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"Can you make some?"

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"Probably."

Folded-up T-shirt, folded-up sweatpants, underwear, sports bra? Probably comfort is the most important thing here, next to, like, minimal decency.

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Do you want to put these clothes that she made on?

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I... can? Who is she. 

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The person who rescued you. You do not have to if you do not want to. You should do whatever you feel like doing. But the clothes are here and they're nice and soft and if they're the wrong texture we could get them in a different texture.

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She reaches out and pets the clothes very carefully. After a minute or so of this she starts putting them on.

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"...and her name is also Karen," he says to Cecelia. "At least this one doesn't talk."

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Alex twists around so he's still hugging Karen, or at least shielding her with his body, but also he is holding a gun steadily in both hands. 

"I don't know what your deal is," he says, "but I don't like it, and if you bother her any more than a loud noise would bother her then you will die."

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"That's a gun," says Valentine, because she is not entirely sure that everyone here, particularly the fairy, knows what a gun is. She's still holding the baby. "You shoot it at people and they, uh, die."

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"Seems like a shitty way to repay Elizabeth for getting her out of Hell when you couldn't."

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"It's - worse - if bad stuff keeps happening."

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"Yeah. I bet. Just, watching you kill people, that's a bad thing, women find war traumatic."

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He spares him an annoyed glance. He doesn't lower the gun.

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He is watching Alex warily.

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" - I don't know how traumatic it'll be for her but, like, I do actually object to you killing people. Especially the fairies. I don't know what happens to fairies when they die."

She's trying pretty hard to say this calmly and is only mostly succeeding.

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"I don't know if Karen can follow all his stupid rules. Especially when we're talking in my head. I don't know if that counts. I don't want her to get tortured half the time she thinks things for reasons that she cannot understand. I am not going to shoot him if he doesn't do anything but I do not actually see any other way to avoid this."

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"...okay."

 

Connor, I'm going to send you back to the fairy circle. I want you to run home and get my spellbook, okay?

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Yeah.

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She sends Connor home.

Connor's going to get my spellbook. I'm going to check if I have another spell, and then I'm going to focus on learning to unstick people until I can do it. I might be able to do this in as little as twenty-four hours. It will probably take a few days. 

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He nods tensely. 

 

He lowers the gun.

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She's just going to keep sitting by Alex and the other Karen and wait until Connor's been gone a reasonable amount of time.

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She finishes putting her clothes on. 

She would kind of really like more hugs but it seems like maybe everyone is busy right now?

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No no hugs are good. They shouldn't talk though. Just hugs.

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She can do no talking. She's used to it. Hugs are nice.

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"Should we - do anything - "

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