#rivervale_lodge

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"Well - she's playing with fire with the Ailil, I think."

"Yes, I worry too. Make sure she knows our house is open to her okay? If she needs a place to decompress"

"Yeah..."

"The Browns are okay, but they're not fae."

"No they're not. " A thoughtful look "Shame we couldn't pass some of what the Thomases got around. Then again, maybe not. If one of them had become a slaugh... mmm" A shake of her head

"Well, sluagh are fi-... oh Varich."

"Sometimes it's easy to forget but she's still on guard around them"

"Yeah." Sigh.

"Symon's my best friend, y'know?"

"I know, one of your earliest and best friends at that" A nod "And he's hard to understand, but he's a good man... " She looks about the place "Also terrifying and darkly scary" throwing that in in case he's here to save him some pride

"Well yeah, all that."

"Yes. Bit of Loki in that boy."

"Yeah." Fond.

A smile

"I should invite him over, I know he skipped out on party."

"Too many people and too much noise and light."

"He's always welcome too.. "A beat "As long as he stays out of the master bedroom"

"Ew, yeah, no."

A nod "And no taxiderming without getting permission"

"Noted."

"Thanks. " She looks to the kitchen "Okay. CJ has fallen asleep. Put him in the playpen. Oak will guard him. You help me with the meal okay? "

"Can do!" She carefully sets the baby in the pack-n-play.

"Oak... watch the baby"

Oh he could for hours! And OAk assumes a protective stance. He is duty

And Dagmar goes to help her mom in the kitchen. A good sous to a great chef!

And that means she gets to taste test, and a smooch between the horns.

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