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    [Tower near Edelina's Farm]

    Edelina has grown weary of the old man illusion's explanation about the tower, the hidden library etc - the explanation does not quite seem to explain enough. Like, how the old man died, exactly.

    She heads upstairs quietly, to just have a look around. Edelina decided she cannot bear to wait, she must see Matilda immediately. They have waited enough! Edelina is angry that Matilda must surely be unaware of the danger she has put herself in. That Matilda has been led into trouble by the gargoyle.

    Edelina is caught up in her thoughts at this moment, full of worry for her sister. She will press ahead up the stairs unless she is stopped.

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    A Different Sort of Party

    Electra nods. She's met a few clients just drinking at Trog's or the Den after all, so it's definitely not outside the realm of possibility.

    "I see. Well, I think that about covers it," she says, looking to Fayyaad. "Do you want to come with, Fayyaad? Or should I have Ray take you home?"
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    Later, as the curtain has long passed, Ambrosia slowly starts to untangle her own massive body from Lydia's. "I think we might have made a mess." The scholar remarks with a deep chuckle. Pausing for a moment to look out over the landscape that had to suffer the consequenses of their lovemaking.
    Trees turned over, fields of grass turned into mud and a small creater created around them.
    "I don't usually go all the way up to your size for this reason, but how could I resist after seeing you, hm?" She says as she turns to look into her lovers eyes, the purple dragon now oozing this sublime feeling of tranquility that feels quite different from the burning passion she seemed to be consumed by before.
    Lydia can no longer feel the other dragons feelings directly however, their bond broken some time after their amorous encounter.

    Ambrosia straigthen herself out and shakes her long body in the same manner a wet dog would. The mud, dirt and traces of vegetation that sticks to her scales suddenly falling off like water. "I do hope we can do this again some time. It was far too long since I could share something like this with another dragon, and I suspect the same goes for you based on what you told me."
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    Lydia takes a few moments to stretch herself out fully, looking far more relaxed with a literal afterglow from the experience. A hard quick shake of her own cleans the debris from her body, but she can't help leaning her head over to rub her jaw against Ambrosia's neck. "Any time you wish." She says, sounding drunk from the experience. "I haven't felt like a young wyrmling like this for centuries. I admit I'm practically giddy." As she speaks, she shifts herself back to her human disguise before leaning her body against Ambrosia's larger form. "I'd rather not crush my club by stumbling about like that. Come back any time, truly. Even if it's just for a drink or to hide out. I'll make it known that you're to be given every hospitality if I'm not here.

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    [A Different Sort of Party]

    "I think I better head on home," Fayyaad says. "You don't really need me to have Cantata signed up. We can catch each other later."

    [Tower near Edelina's Farm]

    "I see." Dipsnig looks unconvinced and unimpressed. He's just supposed to ignore a treasure trove of rare magic under his nose? Not that he can use it, having as much magic talent as your average molerat, but it's still valuable. "Seems Edelina is going after her sister. We need to watch her back just in case. I don't trust this place."
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    The wasp is also still asleep, but stirs a little. She might wake up soon, especially if something touches her.
    Once he's free, Benedict's going to grab his pistol and one of the wasp's bone swords and start to leave. Once he's outside the cloud of purple spores, he draws another green symbol and walks off, this time protected by a ward that should prevent him from being tracked by scent or magic, though like all Occultist effects, it's hampered by the fact it's powered by Benedict's rather small internal well of power. A crystal ball or a specialist in divination magic would be able to penetrate his defences quite easily.
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    When Benedict is long gone, Moschu finally stirs.
    Time is stable again.
    Everyone is gone. Wait, no, there's a wasp. Couple of wasps, right, right, one was just paralyzed.

    She gives the place one more look around and then heads for the door, meaning to saunter out of the research facility and find a secluded part of the Old Wood from which to make a proper exit.
    But the wasps could interrupt her, if they woke in time.
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    The terminal doesn't have enough intelligence to react properly to Tauron's virus, but it still has more than the intended effect. She will be granted permission to enter with whatever name she wants. The central computer will be told that she's a legitimate visitor and guide Ilpholin to her desired destination.
    Fortunately, that destination is not in the high-security wing of the hospital which would have things a lot more complicated. Therefore, she should have no problem going there without running into additional security checks.

    If she simply goes into the elevator the central computer will take her to the intended floor. Then she can use the map there to go to room (13)719656980. Apparently, besides the first two (secret) numbers, the rooms change codes every day.
    [New Inside - Castilla]

    Some day, Ilpholin will meet a real data based intelligence that can satisfy her.

    Still, she thanks her phone, hangs up, pretends to tap on the computer, who she was really thanking. Ilpholin then heads on into the elevator, nodding at the nurse as she goes by and taking in the advanced nature of the elevator. Maybe she should get something like this installed back home. Still, the further she goes into this 'hospital', the more it feels like an advanced prison camp than a medical facility. She's just glad she's not here for an ultrasound.

    There's the map. She looks it over and heads to room (13)719656980.
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    [Camping Trip]

    Wenomir shakes his heads and shrugs. He really didn't expect to be explaining the Riddle to a... dinosaur-dragon-monster on this trip. But hey, people legitimately interested in it are pretty thin on the ground, so he won't complain.

    "I can only tell you how I became more than I had been. I refused to take the easier paths that were offered to me and I held on to what felt true to myself. I accepted the hardships that came with it and bettered myself by them. They tempered me rather than break or change me."
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    Old Wood

    The wasp awakens much sooner, on the order of a few minutes after Benedict is gone. She doesn't leave, but rather sets about repairing the damage dealt to the habitat, resealing the entrance and cleaning up the mess the fight left before retreating to the back room and waiting, keeping an eye on the giant ants in their pen, especially the injured one.
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    Well, when Moschu awakes and finds the entrance repaired, she can't just stroll out of here anymore, can she?
    She wanders around until she comes across the wasp in the back room, whereupon she points a leg at the wasp, and then points back towards the exit.
    What are you doing in here, wasp?
    That ant is clearly done for.
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    Old Wood

    The wasp holds up a hand warding Moschu off, for a moment. She walks over to the injured ant and presses her antennae against it as if listening to something. Once she's confirmed that whatever she's hearing is all right, she allows Moschu to lead her back to the entrance.
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    Gosh antennae are weird.
    Moschu waits for her to check on the ant, and then heads back to the entrance and, with some more gesturing and pointing, hopefully makes it outside.
    Has the purple powder cleared up any while they were in there?
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    Old Wood

    The wasp understands and brushes her hand gently against the edge of the membrane. It comes unstuck from the wall and hangs open for Moschu to leave. In the intervening time, much of the purple dust has settled to the ground. It won't be nearly as concentrated as before.
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    Moschu bobs happily and clambers outside, taking care not to disturb too much dust on the way out of the forest.

    That turned out great! She got a bunch of knick-kancks and a wasp to investigate later (it's very simple in principle. Split the universe into 2 parts. In one, remove the wasp from stasis and perform experiments, in the other, leave it alone to study later. Then pick the thread where you left it alone, but remember the experiments and write them down in main-time. Repeat).
    But not now. There was another, bigger disturbance just before the last fight broke out. She'd better hurry.
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    "And I pledge to give you a weapon of the Faerie in exchange for your service, while giving you the measure of freedom I agreed on," the King says. Every word he speaks seems heavy; fair heavier than simple sound. Something indeed hears and remembers every word of it. "It is done. Retrieving one of the weapons that my hunters and generals used to wield will take some time. But you will have one."

    "Though it'd help to know what kind of weapon you're after," Amalungak adds, speaking for the first time in a while.
    Dismal Swamp

    Stroking his jawbone, Thryscir says, "I'm trained in all but the most exotic and unknown weapons, though I don't do great with hammers. They tend to be easy for enemies to turn back on me, and I'm especially vulnerable to blunt force." He yawns, though it seems to be more out of tiredness than boredom. "If I had to choose a specific type of weapon, I'd probably choose either a bow or a sword. I'm pretty versatile with those two."
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    [The Joining House]

    "There is nothing wrong in your hospitality, Votsona. You've done plenty. It's just..." she pauses to gather the right words. "Well, uh, for some of us, the stories behind our scars still ache, even if the wound has long since faded. And from my experience... well, the worse it looks, the greater it tends to aches, y'know?"

    Blanche's ears flicker before she continues any further, sensing the approaching stranger. She turns to scrutinize them... only to get an unintended eyeful of a very generous bust. It takes her a beat to realize what she's staring at and hastily raise her gaze. "I'm not afraid of a few foolish revelers," the catgirl responds as she reaches for the flagon. But as brave as her words are, she doesn't seem entirely confident in them.
    "Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not, we never are. But that's not the right question. The question is: are we living a life that is worth the harm?"
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    [Tower Near Edelina’s Farm]

    Kray nods.
    ”We shouldn’t separate. I’ll take the rear.” she says, and presumably follows Dispnig up the stairs.
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    [Dismal Swamp]

    "My followers never were the type to use swords, but a bow is well within my reach," the King in Rags says. "It will take me some time to acquire such a weapon. I will send word if I do. For now..." One of the hounds Thryscir has seen before emerges from the swamp. "I believe you were meant to leave here with one of these. It is yours to do with as you see fit, as your faithful companion."
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    Tower Near Edelina's Farm

    Upstairs they go! This is the penultimate floor (unless I've misremembered or miscounted) and the staircase goes up again. Anyway, this room appears to be a study, lined with more bookshelves and a desk up against one of the arrow-slits. Despite the presence of shelves, the bookcases here are emptier than those below, with more trinkets and unusual items mixed amongst the magical tomes. There's also a comfortable looking sofa, with a child sleeping on it, curled halfway into a ball. She's about ten years old, with brown hair tied into braids that have gotten into a bit of a tangle, since she's not really been caring for them. She's wearing a too-large black t-shirt, serving as a short dress. It's belted at the waist with a belt covered in shiny fish scales, with a buckle carved from a large clam shell into the shape of a fish. She's barefoot, with grubby feet. Edelina should recognise her sister, though the clothing is new. Resting near one hand is a thick book bound with wooden plates, open to a page on internal illusory effects, such as manipulating emotions and wakefulness. Several cloth bookmarks hang out from other pages, both earlier and later in the book. Near her other hand is a crude wooden sword; Matilda's favourite of several such items.

    On the desk are several more books, a large faceted crystal, several ornate telescopes and, slumped over the desk and sat in an antique wooden office chair, is an old corpse. The dead man has desiccated, so he doesn't smell. He has dark skin and white hair, including a long beard. They're wearing faded yellow robes, and resting on a glass head on the desk is a purple homburg hat.

    Most notable on the shelves amongst the books are a delicate music-box, plated with shiny nacre, a humanoid skull with flowers and birds carefully etched into its surface, a feather made of flame in a glass bottle, a potted nirnroot giving off a gentle hum, an hourglass slowly trickling upwards, a jewellery box and an ivory statue of a fat, laughing man leaning on a double-headed axe.
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    "My followers never were the type to use swords, but a bow is well within my reach," the King in Rags says. "It will take me some time to acquire such a weapon. I will send word if I do. For now..." One of the hounds Thryscir has seen before emerges from the swamp. "I believe you were meant to leave here with one of these. It is yours to do with as you see fit, as your faithful companion."
    Dismal Swamp

    Thryscir runs over to the hound and crouches down, trying to grab it's head and look in it's eyes. "Thanks man! Anything you need me to do right now?"
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    [New Inside - Castilla]

    Ilpholin will be guided into an elevator, which also have a camera inside it. But to be fair, it is specifically a military hospital so prison camp might not be too far off in some parts of it. They're clearly not just treating their own military here.

    Either way, she will be taken to a floor, neither the computer nor the elevator itself tells her which though she'd guess it's not the top floor based on how far up she goes.
    At the floor she arrives at, it seems busy enough. The hospital staff moving preoccupied with their daily chores. A man in a black military suit, likely a guard, is there to greet her however. "Hello miss. I am here to take you to guide you to your room. I will be position myself outside it, as is standard protocol, but you will be able to talk to the patient alone."

    Triple B - Ambrosia

    The other dragon grins. "I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as me then, I certainly set out to please." She chukles, then turning to gaze down upon Lydia's human form.
    "Mmm... that would be darkly ironic, especially if you had been drunk off your own liquor, dear Lydia. But we are both wise enough to avoid that sort of tragedy, mm? I do want to avoid people following us out here though. We aren't exactly inconspicious like this and people might start to put two and two together eventually. However, that is a riddle for another day. I shall return to my body and perhaps we shall see each other soon, yes?"
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    [New Inside - Castilla]

    Pretty far up. That much harder to justify jumping out the window to escape. Probably extra strength glass anyways.

    Ilpholin will salute the guard very briefly. "Thank you. Lead the way." The fey are under guard to at least some extent. Not surprising. Honestly not unreasonable either depending on the type of fey and what they've done.
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    Upstairs they go! This is the penultimate floor (unless I've misremembered or miscounted) and the staircase goes up again. Anyway, this room appears to be a study, lined with more bookshelves and a desk up against one of the arrow-slits. Despite the presence of shelves, the bookcases here are emptier than those below, with more trinkets and unusual items mixed amongst the magical tomes. There's also a comfortable looking sofa, with a child sleeping on it, curled halfway into a ball. She's about ten years old, with brown hair tied into braids that have gotten into a bit of a tangle, since she's not really been caring for them. She's wearing a too-large black t-shirt, serving as a short dress. It's belted at the waist with a belt covered in shiny fish scales, with a buckle carved from a large clam shell into the shape of a fish. She's barefoot, with grubby feet. Edelina should recognise her sister, though the clothing is new. Resting near one hand is a thick book bound with wooden plates, open to a page on internal illusory effects, such as manipulating emotions and wakefulness. Several cloth bookmarks hang out from other pages, both earlier and later in the book. Near her other hand is a crude wooden sword; Matilda's favourite of several such items.

    On the desk are several more books, a large faceted crystal, several ornate telescopes and, slumped over the desk and sat in an antique wooden office chair, is an old corpse. The dead man has desiccated, so he doesn't smell. He has dark skin and white hair, including a long beard. They're wearing faded yellow robes, and resting on a glass head on the desk is a purple homburg hat.

    Most notable on the shelves amongst the books are a delicate music-box, plated with shiny nacre, a humanoid skull with flowers and birds carefully etched into its surface, a feather made of flame in a glass bottle, a potted nirnroot giving off a gentle hum, an hourglass slowly trickling upwards, a jewellery box and an ivory statue of a fat, laughing man leaning on a double-headed axe.
    Edelina arrives on this penultimate floor first. She takes a look around, and breathes a sigh of relief at the sight of her sister. She frowns when she sees the state of her braided hair; it is rather tangled. Usually Edelina is the one to brush it out and re-braid it for her.

    If Matilda does not wake, Edelina will take a closer look at the artefacts upon the shelves. She will attempt to open the jewellery box.

    'Let's take a little look here then check out the top floor, make sure it's all safe. But we don't know what is illusion here and what isn't. And that dead dude is proper creepy.'

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    [Dismal Swamp]

    The hound doesn't seem to have eyes as such. However it gets around, it's certainly not by sight.

    "I will have a task for you and another of my servants. A bogeyman they call Mister Slash. There are demons in this land who hunt down fey for reasons I do not know. I will have you slay the demons to bring the fey under my banner." He pauses, the branches on his back swaying, as if in the wind. "But the demons are using some kind of instant travel over long distances. It's hard to catch them."

    [Tower Near Edelina's Farm]

    "Your sister seems safe and sound," Dipsnig observes quietly. Dead bodies don't really bother him. "And the dead man... must be the original owner, whose illusion we saw downstairs. Did he just die at his desk?"
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    The other dragon grins. "I'm glad you enjoyed it as much as me then, I certainly set out to please." She chukles, then turning to gaze down upon Lydia's human form.
    "Mmm... that would be darkly ironic, especially if you had been drunk off your own liquor, dear Lydia. But we are both wise enough to avoid that sort of tragedy, mm? I do want to avoid people following us out here though. We aren't exactly inconspicious like this and people might start to put two and two together eventually. However, that is a riddle for another day. I shall return to my body and perhaps we shall see each other soon, yes?"
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    Lydia gives a nice hearty laugh at the thought of being drunk. "I assure you, my liver is quite up to the task. I could drink my club dry twice over and not be drunk, but I will take the warning to heart." She promises before leaning over to kiss Ambrosia's scales. "Farewell, gorgeous. I assure you that you shall be in my dreams and fantasies. It has been a long time since I've felt so...alive." With that she steps back and gives a deep bow, giving Ambrosia the space she needs to move and head off to her stashed body.

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    The philosophical explanation seems to fly well above the monster's head, but it seems to grasp at least some of it. It stares at Wenomir for a bit, the slow burning gears in his head grinding as it tries to decipher the foreign words. He could sense that there was some deeper meaning that he was simply unable to grasp, but there was enough there for him to understand that at least. You...lived. Grew older. Survived Hunts. It was the best explanation that it could come up with for his unexercised mind.

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    Cantata looks slightly disappointed by Fayyaad's departure, but doesn't have anything to add or any objections to make.
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    [The Joining House]

    "There is nothing wrong in your hospitality, Votsona. You've done plenty. It's just..." she pauses to gather the right words. "Well, uh, for some of us, the stories behind our scars still ache, even if the wound has long since faded. And from my experience... well, the worse it looks, the greater it tends to aches, y'know?"

    Blanche's ears flicker before she continues any further, sensing the approaching stranger. She turns to scrutinize them... only to get an unintended eyeful of a very generous bust. It takes her a beat to realize what she's staring at and hastily raise her gaze. "I'm not afraid of a few foolish revelers," the catgirl responds as she reaches for the flagon. But as brave as her words are, she doesn't seem entirely confident in them.
    [The Joining House]

    "Well, you should know... in my own experience," Votsona is very careful with his tone. He really doesn't want to sound like he knows better than Blanche, or that what works for him applies to all situations. "It helps to talk. It hurt worse when I did not."

    The Frescot lady blows some hair out of her face and shakes her head, sauntering away, just a moment before the main doors spill inward to reveal a mostly naked troupe of antlered folk. They're preceded by a sweet-scented gust of wind, flower petals flying out across the floor like flakes of snow. A cry of greeting goes up from those in the room, answered with pure jolly cheer by the wedding procession. Young dancers spill into the room, laughing, skipping, cartwheeling, trailing long sashes of shimmering fabric. The miniature parade is centered around a large wagon positively festooned with flowers, wreathes, and myriad wedding gifts. A rather inebriated-looking young Frescot is sitting with his arms wrapped lovingly around a pale, dark eyed lady, their forms nearly as naked as those of their company. There are only a few who are completely unclothed... but most just wear careless slips of cloth and multi-colored body paint.

    Some of the revelers spill in playing music to announce the lucky couple. Some embrace the lodge-keepers. A whole squadron of them fan out to pester the newcomers. "Vots!" One of the boys says, sliding up beside the sitting man and reaching for his flagon.

    Votsona swats his hand away and swings his prosthetic arm up around the younger Frescot's neck, locking it there to give him a quick shake before he lets him go. "Reach for my drink again and you'll need to buy a new arm off me, Rami."

    "Sure, sure, Vots, uh..." Rami glances across the table. "Wow... who's this, Votsona?"

    "I wouldn't dare give the lady's name to trash like you without her permission, Rami. Ask her yourself, fool."

    But before the young man can do so, a whooping wave of revelers passes over the table, and it's like they transform the room as they pass. Flowers fall in their wake. One of them leaps and whirls past Blanche, strumming a lute, singing a strange song, and those seated nearest to them start to clap in time with the tune.

    One particularly bold (or drunk) Frescot performs a roughly thirty foot horizontal leap to land on Blanche and Votsona's table. He stamps a merry jig in time with the revelling music, hooves slamming the table top, and stops to squat himself down only when he seems to notice Blanche. He is, like most of the revelers, supple and handsome and dark of skin. His scalp is shaved on one side down to red fuzz, but the rest of his hair is grown long, tossed over the other side of his head. "Well, I'm sorry there, lady. I don't meant to dance where you eat." His eyes glitter with amusement... and something else.
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    Electra nods, and smiles at Fayyaad.

    "I'll catch up with you later, then, Fayyaad." The robotic rabbit comes up behind her and moves over to Fayyaad, extending an ear for him to take hold of, ready to take him back to Trog's. Electra herself stands and moves over to Cantata, extending a hand.

    "Let's take a trip, and get your license taken care of." Once Cantata and Fayyaad take their respective teleporter's extended limb, they'll disappear in two beams of light. Fayyaad will reappear just outside Trog's Tavern, while Electra and Cantata arrive at MERC HQ.
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    [Dismal Swamp]

    The hound doesn't seem to have eyes as such. However it gets around, it's certainly not by sight.

    "I will have a task for you and another of my servants. A bogeyman they call Mister Slash. There are demons in this land who hunt down fey for reasons I do not know. I will have you slay the demons to bring the fey under my banner." He pauses, the branches on his back swaying, as if in the wind. "But the demons are using some kind of instant travel over long distances. It's hard to catch them."
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    Thryscir's eyeholes widen a little. "A bogeyman. Now that's something I haven't faced down in a while. I've had some ways to deal with them in the past, no idea if it'll work here." He shakes his head. "I'm sure we'll be able to figure it out." Standing up, he sighs a little bit. "However, I do think I need to grab at least a cloak first, though I'd preferably also get some sort of light armor. My bones may be magic, but they're not very strong against anything blunt force related, so anything that can get between that and them is a help."
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    [Camping Trip]

    Koshal nods sagely at Wenomir’s explanation.
    ”He also practiced, like, a whole lot.” he adds.

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    Kray blinks in surprise.
    ”Well I can’t say I was expecting to find him just lying there. Could probably use a burial. I can’t imagine sleeping in the same room as that. It’ll smell.” And she’s quite sure even humans with their tiny noses will notice that smell.
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