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Days slowly elapse.

Yvette continues to not have a very good time, and her method of dealing with it doesn't change. It's a way to pass the time, at least, which is... something. Not much, but something.

James gets more breaks to visit Aurene, usually spurred on by Yvette screaming at him to get away from her and leave her to suffer, or how she hates him and she'd rather deal with her asshole of a brother, or the like. It varies. She changes her mind and calls him back near immediately, of course, but if one reads between the lines from how much she tells him she hates him and wants him to go away, Yvette seems to prefer having her husband at her side over her brother. Even if she is incredibly mean about it.

Aurene has forgiven her father by the next time he visits her, and the second visit is less combative than the first. She is absolutely still a biting, petulant little gremlin, though. Even with both of her caretakers trying to keep the damage to a minimum, it's kind of clear that keeping blood off of the furniture was the least of this furniture's worries. Lots of things acquire little infant fingerprints, embedded into the wood or the metal or the stone. At least she tends to take out her tantrums on furniture, instead of structure of the overall house, and doesn't seem to want to break things just to break them. It has a purpose, or it happens incidentally as she tries to accomplish something else. The worst she does is make a couple of infant sized holes in walls; to have speedy escape routes that the adults can't follow her through. Because she's smart enough to notice that they don't want to break things to catch her, of course. Evading the adults is a fun game.

Eventually, Yvette's heart starts to speed up.

"Oh—of—fucking—course—it's going to end in a climax," she hisses, writhing in James's grasp and clawing uselessly at her chest, "How incredibly narratively—augh—!"

Okay, actually, that's too much pain to speak through, and instead she makes a horrible pained keening whine and thrashes harder instead.

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painted_ephemeris

Aurene is here to help her daddy wiggle his ears. See! She can reach up and wiggle them. She's helping!

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He grins at her. "Well I guess I can wiggle my ears, now, too, thank you princess."

painted_ephemeris

"Mhm! You're welcome!" says Aurene, grinning back.

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"Even if the equivalent of ear wiggling doesn't work, surely there's, mm. The equivalent of stretching. Pay attention to something at the very edge of your range, and take a step back, but try to keep hold of it. Or something," she muses.

brilliant_smile

"...huh, that could be possible. Maybe."

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"I'm going to have to personally coach you on every single new possible way to poke it, aren't I," sighs Yvette, sounding amused and a little fond.

brilliant_smile

"I am clearly not amazing at figuring out how the inside of my head works."

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"You're lucky you're cute."

brilliant_smile

"My most important quality."

painted_ephemeris

"Nu-uh. Daddy!"

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"... She has you there, love."

brilliant_smile

"She absolutely does," he says, hugging her close to him and nuzzling her nose.

painted_ephemeris

"Eeeee!" Snuggles.

"Play?" she wheedles her father, with big sad eyes. She has been trying to follow her parents' conversation, but it's so complicated, and she's bored.

brilliant_smile

"Anything you want, sweetheart."

painted_ephemeris

"Yay!"

She wants to go play outside, and be thrown at things! She's getting so good at climbing trees, she'll be the best.

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"I guess I'm done for the day," says Yvette from inside, amused. She finishes the final hem of the ruffled purple dress, and hangs it up to dry. "I'll be playing with my witch power, love. Remember that you can play with her and do other things at the same time too, hm?"

brilliant_smile

"Yes, ma'am. I think I am going to enjoy this whole 'teacher' thing you've got going on, there."

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"I'll be sure to make a pair of fetching glasses while I'm messing around. Complete the look for later."

brilliant_smile

"I have the best wife in the world."

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"You do, it's true."

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It's a couple of days later when James suggests: "So, we should probably start getting you used to humans."

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Yvette goes very still.

"Uh. Not just by putting one directly in front of me, right, just. Borrowed laundry or something?"

brilliant_smile

"Yeah. We should do it slowly, start with something like you said, borrowed laundry, until you're fine with that, then move on to more difficult things."

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"Right. Okay. ... Probably it can be actual laundry, I'd be fantastic at getting tough stains out. This is a weird thing for me to focus on but nonetheless it's what came up."

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