#remaux1

Four months of social media and news to catch up on. Could it have killed Uncle Leith to leave the sat on at least so she could keep up on tv?

“I see you’re enjoying having your phone back.” A familiar voice interrupted Eva’s mindless stream. 

“Oh... hey Jules.” She couldn’t help but smirk at her little cousin. It was still weird this lazy ass kid was actually working for the family now, “They sent you to be my security detail? Really?” 

“You going to the fashion show too?” Eva asked genuinely curious if he’d been roped into representing the family there as well. 

“Oh no, fuck that.” He laughed nervously. Yeah probably something like that would be a bit much for him. 

“Maybe you’ll meet somebody.” She pressed, only half joking. In recent years Estra had mused to her that all it’d probably take is one pretty girl looking at him right to break his innocence. 

“A society girl? No thanks. I will attempt to be more outgoing on this trip though. I promise. Had some practice thanks to work.” 

“You better, you know I don’t like cartoons.” Eve groaned remembering weekends at Uncle Frey’s when a teenage Julian had command over the main tv. 

“What if they’re adult cartoons?” 

“Well look at it this way,” Julian put his arm around her reassuringly, “at least you’re not going to be alone this time.” 

“Small consolation cousin.” Eve grumbled dismissively, though she did have admit to herself that it was some comfort to know she’d have someone. Esther had been around back at the house in DSV but she had a her own things going on. She also was better in small doses and could get obnoxious quickly, at least Jules was quiet and predictable.

“And hey, they did give us a rather generous spending limit so we can punish their pockets for it.”

“Heh, I do like the sound of that.” Eva smiled as she suddenly remembered the joys of shopping on her mother’s dime, “You ever been to Simovia Jules?”

“Nope.” 

“Me either. Guess we’ll have to take in all the sights.” 

“What? Why would they do that?” Evangeline felt a cotton ball form in her throat. Her mother had spoken of only new beginnings and how good it would be to get away. There was no mention of ulterior motives. It was just like her family to play games with the truth though.

“They told you about the fire right?” Julian mumbled, “That it wasn’t an accident?” 

“Yeah sort of but what does -” He cut her off before she could query more, her guess was that her cousin didn’t want to say too much in such an open public space. 

“That’s just kind of the tip of what’s going on.” He continued, “Anyway since we’re legally the primary heirs to all of that Yager shit I guess they want to put us a little out of reach.” 

“Speaking of horrendous things, what the fuck are you wearing?” Her mom asked as she went in for a hearty embrace. In her excitement Eva had almost forgotten that she had raided the spare closet in the guest room. 

“Oh... I found a bunch of Sofi’s old dresses, you think she’s going to be mad?” Suddenly she felt extra self-conscious about the whole thing. Perhaps it was wrong of her to do so but without access to her phone or a computer it was easy to get bored sitting around the house. “I swear I’m being careful.” 

“Eva! My love where are you?” 

Evangeline jumped. The sound of her mother’s voice echoed through the largely empty house like a clear bell in one of those religious houses the humans loved so well. While it had only been a week or two since she last saw her, the days in this dwelling had become quite the drag. 

“I’m coming, I swear mama you better have some news.” Before the words left her lips she realized that perhaps not all news would be welcome. It wasn’t long after she had been penned in that she had heard about Fin’s mother. Bad business that. Cara Madsen Rask had always treated her with a great deal of kindness. That being said, finding out that she would no longer be married to her son would be quite the treat. It may even mean a return to freedom, “I’ve about had it with this gilded cage, why does Uncle Leith have such a gaudy house?”