When she thinks she can see him without crying again, she holds her baby close and walks silently back to Rana's.
The room has been replaced with - something else. She has no idea what this means. She has nobody to ask but Rana. Everything she asks places her further in his debt, of course, but it hardly matters now.
She steps inside.
I think academic knowledge of old English and old Norwegian is kind of spotty, I wonder if there's any way that works out to Cecelia being - valuable to people who aren't her children or Rána or just - worried about her on principle.
We admittedly would need it to be someone who knows about.... weird stuff.
We know some researchers who know about weird stuff. Probably worth looking into.
Looks like the nearest shooting range has a class for kids, do we want to do that too? In the spirit of beating up medieval Scandinavia.
We tell them they only get it if they're good for the next couple weeks. I think. Poor Cecelia needs some carrots. Also they have in no way convinced me that are responsible enough to be handed weapons of any kind.
All right, then.
She shares a bed with her not-sister. She in no way has to do this, but if she didn't someone would have to go to the effort of moving furniture, and also she hasn't had any proper snuggles in years.
"How did the other Karen, like, feel about Alex, do you know that?"
"No, ew? He was her gym teacher. And coach person. And mentor in fighting the forces of darkness. And bodyguard. And I'm making this more ambiguous the longer I go on, but no, they were not."
"Not that I don't see the appeal. But I do think she'd feel pretty weird about her alternate self dating him."
"Ahh. How messed up is the slavery thing, anyway, like, on a scale of Gamesters of Triskelion to Pikachu?"
"Trying to figure it out. Also what kind of person lists Gamesters of Triskelion as their other - "
"I couldn't think of an appropriately dire real person. Probably because all of the appropriately dire real people did not have their names recorded by history. Also because I read less than you."
"One of the most important people in her life.
"She didn't have, like, parents, y'know? I think she kinda - wanted someone to take care of her. Someone who could handle vampires better than me. And he was that, maybe, she kinda - he didn't actually keep her safe, obviously, and maybe she even knew he couldn't, but she felt like he was going to. On some level."
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