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[royalpassport]

We're all stories. Tell me yours, and I'll tell you mine.

(Preferably over tea.)

Don't forget to start with "Once upon a time..."

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[royalpassport]

Now that's quite a tale. Was that the dead's way of answering the girl?

[ Like an offer of escape, in a way. Did the flames at least take her dreadful family, too? ]

I have a tale that begins with a beheading. A thief who lost his head, and had it put back on all wrong.

As for tea... All I've found here is a box of something called 'Tension Tamer.' It's got a dragon on it, and a princess.

[ FITTING, for all the talk of stories and fairy tales. ]

Interested?

[burntbridges]

I suppose, all things considered, it was. She's learned a fair bit of humility from raising a baby touched by death.

[She says that, and yet... her relationship with her daughter is very, very strained.]

I believe I've had that before - I wouldn't mind having another cup of it. Do you have a meeting place of choice?

[royalpassport]

Tell me she's at least free now.

[ Presumably, she would be, here in Quarantine, away from her land. But that's not a guarantee. Jefferson knows all too well what it's like to go from one prison to another. ]

What does it mean for the baby, to be touched by death?

[ He's pleased, at least, that she's interested in the tea. The story's intriguing enough, and it points to her coming from a world more like ones he used to travel to, rather than the Land Without Magic. ]

The sixth floor of the residential building? Unless you'd prefer someplace outdoors.