[she's turning around and holding out a little dead rat! it has a fat, dead little body, a bird skull sewn on where its head should be, and bony wigs. she starts moving his little arms to make him wave.]
[laudna moves the rat to shake his head no. and then she starts speaking in a deep exaggerated voice with an aggressive cockney accent, only barely moving her lips.]
No way. I was trapped in a little box yesterday, I was. Couldn't get back to Laudna no matter what I did. She's a smart one, she'd know better than to talk to me when I weren't even there.
Oi! I'm no rat, I'm a familiar! Call me a rat one more time.
[she pats the little rat on his head.]
Oh, settle down, Pâté, he didn't mean anything by it. Yes, he was in the box with my clothing, the silly. He must have crawled in there because he was lonely and missed me.
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Maybe we'll find a little friend for you in here. What would you think about that?
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You talking to me?
[ or herself again, which, honestly both options are bad. neither of them should get little friends. ]
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[she's turning around and holding out a little dead rat! it has a fat, dead little body, a bird skull sewn on where its head should be, and bony wigs. she starts moving his little arms to make him wave.]
Say hi!
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............ Is that who you were talking to yesterday?
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No way. I was trapped in a little box yesterday, I was. Couldn't get back to Laudna no matter what I did. She's a smart one, she'd know better than to talk to me when I weren't even there.
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... Right. [ Dubious ] So guess the rat was in your... stuff?
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[she pats the little rat on his head.]
Oh, settle down, Pâté, he didn't mean anything by it. Yes, he was in the box with my clothing, the silly. He must have crawled in there because he was lonely and missed me.
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A familiar? He help you fight?
[ this is the only kind of magic familiar he knows... combat... ]
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[anyway, at this point, she sets the dead rat down, and it's bony wings start to flutter and somehow it begins to fly around.]
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this might as well happen but he still looks baffled ]
... He's... pretty mobile.
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[ he can't JUDGE he has a ROBOT CAT in his party, but ALSO ]
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[ he USES it, but this is clearly very different from. the magic he knows. so moving on; ]
That other one still not responding, then?
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[she scowls at that, tugging a little on her hair.]
You see, she doesn't exist separately from me. Her soul is trapped in my body. So there's hardly anywhere she could go.
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So she's still with you and she's either choosing not to talk, or this place found a way to silence her.
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[but it's not that hard to tell she's very worried about the idea that it could be the latter.]
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[ eight weeks later... ]
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