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aprincess is playing on a large playground, wearing an adorable dress. There's all manner of outdoor toys with her, and she's occupying herself blowing bubbles into the wind.

dawnrise is... well, she's not in a dress, but she's not in jeans. It's a black skirt. For once. Before anyone panics, she's wearing a normal t-shirt ~~with Mickey Mouse on it~~, and her legs are covered. They're just covered by thigh highs. She's hanging out in the kitchen, which is piled with a mess of ingredients for pizza.

And then there's this guy.

hallowedshore has been gone for a couple days, but he's back now. He's walking down the hallway headed toward his room, dripping water all over the place. There's a steady trail of it from a nearby shower, and it looks like he took one fully dressed. His expression is blank and he smells unpleasantly of blood (which has stained his clothes), ash, and smoke, but not nearly as much as he did. ]

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[He raises both eyebrows right back at him.]

What, you're not happy I didn't manage to kill anyone? I bit the shit out of Inaya, she's lucky I didn't get to her throat.

[He stuffs his hands in his pockets, shrugging.]

Whatever. The fuckers were worse than I thought, I didn't get much on them before. I'm pretty sure younger-dad got some out of me, so I'll see what he came up with.

[ He squares his shoulders a bit. ]

Of course I'm glad you didn't hurt anyone, you bitchsquealer! I just mean... that I worry. Do you think he can rid you wholly of the little condition?

[Sorry, what, he can't hear you over the sound of his own amusement. There's a half-smile back on his face, but then he looks confused.]

Condition?

The parasites. I don't know much about them.

Oh, those.

[He makes a slight face, shaking his head slowly.]

They're gone.

[ He relaxes then, and smiles slightly. ]

Glad to hear it. Really.

[His expression quickly goes back into smirking territory, and he shrugs.]

So when'd you show up?

Twenty-two mind-blowing hours ago.

I'm sad I missed it. Walk with me.

[He would like to get to his room and change out of this mess.]

[ He will do so, looking at the rooms as he goes to re-familiarize himself. ]

You'll have to contribute your view to the run-down of what's been happening for me.

How's that?

[No, really, where does he start? It shouldn't take them long to get to his room, since he was already on his way there.]

I don't know, just... anything interesting? More interesting than usual? Anything I should watch out for that's new?

... I got your sister narwhals.

[That's pretty much the extent of interesting things he's done. Interesting as in enough to talk about, since finding critters is still normal for him.]

... sea unicorns. Sounds about right. I'm sure she adores them. Do you mean like. Real ones?

Yeah there's an ocean a couple halls over.

[He jerks a thumb in that direction.]

It's fucking cold.

I'll have to go check it out at some point. I have a feeling I'll be helping around the house a lot since Mom's still not back. It's not fair that Kira and Dad have to do it all. How's your folks?

Hey, you act like I never help.

[Pause. Reconsider that statement, mister.]

You act like my mom never helps.

[Babies are definitely not Aden's forte. He can't even lie about that.]

Eh, they know I'm here now. Shit went down a while back when Larxene got his hands on Inaya. I went to get her parents and-- you know my mom. Her senses are as good as they come. I got busted.

[ He laughs softly at that. ]

I'm sure you don't mind being fussed over.

[He gets a flat look.]

They've been okay about not being completely overbearing, actually. I think it's the time difference.

Your parents are pretty cool about things like that. I'm not terribly surprised.

It's because they hate being fussed over, I'm sure.

[Though admittedly the older set are better than the younger one. The ones from his actual timeline are even better, though also fussier in ways.]

You're a lot like them, you know.

[ He smiles and leans against the wall. ]

Oh, don't even start.

[Look, it's his room in sight!]

It's true. You inherited a certain inaccessibility from them. You don't wear your heart on your sleeve.

Rare trait, I know. Did anyone expect me to?

[His door isn't even locked. He pushes it open, keeping his foot at the bottom of the door to keep any critters from escaping.]