01 | video

[treasureddoll]

[ So the video function activates - perhaps little Merry has pressed the wrong button after all - and you get . . . well, a video of an ear and long blond hair, neatly tied into small braids. Instead, there's someone speaking anyone and rather crossly too. ]

Hello?

[ A pause then a slight grumble. ] My name is Merryweather Hargreaves, sister to

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[nolessthanseven]

It's not a toy.

What's your brother look like? [being one with many brothers, she always wishes to help little girls find theirs~]

[treasureddoll]

No, just some strange contraption that talks back to me.

[ She frowns. ] You . . . don't know my brother?

[nolessthanseven]

It's a Dreamberry. Like a cell phone.

I might've met him. Who knows? I've met a lot of people here.

[treasureddoll]

What's . . . a cell phone?

His name is Count Cain Hargreaves. I'm sure you've heard of him somewhere.

[nolessthanseven]

...it's this, uh...thing you use to call people. Like what you did with your brother.

Oh, Cain. Yeah, I met him once or twice. We hung out in a cemetery a while back.

[treasureddoll]

Oh, I see! Like a telephone back at home except . . . you can see people.

[ She huffs. ] A cemetery? Really now, what was he doing there? [ Digging corpses again? ]

[nolessthanseven]

Give or take, yeah.

Just sitting, for the most part. We chatted a bit. I brought candles.

[treasureddoll]

[ . . . Are you one of those girls he's flirting with now? ]

Chatted about?

[nolessthanseven]

[Izzy flirts with everyone. Cain, however, likely has not flirted with Izzy.]

Things. Why so curious?

[treasureddoll]

He's my brother. I've every right to be curious.

[nolessthanseven]

I'll tell you this now, then: there are some things about your brother you will not want to know. Not sure what they'll be, but it'll happen.

[treasureddoll]

Don't you think I know that much? [ She frowns. ] Brother always protects me from these things and that's why I want to ask other people about it.

It's not that I'm going to do something and run into danger head first. I just want to know.

[nolessthanseven]

Take it from me. I've got two older brothers, and there is plenty about them I don't want to know by any stretch of the imagination. I doubt it has anything to do with danger.

[treasureddoll]

Why wouldn't you want to know?

[nolessthanseven]

Because, sometimes in life, there are things you just don't want to know about.

[treasureddoll]

How do you know what I want and don't want? Isn't that too general an assumption?