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Who: DelPavo + anyone
Where: DelPavo
When: Day 276, evening, post-plotting
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[Whatever locks the Geardorm has on its main doors have now been very securely locked. And then re-locked, just to be sure.

A cranky tiny is scrutinizing them as if he's seriously considering adding more.]

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It does.

Thank you for dinner. I think . . . I'm going to go lie down for a bit.

*nods*

Ah... sorry if it bothers you if they're coming over.

You should rest, you've been out for a while.

It doesn't. After all . . . I'm really the one that bothers people.

Mm. Good night, Edward.

...you're sure?

[Nods.]

I'm sure.

But I thought...

*sort of. trails off in a world of uneasiness*

You thought . . . ?

*mumbling a bit*

Thought you hated them.

I was a vampire and Canis really, really really didn't like people who ate other people the game before I became that way. So much so that there wasn't any middle ground, or room for mercy.

But, Edward . . . that's not hating. That's being scared. For my team, and Sunny . . . and for myself.

Sometimes... it can have the same results. And I guess what I was told wasn't that you "hated" them exactly, but that you didn't want anything to do with them.

*runs his hand over his hair*

So I just... wanted to apologize, if their coming over was upsetting you. But I can't keep pretending that they're not my friends.

But . . . when people come over, I try not to be around because of Mirror!

*shakes his head*

It's been longer than that... the person who told me you didn't like them, it wasn't long after I woke up here that he said that.

When I was still a vampire. Right?

*nods*

Then . . . wouldn't it have been like I just said?

I guess, I...

*shakes his head*

Sorry to bother you with it. If it does upset you or anything, just... I'll try to keep things separated.

It really is fine. Right now, I'd be the one bothering them, wouldn't I?

I don't think it would bother them that much... it doesn't really bother me, most of the time.

Really?

*nods*

She hasn't changed who you are. You're still you, she's just there listening in. And most of the time, the Judges could be listening anyway.

[She lowers her head just for a moment, bangs shadowing her eyes . . . ]

[She lowers her head just for a moment, bangs shadowing her eyes . . . ]and brings up the back of her head to rub at them before looking back up, with a smile that could turn storm clouds into rainbows.]

Thank you, Edward.

*...smiles back, even though he's looking away a bit again*

It's the truth, s'all. And I don't think there's many people who could dislike you, even with Mirror still there.

[Touches her shoulder, almost unconsciously.]

. . . not me. But for some people, the Mirror they know becomes all they can see.

*only partially raising his head*

But there's still others.

I... can't say for sure, but I don't think it would bother Jace, at least. But it's your choice... and if it's what you want, I'll keep to our side.