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The brandy cup kept refilling.  The piles of “loot” seemed never-ending, almost as if the house was bringing more in from somewhere else. And every box and pile needed careful sorting. Mélanie had several boxes full of things and had come up with several more categories - including “sex toys” and “things to tie people up with, ack” - by the time she thought to look out the window again.

The moon was up; the sun was down.  Mélanie swallowed.

“House? House, have you been trying to distract me?”  That would explain why there kept being more and more boxes.

A trunk thumped down in front of her and opened up.  Silk came whisking out - a dress. A dress worthy of a queen, or at least a Contessa.  

“You are trying to distract me.  Are you worried?”

read on…

Date: 2018-10-07 03:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] thnidu
Love it!


• A dress worthy of a queen, or at least a Countessa.  
> Either English "Countess" or Italian "Contessa" (no U), not this hybrid. Unless it's intentional, of course, in which case Why, please?

Date: 2018-10-07 09:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] kelkyag
The Barefoot Contessa. I have one of her cookbooks, and would not have thought to describe it that way, but ... yeah.

Also, more opinionated house! But also wandering off for at least a bit.

Date: 2018-10-08 07:12 am (UTC)
kelkyag: notched triangle signature mark in light blue on yellow (Default)
From: [personal profile] kelkyag
I had no idea she'd been meme'd. I've seen the text of the former with a cartoon picture of a medicine bottle full of pill-kittens, which was oddly adorable and rather unexpectedly but effectively anthropomorphized neurotransmitters.

Date: 2018-10-08 07:11 pm (UTC)
kelkyag: A cluster of red-blushed yellow apples on a tree (apples)
From: [personal profile] kelkyag
Certainly the context I saw it in was supportive. And oh so adorable.

Date: 2018-10-22 12:13 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sauergeek
...and Mélanie finally twigs that the house is up to something. Good on her. I'm glad she still had the presence of mind to convince it otherwise. Though discovering that the house can strip her is something I'd find rather disconcerting, I suspect even if I was drunk. She takes it with surprising aplomb.

She also manages to pull herself together well enough to get equipped to try to do something about it. Hooray for the house helping there. I'm leery of that axe; sharp things while drunk more often than not end up hurting the wielder more than anyone else. I have no idea how alcohol affects Workings, but I expect the answer is "not well". Hope she can figure things out, or that she or the house has a way of helping purge the alcohol.

Date: 2018-10-27 11:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] clare_dragonfly
Eee! An adventure! I am sad to leave the House, but excited (and nervous) for Mélanie and what she will find...

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