"I don't have a fairy. But I can gift-wrap you some explosives for your terrible stepmother if there's like - no other option and Adanir's banging his head against the morality wall in vain."

"I don't really know how to safely handle explosives myself, although I guess my fairy might protect me - I'd just be worried about catching someone besides Kelsey."

"Yeah, thus the 'if there is no other option.' I'm pretty sure there are other options. But hey, if there aren't - surgically placed explosions."

"Thanks."

"You're welcome!" says Nadi, brightly. "Fair warning, though, no touchie my explosives until I know you better, they are dangerous things. That go boom. And catch things on fire."

"I'm not going to go rooting around in unfamiliar explosives."

"Thank you, you are the beacon of intelligence among the - actually, usually people leave them alone, it's just the ones that don't that stick in my mind for the rest of eternity."

"Have there been many accidents?"

"Nope. Just me getting really upset with some people and then Adanir actually sitting me down and asking me to calm down. I take my explosive safety seriously, I know it doesn't seem like it, but I do."

"I have yet to see you actually interacting with any explosives, so I hadn't formed a strong impression of how seriously you take it."

"Very seriously," says Nadi, with a serious expression. "For reference."

"Noted."

"Anyway," she says, brightening immediately, "How are you liking the palace?"

"I haven't seen very much of it. It seems pretty, and - palatial."

"It is both of those things. Also the pillows are super fluffy, that is my favorite thing about the palace."

"I haven't tried mine yet."

"Super fluffy. If you want to act like children and make a pillow fort, I am so up for it."

"I'm not really in the mood, but thanks."

"I know. I'm sort of trying to cheer you up, and it's not really working. Uh. I can shoo, totally fine with shooing, too."

"It's usually pretty hard to cheer me up while I'm upset about something that hasn't been fixed yet. Sorry."

Nadi nods. "Totally fine, I am not going to be upset with you for not being cheerful for very appropriate reasons. Let me know if there's a thing that I can do to help." Pause. "Oooo, poisons, I bet poisons would be better than explosives, I really suck at them but it's not really that difficult to make something that kills people when imbibed."

"I'm pretty sure she's onto me knowing what's going on, so I don't know if I can get her to taste anything before she'd get her fairy to look it over. I think I have to wait for the prince."

"I tried," sighs Nadi. "I don't really have it in me to plot murder for someone I don't know, sorry."

"I don't advise getting to know her. I think her fairy brainwashes everyone she meets," shudders Mira. "Mine is probably the only reason I don't love her and call her Mom."

".... Ew. Super ew. That's creepy."