The Haunted House: Be Our Guest

[aldersprig]

First: A story featuring a male keeper and a female Kept.
Previous: The Tour

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Mélanie was doing her best - with only moderate success - to not look too nervous or act too worried as Jasper led her into the next room.

The dining room was quite nice, beautiful in a way that looked like it probably belonged to the rest of the house, with well-polished furniture and not a speck of dust anywhere in sight.  Two chairs pushed out from the table as they walked by, and the china cabinet’s doors popped open.

“Oh!”  Mélanie couldn’t help a little gasp.  “That’s-” she took the hint and, as soon as Jasper sat down, did the same herself.

read on…

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

Try the grey stuff, it's delicious!

[aldersprig]

Don’t believe me, ask the dishes!

[sauergeek]

OK, that house is spooky. Fortunately it seems to like the both of them — and Jasper's comment about the house not hurting guests it dislikes is reassuring — but I'm really curious about the intelligence behind it, particularly the motives of that intelligence.

Mélanie seems to be taking this remarkably well, given the circumstance. How much of this is the Kept bond, how much of this is the goodwill from Jasper and his peculiar house, and how much of this is her independent of all that? (Hard to tell at the moment; perhaps we'll see more later.)

[aldersprig]

Some of this is Mélanie refusing to do what she did earlier when she freaked out.

And it’s a nice house! It makes tea!