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[grimreaping]

[ It's the middle of the night, and someone's not sleeping. But there are light footsteps on the rooftops, and a whisper of black cloth trailing just along the edge of your window as someone's checking up on you. Why tonight? You might have to ask, or guess. ]

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[ OOC: Dated to the night of the 19th. Kid is looking through windows like a

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[seethelanterns]

[Rapunzel is up reading, but when she thinks she notices something out the window she instinctively reaches for her frying pan, pausing when she gets a better glimpse of who it is.]

....Kid?

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[grimreaping]

[ settles lightly on the sill, black cloak still moving even though he's not, almost like it's alive ]

I'm sorry, did I wake you?

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[seethelanterns]

No, I was just...startled. I guess I'm always a little more...jumpy at night. [A small apologetic smile, lowering the frying pan.] What are you doing out this late?

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[grimreaping]

I didn't mean to startle you.

[ a frying pan? okay, sure, why not. ]

I was just ensuring things were... quiet.

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[seethelanterns]

It's okay. I know you wouldn't hurt me or anything...

Quiet? Well, as quiet as things can be with that Xanxus as a neighbour in Carter, I guess. Why? Has something happened?

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[grimreaping]

[ that makes him feel better ]

Nothing's happened, no. Why, has he been troublesome recently for you?

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[seethelanterns]

No more than usual. I just wondered if something had happened since I hadn't noticed you out this late before now. That's all.

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[grimreaping]

... I couldn't sleep.

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[seethelanterns]

Are you okay?

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[grimreaping]

[ quickly, easily: ] Certainly.

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[seethelanterns]

You're sure?

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[grimreaping]

[ moment of silence ]

It's strange, isn't it? How one date on a calendar can make you think more about someone absent than...

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[seethelanterns]

A date? Is this date today special somehow? [Curious, she genuinely doesn't know, and can't entirely understand even if she did recognize father's day, given she doesn't even remember her father. All she recalls is Mother Gothel.]

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[grimreaping]

It might not be celebrated in your world; in mine, today would have been Father's Day.

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[seethelanterns]

Oh. And you miss your father?

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[grimreaping]

Yes.