

[ She extends her hand to stroke Donut's ear. ]

Maybe I can volunteer in the kitchen now.

[ Now that she is less likely to cook another denizen. ]

[She purrs, happily, leaning in.]

That would be nice. I adore Carl but he is a terrible cook. There was this awful pancake incident, I will not dare to repeat but it was just awful.

But why was Carl feeding you pancakes in the first place?

Haven't cooked for anyone since I was poisoning Haran's brides.

[ She makes an expression of mild distaste. Her absolute rage at her cousin's attempts to start a family feels different than the last time she melted down about it. She waits for the emotions to explode and nothing happens. ]

I'm a good cook.

He wasn't feeding me pancakes, goodness. He was trying to make pancakes for himself and Miss Beatrice and I got my tail caught on fire because he was so bad at it.

Are you? I don't like to eat poison.

You're also not a collection of corpse parts in a doll body that I wanted to burn from the inside out.

I'm a good cook.

Have you ever made sushi before? I love it.

I could cobble some together but getting good at sushi is a very long apprenticeship.

I suppose the kitchen demon could train me. No one else is qualified.

Sebastian? Great idea. He's the greatest about taking care of cats.

I didn't want to be around the demons before. You're all very lucky I didn't go throw a fit in the kitchens long before now.

Yes, we are. I don't want to have you and Sebastian fight, he's great. And you're great. And being mean about demons is speciest.

We kept them as pets in our basement because they're lesser beings which I think is the very definition of speciesism. Haran's father is probably down there to this day.

[ She gestures again at her father's restaurant. ]

The restaurant is also a front for daddy trading all kinds of creatures and artifacts for us. It's nice to have your own little dock where you claim all the seafood is coming in.

You sound like Miss Beatrice's mom when you talk about demons. All her cats at the Queen Anne Cattery were sad-looking.

OMG. Daddy trading? We can get new daddies?

They're not my demons. I only ever kept a single faerie myself. Haran's idiot warlock brought it to me as a gift. I let Kae go eventually.

[ She stifles a laugh, bundling Donut in her arms to bury her face against. ]

Daddy *is* a trader. He'd go overseas for things that we couldn't reach. We used to have to go through people outside the family. That's why Adina was decent with my father: he contributed.

[She purrs, snuggling! Donut is a champion snuggler]

Well, that sounds less fun, but I see.

The poetry is very nice. Thank you.

Everything is very bright.

You've been stuck in the dark for a long time! Everything else is gonna be bright in comparison without it.

Have this faerie spark that was there fighting with the dark. Now it's got no competition.

It's going to take some time, for it to get used to not having to fight so hard and push so far anymore. But you're doing good already.

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