#ooc

I suspect Zara has a near encyclopedic knowledge of upholstery fabrics...

Ice is creating his own mental catalogue of colors. Burnt Sienna = Ugly Orange, Raw Sienna = Dog puke color, Seafoam = A not-bad green.

Zara is that lady in the clip you showed us. G

Ice is scruffier, btw, because without sharing a room with Zara, laundry has gone from hamper-and-drawers, back to floor-and-sniff-test.

Teen guys, a different form of wildlife.

Oy

Oi!

It's cool, just added insurance one of the Zarem is less likely to be snapped up elsewhere. *jk* Hi, Rae! (afk)

Hi bye!

Zara collects things

...like men?

:D

so it seems!

Oi, Rae!

Well if he's scruffy at dinner, Hannah may wash him.

"He" being Ice, of course.

And he thinks JANET is an overbearing mother

Well he has to wear a costume ANYWAY.... might as well wash his clothes, right?

ha

I am picturing him with the same sullen look you see on dogs being dragged to the bath.

this is apparently destined to be a weekend of dismal dinners

Well I -would- credit him, having met Hannah, with the good common sense to shower and dress in clean clothes But.....

Well, the cleanest ones he could find, yes. And shower, yes.

I can see him huddled with his bony knees up to his chest, arms wrapped around them, in the tub with the shower going and Hannah wielding a long-handled scrubber-brush.....

L He's not THAT bad, but I can see it, too!

...Yep, that's somebody's fetish.

Zara will shield him the best she can

Wet hair plastered down over his face, bubbles resting on top....

But I think a few hours of dementia-mode Miriam may have sapped her

Ratchet doesn't come and all the other grown ups get tiddly....

Yeah. Zara will find somewhere to lay low

Ice may be getting a dim idea of why Zara is as neurotic as she is....

*jk*

Oh, I imagine Hirim is filling Ice's glass pretty regularly.....

Technically, wine HAS gone bad.....

hahahaha

Heheh!

Zara loves her family, but... yup.

Demonstrative bunch.

Spring. A week away. Ice can deal. He's polite. He follows Zara's lead, up to the point she goes to hide in a cabinet, anyway.

(Afk again!)

I am just imagining she's stressed out and tired. Unless Hirim is filling her up with manischewitz too

Of course he is!

ha.

In which case, she probably falls asleep in a chair

Ice can sleep on the couch.

Oh, she'll get scooped up and poured into bed.

Drunk on wine is likely predictable

chatters on about things, giggles, then zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

It's been a hell of a month.