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[indecent_butterfly]

[After spending a good deal of the previous day and night heavily drinking, waking up to the sound of someone screaming was not what ne had expected so early in the morning.

Coming face to face with an animal instead of the suspected human should have been a sign ne'd had more to drink than ne thought in the first place. And wait...wasn't someone missing? Oh well.

That the animal spoke? Yeah, never mind this was just getting to be typical wasn't it? ]

[Hatter turns on the device so the City is offered a shot of the annoying thing.]

It's about time you woke up. You truly are worthless. There are better things to do than lay around all day unless you wish to take the Lord and Lady's place instead?

[Instead of responding to the bird, ne looks to the device.]

Still? Should One be happy it's only this day instead of both?

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[indecent_butterfly]

[That gets a laugh.]

Then they aren't very creative, the tour should start there and include all the rooms.

[dignity_misery]

[Hatter you know just what to say to a girl.]

Then I'll be there.

[indecent_butterfly]

[But of course.]

The door will be open.

[dignity_misery]

[She'll make her way down then. Maybe a visit with the Hatter isn't a bad idea anyway, considering what Karl's been up to this weekend...]

[indecent_butterfly]

[Other than being bored and trying to get himself blown sky high? Oh and then lots of drinking and other things.

Like ne'd said, the front door is unlocked and ne's currently lounging on a couch in the front room ignoring the bird that keeps trying to talk to her.]

[dignity_misery]

[Yes, those things. Carla worries. Although she would rather not say that so openly.

She comes in to find the Hatter, knows from first hand experience better than to try to touch that bird and just sits down on the couch alongside her hip.]

Down?

[Hatter had asked her first, she can turn the question around.]

[indecent_butterfly]

[Luckily nir feathers weren't as powerful as they are back home. He'd have been nothing but a scorch mark left on the ground...until he was reanimated or whatever happens to the City dead.

Ne shifts enough to make room for Carla on the couch, ne and Karl had fit quite well the night before.]

A small set back in One's plans at home. It will surely be the beginning of something better.

[Reaching over to the table, ne picks up a box of chocolates knocking the lid off before holding it out to Carla.]

[dignity_misery]

Surely?

[Carla isn't certain that's how things work, she just takes her piece of chocolate and puts it in her mouth.]

[indecent_butterfly]

One can hope.

[Ne knows it can't be the end of everything since ne's been told things without being told them. Still a bit depressing to find out the 998 weddings were for nothing.]

[dignity_misery]

[Hope. Hope is... not something Carla really does. Someone did a good job of draining all of it from her.]

I see you got Karl off your back.

[indecent_butterfly]

[Ne's been holding on to it for...well a long, long time.]

Blew him up. Or tried to and failed.

[dignity_misery]

[Ahaha... sigh. Carla knows he was asking for it, she's not here to complain about it.]

I'm sure he was disappointed.

[indecent_butterfly]

Not really. He laughed over it and then we celebrated.

[Just going to reach into the box and pull out a piece for nemself before offering up to Carla again.]

And your day?

[dignity_misery]

[Carla never refuses chocolate.]

Nothing to complaint about. I just had to go home and stop my roomate's--

[She motions at the peacock. A daemon.]

From eating my dog.

[indecent_butterfly]

Big enough or ferocious enough to eat a dog? Interesting.


And what was your present from the deities this weekend?

[dignity_misery]

Rex can't defend himself. [She almost rolls her eyes.] Blonde spoiled him too much.

[But Tasmanian Devils are nothing to sneer at.]

Nothing, just a few pictures they saw fit to share.

[indecent_butterfly]

You don't sound too happy about that.

[Not that ne really wants to talk about if that means ne has to then talk about what's bothering nem in detail as well.

Another piece of chocolate would be the answer to any problem. Or two.]

[dignity_misery]

I hadn't looked at them in a while.

[Shrug. Carla is unwilling to divulge more, and unwilling to pry about the woes of others either. Her general lack of ability to sympathize made such exercises more tedious than rewarding.]

[indecent_butterfly]

[Good, that works for nem as well.]

One did promise a tour since you didn't get to come before...pick a floor, or the basement, or if you wish the gardens or maze.

[dignity_misery]

A maze too?

[indecent_butterfly]

A hedge maze. It's quite large.

[And quite good for chasing people in. Or other things.]

[dignity_misery]

[She smiles faintly.]

Let's go see.

[indecent_butterfly]

Come on.

[Ne gets up and leads Carla out the back toward the maze. The hedge high enough to hide anything that goes on inside from others.]

Haven't been to the center yet, keep getting distracted on the way.

[dignity_misery]

[Ahahah.]

Is there anything there worth seeing?

[indecent_butterfly]

[Well Karl used it during nir party for snacks...and attacking Setsuna.]

Lots of...green. The distraction usually comes from One's company.