👑This daddy's a hoot!👑

I ended up just telling the guards to throw him out and revoked his travel permit. Assuming he wasn't intercepted and put in the ground by my husband, he'll be flying home on the next transport with his tail between his legs.

📖 I take it one was especially annoying?

Someone put a blanket over my cage.

There's nothing wrong with wanting some of the conveniences and comforts of your old life, my dear. If you're worried about offending them, why not give them something else to target as a reward? At that point it's a heist, and those can turn a profit that they'd surely be tempted by. You know the layout, the security, nobody better to give them all the information they'd need. And if they grab some of your little comforts while they're there, well, wouldn't that be nice?

📖 Oh my friend, you are supposed to be talking me out of this, hoo! This is just why I haven't mentioned it to the others, I was worried they would be excited by the idea! Of course, that got me thinking that I shouldn't tell them and try it, myself. Which is a terrible idea!!

Glint

In my experience, if you act confident and slightly annoyed, people rarely question you. Especially if they've been trained for subservience their whole lives.

📖 But I keep trying to remind myself that it likely isn't worth the risk of the trouble it could bring. I've been surviving off of charity, am I to throw it in their faces? Oh, the indecision is maddening...!

OH NOOOOOO that's so cute. I can't imagine how you must have sobbed when she said "shrews" for the first time. I'd need to lay down for the rest of the week to recover from that.

I was absolutely inconsolable, yes, hah. It took such strength to not break down in front of her about it! Oh Via was such an articulate little thing, I feel sometimes I barely got to have those little moments. Though I suppose that's just what happens when speech is part of young education.

Hangenburngers...... oh that's so cute, was that something your girl used to say when she was little?

It was indeed. Another favorite is she used to pronounce "shrews" like "shoes." Even if it was just one, she wanted a shoes.

But one must persevere. As bitter a loss as it is, there are many more wonderful things awaiting. And we shall carry the little things, and remind them constantly of how they once said "hamburgers" like "hangenburngers" and watch them roll their eyes in frustration, hoohoo