It's that time of year again....

[thrice_gifted]

Gabrielle knows that her sisters are a little...tense, at the moment, plus it's been cold for so long, so she's decided to do something to cheer everyone up and make cookies

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[milly_the_fox]

Mildmay hadn't really moved from his room after that awful night when he collapsed, being reluctant to encounter Phedre after whatever it was that made him tell her all those things either, but he's also not eaten, and he has to do that eventually. When he gets to the kitchen he picks up a cookie to eat while he looks around

[milly_the_fox]

"You ain't like regular hocuses, are you?" At least he doesn't seem afraid of Felix anymore. It's hard to be afraid of a guy who reminds you of yourself.

[skewedeyes]

"What do you mean," kind of anxious again, but yeah, the lack of fear is something.

[milly_the_fox]

"I seen witchhunts, and all the hocuses I ever heard of ain't very nice." To put it mildly. But Felix hasn't done anything to hurt him yet or even yelled at him except when he first walked in. Which reminds him... "How'd you know my name?"

[skewedeyes]

"Hocuses aren't," he says, before he thinks better of it, then bites it off and hesitates. That's...hard to explain.

"Um."

[milly_the_fox]

The boy flinches at the correction so like Keepers, and ducks his head a little. He can't help it. After a minute he peeks up at Felix to see if he's going to answer.

[skewedeyes]

He actually meant it as agreement. Hocuses aren't very nice.

A pause, and he kind of shakes his head, minutely. "I just do."

[milly_the_fox]

He frowns a little, and because the hocus hasn't done anything to him yet dares to argue a little. "That ain't an answer."

[skewedeyes]

"It's the only answer I can offer," honestly, and this is so weird.

[milly_the_fox]

"Somebody tell you?" He figures it's probably someone really dangerous for a hocus to be too scared to talk about it, and eventually that leads back to Keeper.

[skewedeyes]

"No...no," He says, more firmly, and almost wants to say that Kolkhis won't touch him now, half opens his mouth, and closes it. "It's - it wouldn't make any sense."

[milly_the_fox]

He looks skeptical. "Some kind of hocus magic thing?"

[skewedeyes]

He seizes on that, probably obviously relieved. "Something like that."

[milly_the_fox]

Mildmay frowns at the relief, still not quite believing him.

[skewedeyes]

Felix fidgets a little, nervously, not quite looking straight at Mildmay.

[milly_the_fox]

Mildmay's just staring at him still. The look probably isn't entirely unknown to Felix.