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[hylights]

[The video opens on Zelda sitting in her office at Gramarye. She smiles once the video begins, a little subdued.]

Hello. I hope everyone's faring better after the events of a couple of months ago.

[She considers saying more, only to shake her head slightly. Best to let terrible memories lie. Besides, that's not the point of this broadcast.]

This is going to sound like a strange question, I'm sure. But I was wondering if anyone had advice on what sort of things are useful to buy when moving into a new home? I'm looking at apartments at the moment... they have furniture in them, but I'm not sure what else usually goes into a living space, especially here in Riverview.

[There are just a lot of gadgets that seem useful. And fascinating. But how many of them are practical? That's the real question. After a moment, Zelda has to smother an awkward laugh.]

It's probably obvious that I haven't done this before. [She looks down for a moment before holding up a magazine, folded open to a page advertising a dehumidifier.] And... I’m interested in how these work, but how necessary are they? How humid can a home really be?

Comments

[11calls]

Yep!

[The word is just chirped before she adds:]

No, I don't know how I did it either.

[hylights]

[She can't help it - she laughs.]

Oh no! At least you can use the bread without toasting it first?

[11calls]

[Honestly, Alex doesn't mind the laughter, instead she greets it with an audible grin. She knows how ridiculous this is.]

Oh yeah, that's definitely true.

[hylights]

[At least Alex's good humour is evident in her voice. It makes Zelda smile in turn.]

To be honest though, my first experience with cooking was accidentally dropping an apple into a fire.

[11calls]

Did it end up becoming a coal or did it turn into an amazing baked apple-thing?

[hylights]

It was much closer to the first one. [She huffs.] It was annoying too, because my friend can throw such things into the fire and come out with wonderful food. Maybe he's just better at it.

[11calls]

Or he just had more practice. Practice I'm told is the way that people get better at stuff like that.

Not that I'm testing out that theory with cooking. I like our house.

[hylights]

He did do it much more often than me, it's true.

[An amused huff follows.]

What about the microwaves? I've managed to, well, explode some things in those. They're a bit hard to get used to at first.

[11calls]

I'm okay with microwaves mostly. I can do like... those prepacked meal things. But sometimes it's hit or miss. You know, either your hot pocket is frozen in the middle or it's... splashes of cheese and red sauce and bread all across the microwave in the office breakroom.

[Alex has had experience with that before.]

[hylights]

Um. [There's a pause, hesitant, before she asks.] I'm assuming that's a food, not something to do with clothing.

[Pockets, y'know.]

[11calls]

[And that makes Alex laugh. She can't help it.]

Yeah. It's a kind of enclosed sandwich thing that's frozen and then you throw it in the microwave. Convenience food.