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Katie settles in pretty well into the house, and later, when a bed has been obtained, into Lizbeth's room. She wears Lizbeth's hand-me-downs to start, then gets her own clothes; she doesn't have strong opinions about what she should be wearing, but the sizing on Lizbeth's old things isn't really right, and there aren't all that many still lying around anyway.
She has inexplicably tidy handwriting - inexplicably has handwriting at all; inexplicably can spell fifteen words in twenty instead of zero - which she uses, rather a lot. She makes a list of things that are food and magnetizes it to the fridge for reference, adding to it when she locates more things that are food, and when she is trying to tackle complex books she takes notes on who all the characters are so she doesn't have to page backward to remind herself, and she discovers journaling, even though she doesn't have that many events to record.
One day, the event she has to record is: Chris says to morrow she wil go to the DMV and shud not have us ther becas it may take six ours. We wil be baybe sat. If I hav ben baybe sat be for I do not remembre it.
She is curious about the imminent babysitter, and is up bright and early on the day when same may be expected.
queensidecastle
"Nope. Tiny ones work just fine. Better, actually, because if we leak too much that is generally considered very bad for us."
queensidecastle
"In any kind I can think of, the hole goes away. Maybe not as fast in some cases. And some kinds of alive things are too small to poke holes in very easily, so I wouldn't know about those."
queensidecastle
"Yes..." says Chris. "I can. But I think I'd rather not do it now. There are things specially designed for safely poking small holes in people to get a little bit of blood, and I don't have any in the house, but I can get some."
queensidecastle
"Even people with blood have plenty of other things in them too," says Chris. "Bones and muscles and organs, for example."
queensidecastle
"Harder to check. There's a way to look at someone's bones without doing any gross or harmful things, but it needs expensive equipment I don't have."
queensidecastle
"I haven't personally checked. But I've never heard of anyone else who didn't. And it would be hard not to notice, and if someone did notice and didn't decide to hide it, a lot of people would get very excited and we'd hear about it almost for sure."
queensidecastle
"It should probably be a secret. Otherwise a lot of people will get very excited about you, and some of them might not be nice."
queensidecastle
"Lizbeth and Gina are both sensible people and I don't think they'll be telling anyone."
After they have next run errands, they run into a bit of a snag.
"Euagh!" is Katie's reaction to the alcohol-soaked wipes they obtained with the lancets.
"Euagh!" is Katie's reaction to the alcohol-soaked wipes they obtained with the lancets.
queensidecastle
"...Euagh?" says Chris, pausing in the act of removing the wipe from its little square packet.