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books-and-bodies

Karen Teller is having a really, really, really terrible month.

(In the privacy of her own brain, she is willing to admit that if ever there were a month that was downright shitty, this would be it.)

Her sister is dead. Not, like, gone to heaven dead, stuck on earth as a ghost dead. Her niece is still a werewolf, and is making progress on her apparent goal of scratching up every piece of furniture in the house. Also she got a D on a history test. Just straight-up got a D, on a history test, because she's been too dead all month to even listen during lectures. And she's too - proud, or scared, or something, to call in her parents for help, so she's just living in this house with a ghost and a tiny werewolf and an elementary schooler and hoping that nothing goes horribly horribly wrong before she graduates.

She has a job. It even pays enough to hire the nanny all day. Which is, you know, super. It starts at six and ends at nine, and is all the way across town, and she can't drive, so when she's lucky she gets home around ten, and she mostly doesn't take a stab at her homework because by that time she doesn't want to do anything at all. She does manage to take a shower, usually, because she's been handling dead bodies, because, oh yeah, she works at a cemetery, which is why it pays so well.

Also, she finds out today, there are zombies. Just, y'know, actual zombies, wandering around the catacombs under the mausoleum, which is probably why the caretaker gave her a mace, although honestly this is a thoroughly ridiculous way to handle this problem and you would THINK, if you knew that there were zombies infesting your catacombs, you would be able to seal them off and move your business somewhere safer, or at least come up with a solution that's less completely stupid than arming sixteen-year-olds with medieval weaponry and expecting them to fend for themselves.

This is mostly what she's thinking about when she takes out the zombie that's about to take a bite out of her coworker's shoulder. She has to assume that the actual contact is, like, instinct, or something. She hits it again, after, for good measure, and again, until its face is completely smashed in, because maybe she can't beat the crap out of this horrible, horrible month, but at least she can make sure this fricking literal walking corpse isn't going to make anything any worse.

"There. Dead zombie. Hopefully it stays that way this time."

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not-like-i-care

Yeah seems fine.

books-and-bodies

Okay. Snuggle.

The next dream she has is about being stuck on the side of a snow-covered mountain, barefoot and with a baby in her arms that she's trying and failing to protect from the cold.

not-like-i-care

Why are they on a mountain? Why is she barefoot? He should go help her out probably?

books-and-bodies

These are all good questions she would not have thought of. They do not appear to solve the problems, though. She's not able to speak in this dream but he knows what she's thinking anyway, which is that they need to get out of the snow or find shelter of some kind before they freeze to death. Probably if they freeze to death nothing horrible will happen but it will be very unpleasant.

not-like-i-care

If they speed up that'll work too, it's hard to freeze while sped up. Is there some place that's not snowy? Why the fuck is it snowy anyway? Aren't igloos a thing? How does one build an igloo.

books-and-bodies

She feels like igloos are made out of blocks of ice and not just out of snow, and they don't have that much ice here? But hm. She was heading up the mountain but she doesn't remember why, probably she should be heading down the mountain. Maybe it'll be less snowy lower down. There are trees down further, they must be above the tree line right now.

It's easier to climb down than up, but it's still hard to climb without equipment. Or shoes. All the steps she takes hurt. The baby isn't crying anymore and she's very worried about what that means.

not-like-i-care

Eh, kids are tough, when he was one he wandered into the woods once and didn't get found until two days later and it was fine.

Maybe he could carry her?

books-and-bodies

Oooh, maybe. She clings to him and tries to shield the baby from the wind with the cloak she's wearing.

It's a lot warmer when he's holding her. Like, a lot warmer. And unreasonable amount of warmer. It's nice.

not-like-i-care

Oh good. He's so puzzled about why they're on this mountain - how did they get here? but maybe they can get off of it now.

books-and-bodies

Down below the tree line there stops being snow. It's warmer and flatter and forested. There's a village here, a little assemblage of houses with a big fire burning in the middle.

not-like-i-care

A village? Where are they where there are nearby villages? ...whatever. Fire sounds good.

books-and-bodies

The fire is warm. The baby's making noises again, she's very relieved. It's probably hungry? She doesn't remember whether it's her baby or not so she doesn't remember whether she can feed it.

not-like-i-care

Well she should try because then even if she can't she'll get magic for it later.

books-and-bodies

She's not sure how that would work exactly but she does remember the principle. Fine. She takes her shirt off and attempts to breastfeed the mystery baby. The mystery baby seems pretty happy about this so probably it's working. She's not really sure how you tell if you're doing this right, she doesn't feel like she's done it before. That's pretty weird, this can't possibly be the first time she's done this. She wonders why she's having so much difficulty remembering things.

not-like-i-care

Yeah it's pretty weird. He remembers who she is but not who the baby is or where this village is or how they got to the mountain or why they were going up it. Maybe they were going up it for an important reason? Maybe it is a mountain of amnesia and at the top is ...something.

books-and-bodies

Maybe? Maybe they should sleep and everything will make more sense later. They just climbed all the way down a mountain, they're probably tired now or something. Maybe someone should be watching the baby though. Are you allowed to sleep next to babies if you're near enough to them that you'll wake up if they cry?

not-like-i-care

He's pretty sure you can do whatever you want with babies until they're old enough to crawl away and then you just use yarn to tie them to a bedpost.

books-and-bodies

That's horrible!! Babies need snuggles and love and milk and people to talk to them so they learn words and people to change them so they don't get diaper rash. Also if you leave them alone too much they might die and if you give them blankets they're not swaddled in they might suffocate.

not-like-i-care

Wow that sounds like a lot. And human babies don't even belong to their parents for thousands of years until they pay it off. It's a miracle humans have them.

books-and-bodies

Well if they have sex they tend to get pregnant and then there are babies. Also lots of people want babies, they grow up into kids in a couple years and kids are great.

not-like-i-care

Oh yeah the not having to slow down would make a big difference.

books-and-bodies

Mhmm.

Well, she's not sure whether it's responsible to sleep without anybody watching a baby, but she's very tired, so maybe they should sleep anyway. Probably she should put her shirt back on first if the baby is done feeding.

not-like-i-care

Or they could sleep shirtless. Because it'd be kind of neat.

books-and-bodies

She feels like she had a reason not to do this but she can't remember what it was. It's not cold enough by the fire that she'd need it. Maybe it's fine.

Snuggles.

not-like-i-care