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[flicker_flash]

[Katie thought she might give it a day. Maybe they were just playing a trick, and they'd come back and be all 'surprise!' and then Katie would sulk until they felt bad and brought her icecream or something. Such was as her imagination went. Their scents were still everywhere even if their things were gone; they couldn't have both gone home at once

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[Voice]

[noprevaricating]

...Kitten?

[Voice]

[flicker_flash]

...hello, Archie.

Are you feeling better?

[Voice]

[noprevaricating]

...Who are Sigmund and Edward? [And are they real people?]

[Voice]

[flicker_flash]

[...] Um.

They're pirates. I look after them.

[markofthebrave]

...fighting dragons, huh?

[flicker_flash]

[And she knows you best out of everyone left because Brook has gone and and and---

--face crumple?] Katara?

[markofthebrave]

[...yeah, she was afraid of that.

Bastard.

Yes, at the moment, she is irrationally angry at Sigmund for leaving.]

I'm coming.

[And she'll just be on her way, then.]

[flicker_flash]

[Katie will just waiting for the sounds of someone at the door so she can barrel out and hug them, then.]

[thestormishere]

[ Dragons...? Considering recent events, Lightning's interest is pinged, but...

No, that's not right. She backs up mentally, focusing on the message as a whole, frowning as she takes it in. They haven't really interacted directly much or anything, but... this is the girl who stayed with Sigmund, right? She was Lightning's 'niece' during that experiment a while back. ]

Were they taken... or did they go home?

[flicker_flash]

[She vaguely recalls Lightning herself. And for that reason, struggles to find a way of getting the point across. Maybe she'll be lucky and Sigmund will have warned her about Katie already.]

...no, they went to fight dragons. But they'll be gone a long time. They packed everything.

[thestormishere]

[ Lightning has a fair idea about Katie- not complete by any means, but... anyway. "Packed everything," huh? ]

I see.

[ She sighs, quietly, trying to think. She'd never talked to Edward, but as for Sigmund-- well, he wasn't really someone she would have called a friend... but he had tried to help her and Hope, even though he didn't have to. He'd even offered help before that, when she'd gotten Baldr and... maybe if there had just been more time or...

Nothing to be done about it now, though. ]

... Do you have somewhere to go? Until they... come back?

[flicker_flash]

Oh...

I have plenty of places. I was thinking of staying with a troll and a moon princess first, though. [She's uncertain, because she's pretty sure she can't just stay with Katara and Sokka forever. And really, maybe she should just stay in the house until they come back.]