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[themistress]

[Mistress has a baby, but you'd really be hard-pressed to get her to admit it. So, for the past few days, there has been a rowdy, ill-behaved little boy running around in the lobby. He doesn't seem to speak very much, though he does laugh, and he's fond of magically zapping people to watch them jump.

But Mistress doesn't care. She just lets him run roughshod all over the place without so much as a glance. But anyone in the lobby might notice something a little suspicious about the way she glares when he peeks around the corner of her throne and then turns her footstool to life.

It trots out from under her feet, and Mistress adeptly catches the little boy by the upper arm.]

Stop it, Child. Leave me be.

[The little boy sullenly sucks his bejeweled binky and pouts at her until she releases him, whereupon he goes back to running around and casting magic at people.]

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[eternityalone]

[She frowns.]

That might not go over very well.

[themistress]

So?

[eternityalone]

[Katherine isn't even sure how to reply so she just shrugs and focuses on the kid and trying to get her finger back from him.]

[themistress]

[Child holds on for a moment, then lets go and crawls back to Mistress, who gives him a glance of disdain.]

[eternityalone]

[and... Katherine will just go about whatever she was planning on doing before.]