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[silver_flecks]

Delirium of the Endless is playing.

With a bouncy ball. The sort you get in an egg, except this one's from a real egg.

She feels badly she stole it from its mother, but she wanted it and its shiny and the colour of papayas in the sun.

Bounce bounce bounce.

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[lordpeter]

Peter watches the ball.

Up, down. Up, down. Gravity, in Peter's increasingly disjointed world, seems to be holding steady.

He toys with the bits of shell left from the ball's hatching. The urge to kiss Delirium is almost unbearable.

[silver_flecks]

"HELlO pReTtY pEtEr PuMpKiN MaN. WoUlD yOu liKE aN aPpLe?"

[lordpeter]

"No, thank you," Peter says politely, "I'm not in the mood to turn red today."

He's not normally this weird. Delerium brings it out in him.

"Apple in French is Pomme."

[silver_flecks]

"PoMmE In EnGlIsH is DaNcEr." Not really.

She lied.

She does that.

[xan_shaped]

Xander spots Del and flails just a little bit. He doesn't know about a certain Joker, or perhaps he'd feel less bad about the whole Mouse incident.

Okay, okay, just go over there and say hi ... and then apologize ... and if necessary, run like hell.

"Hey! Del! Um, fancy ... running into you ... from across the room ..."

[silver_flecks]

She beams. "Hi, XaNdEr. YoUr nAmE is XaNdEr. AnD i ReMeMbeREd wiTh My HeaD. Or MaYbe My KidNeY. SomEthInG. Do I haVe A kIdNeY?" She ponders this seriously.

[xan_shaped]

Xander grins nervously.

"Yes. Yes it is. And, uh ... I don't know. But, um, I guess I don't know for sure if I have a kidney, so we're even." Pause. "How you doin'?"

[silver_flecks]

"...I cOuLD lOoK?" she offers, then, "PuRplE. Or BluE. GrEeN. SomEtHiNG. OnE oF thOsE. YoU?"