girl, you made the right mistake

[hairpine]

[Hello London, it's been a while. Valentine's Day approaches at a breakneck speed. Do you know where your children are?

One Michielaine can actually just be found at her usual cafe, working diligently at her homework. Sorta. Kinda. As diligently as she ever does, I mean.

But on the other side of town, making her way through the back alleyways, is a young lady who some may recognize as Margaret. Whether this is for the best or not is sort of up in the air, considering she is, for some reason or another, covered in blood. But she goes through the alleys at a leisurely pace -- less concerned with getting caught and more with scaring someone.

Not that she's all that concerned with that either.

Alternately, there's just some redheaded gent leaving a local bookstore with a rather large stack. All the titles are obscured.]

Comments

[virinosa]

[Well, that means he can lean a wee bit closer than is at all proper to murmur.]

You need to carry the one, dove.

[hairpine]

[She jumps a good few inches and shrieks. Some people turn their heads, but no one actually comes to look -- why would they, she's fucking nuts, of course she's just going to scream over nothing.]

[virinosa]

[my delicate maidenly eardrums.]

Aaaah, ahh...i...it's okay, Miss, it's just me...

[hairpine]

Oh... oh! Mr Liam! Good day! Are you well? I apologise, it was not my intent to frighten you!

[virinosa]

I think I should be the one saying that. Don't worry, I wasn't frightened, just a bit of a pleasant, um, ringing.

[hairpine]

A ringing in your ears? The medical term, I believe, is "tinnitus" -- from the Latin word for "ringing" -- it can be caused by a simple build-up of ear wax, or ruptured eardrums, anaemia, or any number of things! ... Are you well?

[virinosa]

I'm fine. I should be asking you that, Miss.

[hairpine]

Ah, I am doing quite well! These assignments are rather uninteresting, but my spirits are high and I am in good health.

[virinosa]

I'm glad to hear it.

[hairpine]

Was there something that you needed?

[virinosa]

I just wanted to see how you were doing! It'd be quite rude of me to just teach you how to see and then never check in to make sure you're doing alright.

[hairpine]

-- Ah! It did take some getting used to, that's certainly true, but I'm doing quite well now. I'm all right. Thank you, Mr Liam!

[virinosa]

Oh, that's a relief. Some people don't take to it very well, I'd have hated to had to take it away, but if it hurt you I'd have had to find a different way.

[hairpine]

... You can take it away as well?

[Man all her friends are so cool and she




knows fluent Old One?]

[virinosa]

I can now. I can do a lot of things I didn't used to be able to. They've said it's because of the changes happening to me...I don't worry about it too much, though!

[hairpine]

Oh, changes? What manner of change?

[virinosa]

I'm not really sure. I suppose I'm becoming less...human?

[hairpine]

... How interesting! Please do be safe, Mr Liam! It is of the utmost importance that you maintain what humanity you can!