dahut

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Weren't you both wizard-dueling each other to the death?

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She started it.

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[STARING FOR A FEW LONG SECONDS as if he is trying to decide whether or not he believes this.]

...Well, she is very quick to act!

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In any case, she ran me over, she she can't be that mad about it.

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Oh, I think she was just a bit indignant about being turned into a car. She seemed mostly fine with a lot of the rest of it?

[Margaret is so chill that it is uncanny, love you Margaret.]

Though she really didn't like the book you were all dealing with. Or what it meant for Monsieur Lucien.

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Well, the book is what caused us all to start losing our minds, and Lucien-sama appears to also have the same book. So, the implication there is not great.

[ it's definitely fine. ]

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[IT'S DEFINITELY FINE.]

Monsieur Viktor said to destroy it, but I don't even know where it went... Still! I'm glad that Monsieur Lucien is willing to do that, at least. Cursed objects created by power-hungry people should definitely be kept far away from anyone who's that unstable.

[HE'S FOND OF LUCIEN BUT MY GOD.]

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Oh, yes. He needs help.

[ lucien has so many fucking brain problems. owner thinks it's kind of funny but he is smart enough to not say this out loud. ]

But it is good that there are people who are willing to yell a him.

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[HELP. Dahut just nodding solemnly... They don't have therapists in Arpechele until one gets airlifted in for Lucas but he agrees that Lucien needs help HIS BRAIN PROBLEMS. me typing powers like ig that too]

That's true! He and Monsieur Viktor are quite the match, and it seems like he's managed to make himself some friends, too.

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Yes, he has...

[ he sounds wistful for

some reason ]

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[WHAT IS HE SOUNDING WISTFUL FOR.]

...What are you thinking about...

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The two of us were very close.

[ he places a hand over his heart. ]

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Ah, I see, I see! You must miss him, then.

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Yes... but it will be quite awkward at the reunion, with Viktor-sama and all.

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Eh? [HM?] Will it...

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[ sadly nods his head

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People are entangled in such fascinating ways...! And there's your child to think about, too!

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I worry for them... I do not think this is the right environment to raise a child.

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No, being surrounded by violence and murder doesn't do a child much good. [...] Have you raised a child before...

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[ oh. ]

Yes, actually. Well... I would not say I was the main caretaker, at least.

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[HELP he hadn't actually expected this answer and there's a flicker of curiosity in his expression.]

How'd you end up in a situation like that?

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Um... a family tradition, I guess?

They just sort of keep dumping their kids onto me.

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Um? [HELP.] Just... They just leave their children in your care? Over the generations?

[LIKE ABANDONING A BABY AT A HOSPITAL??? BUT IT'S AN INN RUN BY A DEMON????]

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Well, the child could leave and go back home at any time, but. You know!

[ HE DOESN'T KNOW ]

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[HE DOESN'T KNOW!!!!]

So it's just like babysitting that could end whenever the child wanted it to? Why?