[ open ] i just want a good night

[princessvegas]

Who: Julie Lawry
When: early July-ish
Where: Horizon, Cadens
What: resurrection. and also croissants.
Warnings: language, others marked

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[nomnoms]

[ Horizon!Baby seems very tolerant of and very used to this sort of handling (almost as though he was made to be squeezed). Nanaue nods enthusiastically when she gives an affirmative, and doesn't seem in any hurry to take his odd little creature back just yet. ]

EHHH... [ Did he want a pet? He shakes his head. ]

BABY NO PET. ZEEEEMER GIVE BABY!

[ And, just in case Julie doesn't know who ZEEMER is, he produces an ugly little statuette out of nowhere, placing it between them. It vaguely resembles the seal god. She can even keep it! ]

[princessvegas]

Zeemer?

[ Julie is unfamiliar with most gods. The ones she knows off the top of her head are primarily the ones who have had direct impact on the entire Summoned population (plus one that Jaskier maybe had sex with). Even after supposedly living centuries amongst them, she can't identify most of them.

The statue rises in the air, held aloft by her phantom hand, and she brings it closer to squint at it. There's no recognition that crosses her face, but she accepts this without question. Asking Nanaue for further details is a crapshoot anyway. ]

So it's Zeemer's baby? Wait, Nanaue... is there a Baby in the outside world too?

[nomnoms]

[ Nanaue offers no more explanation for Xeimar, under the assumption that his little totem did all the explaining for him. He chortles a little at the way it floats in the air, despite having seen magic so often in this year that he's been in Abraxas, it never seems to fail to amuse him. ]

BABY LIVE OUTSIDE! [ He nods, then corrects himself, just in case she thinks he is some monster that would make Baby sleep outside: ] LIVE IN HOUSE. ME, BABY, DUMB DOG.

[ Dog is soooo dumb. Nanaue had been surprised Dog was still there after they came up out of the underground!

Nanaue looks around for Julie's usual pets, then asks: ]

YOU LIVE FRIENDS OUTSIDE?

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[ This is also the first time she is ever hearing of Nanaue owning a dog. Again, she is surprised that he would keep a pet rather than eat it — she can see why he would not eat a gift directly from a blobby god. Even Nanaue, bless his soul, has more sense than that. But a dog, just a regular dog?

Well, she's proud of him.

Her pets are around somewhere, but even they rarely venture with her into this part of her domain. This place triggers something in most people and creatures, a sense of uneasiness and danger carried in the stale air and the gut-clenching feeling of being alone. Julie alone had been the one to tolerate it until now, out of toxic familiarity and brokenness; Nanaue sitting here with her, now, is the longest anyone else has ever stayed. ]

No. [ She shakes her head slightly, gently petting Baby's soft back. ] They were all made here. Duke was a Christmas present to me. Rex and Villentrentenmerth came to life from statues when I touched 'em. I'd bring 'em out if I could.

[ Unfortunately, that simply does not seem to be in the cards. She's been trying to take things back into the outside world for three years now, and gotten nowhere.

But she does turn her eyes back to Nanaue with a small smile, visibly brightening just a little bit. ] But outside, I have other pets. Kajal is a moth kit, a little bunny with wings. My friend Nadine has one too, Pianko, they live in the same cage. And I have a horse, a real big one, his name is Baron. I took him from Thorne a long, long time ago.