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stressingwitchface

"Ugh. People"

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From:

abrightboy

…They’re not going to fight, are they?

From:

stressingwitchface

I don't know! Titan, Bright, you're so....nng! Keep Scalpel away from her. Princess, come.

[Princess snorts at Malcolm but retreats, coming to sit at Kiki's side]

From:

abrightboy

[Malcolm steps inside, glancing around from under his brow. He sees the door, but he keeps his attention on Scalpel.]

So. Anything out of place? Orrrr... different from how you left it?

From:

stressingwitchface

[Kikimora hiccups, having caught sight of the door at last. She takes a hesitant breath and resolves to not cry!!]

Nothing is changed.

From:

abrightboy

[He manages to let just the corners of his lips tick up a tiny bit.]

No? Did you check in there? [He points to the door.] Nothing is missing from that… closet?

From:

stressingwitchface

Obviously I know what my own room looks like, Warden Bright!

[Her voice cracks a little. Scalpel makes a rawwwr?? noise of concern in Malcolm's hands, nibbling one of his fingers]

From:

abrightboy

Obviously. You did it, Kikimora. Didn’t I say you would? Do I get a hug or what?

From:

stressingwitchface

But I don't FEEL any different!

[she turns to stare, teary-eyed, up at Malcolm]

From:

abrightboy

What did you think it would feel like?

From:

stressingwitchface

I don't know! That I'd somehow feel less...me!

From:

abrightboy

Oh. Well. That's never what I wanted to happen. I was hoping when you got there, you'd feel like it was okay to be a little... more you. You know. Ready to peek around the walls you've spent your life building.

From:

stressingwitchface

Ugh. You KNEW about this!

[she turns to start hitting his thigh with her fist. Princess puts Kiki's arm in her mouth and gently leads her back to the bed to sit down]

You....What am I supposed to do now? I don't have a PLAN.

From:

abrightboy

I didn't know until I looked to see where you were, to come see Scalpel, and you weren't on my device anymore. Then I suspected. What do you mean by a plan? A plan of what to do now? A plan of what to use your Deal for?

From:

stressingwitchface

[At the sound of her name, Scalpel yells out a softer, high-pitched version of an alligator bellow. Kikimora snorts]

I KNOW what I'm going to use my deal for. I told Hunter weeks ago.

I don't know where to go!

From:

abrightboy

So stay here for a bit until you figure it out. Nobody is kicking you off the boat. You're a Warden now. Read the ledger. Go into the Enclosure without permission. Take advantage of the Warden Only Swedish Spa. [Okay, the last one is just teasing.] And let me know what your deal is when you want me to request it from the Admiral.

From:

stressingwitchface

You have a spa?

[Rude! Kiki huffs and hugs Princess to her]

I told Hunter I wanted to replant the great Palistrom forests. Palismen are rare in our world because Belos killed any he could find. It normally takes hundreds of years to mature a forest and I wouldn't even know where to begin.

From:

abrightboy

There's no spa! [Laughing.] But you could do the other stuff! And I think that's a great deal. Maybe you could go there and be its guardian. The Guardian of the Forest. You can live in a cottage and watch over it.

From:

stressingwitchface

What about me screams woodswitch, Malcolm? I've always been partial to larger populations of people!

From:

abrightboy

How far is town from this forest?

From:

stressingwitchface

There wasn't just one. They used to be all over.

From:

abrightboy

You're restoring them all over? That's wonderful! I'm just saying, you can do that with a bonus. Do you want nobody to remember that you worked for Belos, only that you're the witch that saved the forest?

From:

stressingwitchface

It would seem counterintuitive to do this as recompense for Belos while simultaneously making everyone magically forget.

From:

abrightboy

If you don't want that, I'm proud of you for owning what you did. I just don't want to leave you there in danger. Apparently people there kick you because you're small? I'm just saying your tales of your life there don't fill me with confidence and I'm not opposed to giving you some kind of advantage.