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[freeslider]

[Wade wasn't exactly a genius, but she could tell that the voices, once they had started, were concentrated pretty heavily in high-traffic areas. That made the kitchen an unusually chatty place, like eating in a crowded diner. Except, you know, one where all the patrons were invisible.

The dining room, by comparison, is quieter. Or maybe it's just more noise spread over a larger space. Either way, she decides to settle here for breakfast today. She's maybe halfway through her toast and coffee when the snippet of a conversation catches her attention. She sets down her mug and walks closer to the wall to see if she can hear it clearer.

'That's how I ended up with a tattoo of a aardvark on my boob.'

She can't help but laugh, perplexed as she was amused.]

There has been some really strange people in this castle...

[However, as she listens, the conversations rather suddenly becomes completely unfunny.

'Through your death, he shall rise again.']

Oh my god...I think someone was murdered in here.

[Appetite suddenly lost]

Comments

[hatesgoodbyes]

It wouldn't exactly be a first.

[freeslider]

Yeah...I guess that's true. When you think about it that way...I wonder how many rooms in here haven't seen someone die in them...

[hatesgoodbyes]

Pretty small damn number would be my scientific estimate.

You holding up? [They hadn't talked much for..well..ever since the dinosaur thing and some little bits after. Tex hadn't exactly been feeling very social.]

[freeslider]

[Funny how there was less and less of them but they still didn't see each other much, but Wade supposed it did that sort of thing to people. She'd been wrapped up in her own melancholy a few months ago, after all]

Creeped out a little, but yeah. You?

[hatesgoodbyes]

[It was the way of the Castle, people drifted and reunited. It was like a personal universe in motion.]

Haven't been creeped out in a few weeks, but aside from that it's good.

[freeslider]

[A very strange one]

I guess you could call this an improvement over last month. I might need earplugs to sleep, though.

[hatesgoodbyes]

[Strange is a kind way of putting it.]

Or I could loan you the mutt, he likes to sleep on your bed and snores like a rain.

[freeslider]

[She chuckles] Doesn't sound so bad. I miss having a dog around.

What's his name?

[hatesgoodbyes]

Mason, big yellow thing covered in fluff. He's not so bad really, and he seems to know when you are sad or depressed. He's better company than a lot of people I know.

[freeslider]

Animals are kind of amazing like that. I'd love to take him for a walk sometime, if you want.

[hatesgoodbyes]

That would probably be good for him, socializing and stuff.

[freeslider]

[A thoughtful pause] It's good for people too, y'know.