Four rooms, three baths. Stairs are old so don't run up them. You'll have to share a room with Vieve, if that works. Dog likes his space and I don't think you want to be kept up at night hearing Borden's monologues.
Rent's cheap, because this place is cheap. It's haunted. I hope she told you that before you got here.
[ Launches into the small speech again, cheerfully. ]
Zipporah. Moses escaped Egypt and became a shepherd and then met and married a woman named Zipporah. Good, strong name -- straight out of Exodus. I like it.
The girl with the bear on a bike at the circus calls me Zip, though.
I'd like that. Me and the girl with the bear on a bike are friends, does that mean we get to be friends too? You don't need a bear on a bike for us to be friends, some people think that.
...wait.
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Hi, I'm Billie. I guess you're bunking with us. You okay with splitting rent five ways?
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I work at the circus, so I make money and I've got nothing else I need to be spendin' it on.
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Billie's a boy's name.
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Rent's cheap, because this place is cheap. It's haunted. I hope she told you that before you got here.
And, guess not, since it's my name.
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You have a dog? She said plenty 'bout the ghosts but nothing about a dog.
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Zipporah. Moses escaped Egypt and became a shepherd and then met and married a woman named Zipporah. Good, strong name -- straight out of Exodus. I like it.
The girl with the bear on a bike at the circus calls me Zip, though.
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I guess I'll just call you Zip, too.
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