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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-28 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yes... you're right.

[ alas, the spooky shadow-hands emerge once more, and they're pulled into another memory!

in the dead of night, kate and her companions confront a shadow-woman and her partner. when asked to explain themselves for the trouble they've caused, they say they have no time left. they've been invited.

awkward. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-29 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ well. her head is smoking a bit. ]

You don't need to apologize.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-30 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
... Yes.

If that's the cost of gaining a face, then I'd rather stay like this forever.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-30 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? Do you mean the "living dolls," or...

[ ... just dolls? ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-30 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ well... she nods at that. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-06-30 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
... Emilico is a cheerful girl who draws people in with her warmth and kindness. Shaun is thoughtful and clever. Ricky has a gentle heart, and Lou is perceptive of others' feelings...
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-01 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh... we do.

Shaun is John's attendant, as is Ricky with Patrick, Lou with Louise, and Emilico with me.

[ one of these things is not like the others. ]
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-02 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
It's customary for shadows to name their living dolls after themselves.

... I didn't, though. I wanted Emilico to be her own person, separate from me.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-02 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know... The only shadows I know of are myself and the ones from the house.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-03 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. But not the way it is now.
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[personal profile] sootprints 2024-07-03 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I've managed to gather allies, to cast doubt on the rules of the House, and to work my way up in the ranks within the House's hierarchy.

Although... I may have hit a sort of roadblock. There's only so much that a child can do against adults.

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