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[dignity_misery]

[Hello, City, hello. Miss Carla is sitting inside a little cafe today, with a plate of cupcakes that look like this in front of her. One is peeled open and half-eaten. The rest of her little table is occupied by a sketch pad where something to this effect is slowly taking shape. If you're looking, you might notice this tattooed on the hand she's drawing with.]

How did you enjoy winding yourselves up yesterday?

[There's something a little wry to her voice in asking. She always feels like she has to wind herself up in the mornings, it was almost too funny seeing it acted out in reality.]

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[worldofourown]

Out and about, I see.

[ He's glad. ]

[dignity_misery]

There was cake.

[Like that answers eeeverything.]

[worldofourown]

We all have our priorities.

[ Her appetite's intact. Marvelous. ]

[dignity_misery]

Did you manage to skip the clockwork curse, Karl?

[worldofourown]

Thankfully.

I've had about all the screwing and unscrewing I can stand.

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[trenchknives]

I was lucky enough to avoid it.

Video

[dignity_misery]

Then you don't have anything useful to contribute to my question, do you.

[There's something light and teasing in her expression, eyebrows up as she carries on sketching.]

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[trenchknives]

Guess not, but how could I resist talkin' to you?

Re: Video

[dignity_misery]

You have a difficult time controlling your impulses?

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[trenchknives]

You should already know that.

[skintoskin]

I didn't get wound up at all, so I'm fine, thanks. You?

[He leans closer to the screen, as if he'd be able to see much better.]

I'm not sure which is more disturbing: the cupcake or the drawing...

[dignity_misery]

No, I was fine. It was nice.

[Watching other people suffer, yep.]

You have a low tolerance for being disturbed.

[skintoskin]

Of course it was - for you.

[He has some awareness of her interests by now.]

Look, you've got a bleeding cupcake with a knife in it and a woman with no pupils who looks like she wants to bite someone. Neither of those is even remotely disturbing to... to people who aren't you?

[dignity_misery]

It's a cupcake, and a drawing.

[skintoskin]

And they are both a little creepy, Carla.

[video]

[keepinitsaucy]

[Have Andy's happy, smiling face peering at you from the video feed, Carla.]

Oh, man... I missed a curse, didn't I? Shame!

[video]

[dignity_misery]

[Sigh. Hello Andy. Carla gives him an exasperated look.]

Don't pretend like you enjoy them.

[video]

[keepinitsaucy]

Oh, no... I was trying out sarcasm.

[He is too much of a sweetheart to use it properly, but he is still smiling away. It is a little tighter, though, because he remembers where she was last.]

How are you doing?

[video]

[dignity_misery]

[Definitely too earnest for sarcasm.]

I'm doing alright.

[Cue cupcakes to lips. What could be bad about cupcakes?]

Apparently I'm studying Russian now.

[If that makes you feel important. Not that she cares if he feels important.]

[video]

[keepinitsaucy]

[It makes him feel important.

It's the little things.]

Nice cupca -- did you get a tattoo?

[intheblanks]

[He'll gloss over the tattoos for now.]

Wall chart for a dentist?

[dignity_misery]

That depends on the dentist.

[intheblanks]

They're all sadists.

[dignity_misery]

But how many of them are willing to risk being eaten?

[No, she is not denying that she's drawing zombies. Nothing nice happens in her sketchbooks besides the fact that she's sketching.]

[intheblanks]

Your sketches eat people? That's a talent.