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[banished_dame]

Adjusting is always easier if you surround yourself with familiar things, yeah?

The castle just overloaded me. [The sound in the background would be a stack of books that's just lost their balance. Rose waves it off... she'll get to it.]

Everything I ever owned in the years I was in this place has just been returned to me.

'Mean, I know I wasn't always the neatest resident, but this is forcing me to clean. [She sighs, running her hand through her hair as she glances around her room.]

Sort'v not very fair of it.

[She makes a clicking sound with her tongue and then exhales, clapping her hands to get started.]

Oh! Anyone seen a lil' dinosaur 'round? Most my pets have seemed to wander on back, but she's missin'. I was just wondering.

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[spiritusaequitas]

'Scusin' me, miss, but --

Did'ja just say dinosaur?

[banished_dame]

Yeah, small - bit of a plant eater. I called her Alice.

[spiritusaequitas]

Sorry, but, last I checked, those were a bit extinct....

[banished_dame]

Yeah... just the castle does this thing.

Random places, new worlds -- one had dinosaurs.

[spiritusaequitas]

Is that ... that how we all end up here, then? ... Were y' all just in Boston?

[he's still trying to wrap his head around this]

[banished_dame]

Bost-- no. We were all in Paris.

[Wait....]

Did you just wake up here? Maybe not sure how you got here?

[spiritusaequitas]

Aye. Everyone keeps tryin' to tell m' brother and me that this whole buildin's alive. ... Shit like that just doesn' happen.

But ... if everyone's sayin' it ...

[heloise]

Will you be needing help?

[bloodsugar]

Cleaning... the bane of many's existence, for sure. You poor dear.

[...see him not offering to help LSKDJFSDF he's such a good friend.]

[withmymind]

Not here.

[longaevus]

Rose. [ There's a smile in her voice ] How have you been settling in?

[banished_dame]

Seems the castle isn't opting to let me ease into it, but I'm doing pretty good.

[banished_dame]

Where would here be, so I can cross it off my list?

[banished_dame]

[She notices that.]

It's dreadful, really. And where are you to help with this?

[banished_dame]

I'm not sure I'd want everyone seein' this disaster, but the offer is really sweet of you.

[banished_dame]

Yeah, takes a bit to get used to the idea, but it's sort'v a thing around here.

Castle. Sentient. Wishes. Random things that you can't really control and on occasion - dinosaurs.

[heloise]

I can keep secrets. [ Only she can't. It's her loss. ]

[banished_dame]

Oh? [Rose is amused.]

Well, apparently I can keep everything... all in my room.

[heloise]

The offer still stands.

[banished_dame]

Yeah? Alright. If you want to come down here, I'm in -- well, up here.

I'm in one of the towers, Satis, in eighteen-twenty.

[heloise]

I shall be there in a moment.

[ Longer than that, actually. It takes her twenty minutes or so to arrive, knocking on the door softly. ]

[banished_dame]

[Rose approaches the door, stepping over a few stacks of books and opens it with a smile.]

Hullo, you must be... actually I didn't get your name. I'm Rose.

[bloodsugar]

Me? Oh-- my dear Rose, you know I would love to help a friend in need, but my schedule for the day is absolutely packed! Filled to the brim! If I were to write everything I have to finish down, it'd stretch for pages and be quite boring, I assure you!

But you know I'd be there in an instant if I could, right?

[withmymind]

Kitchen. The food is still here.

[longaevus]

I'm glad for that. If you need any help please do let me know.