#strangetown

The round started off as any other for Loki, working away at his robotics table. It's his dream to create the worlds first AI servant, experiments have always been more Circe's thing.

He doesn't get too far into it before he hears his wife calling from the kitchen. With a tone in her voice that sounds, different from usual.

Circe: 'Loki?'

Loki: 'Yes, darling?'

Circe: 'Come here, now.'

He rushes to the other side of the house, seeing her sat at the dining table with an unlikely calmness to her aura. Dare he even say, excitement?

Circe: 'I'm pregnant.'

Loki: 'This is good news, yes?'

Circe: 'Yes. It'll be nice to have an heir to continue our work. But, I have a proposition.'

Loki: 'Of course, darling. Anything.'

Circe: 'A boy and a girl would be ideal, correct?'

Loki: 'I would say it would be beneficial to have one of each.'

Circe: 'There's only one baby, and my time is too precious to waste on a second pregnancy.'

Loki: 'So, what do you suggest?'

Circe: 'I want to genetically engineer twins-'

Loki was a bit taken aback at first, it was no doubt that Circe was always the one who enjoyed experiments. But on their own children? He didn't know how to respond - but luckily Circe had a plan.

Circe: '-We'll test it on Nervous first, of course. If it works on him, it'll work on me. What do you say?'

random assortment of drawings, Vidcund/Lazlo edition

...where "unplanned" is the secret word of the day:

Cassandra said nothing. She wasn’t interested in semantics. “Shall we move on to what we came here for? I can step out if you’d prefer privacy.” Upon her words, Vidcund’s hand found its way into hers, gripping it firmly now—and pulling it below the table. Circe stiffened slightly. Her mouth pressed to a thin line again before answering. “Oh, I see why she’s really here.” Her gaze lasered on Cassandra. “You’re fucking him, aren’t you?” Loki and Vidcund glanced at each other, both trying to read the situation unfolding between the two women. Circe folded her arms defiantly across her chest and leaned back in her chair. Loki leaned forward and spoke to her in a hushed tone, “Honey, I don’t know if that’s truly anyone’s business but theirs.” She met Circe’s calculating stare with her own keen scrutiny. She scanned the woman’s face, examining each microexpression from the small arching lift of an eyebrow to the little crease forming at the side of her mouth with a scowl.  Cassandra placed her free arm on the table, leaned an elbow on the surface and asked pointedly, “Are you really even pregnant?” 

Rated E. Link also here if you missed the one up top.

Olive: 'How much is there?'

Dina: '50.'

Olive: 'Hm-'

Dina: 'I'm sorry, I did have more but. I, uh- I had to do something.'

Olive: 'Fine. It'll do. Take a seat.'

Olive: 'I assume you want me to bring someone back for you, correct?'

Dina: 'Y-yes, ma'am. My husband. Have you, um, done this before?'

Olive: 'Never. I'm usually there when they go the other way.'

Dina: 'Why are you doing this for me? I'm grateful but-'

Olive: 'I sympathise. My dearest Ichabod was my heart and soul, I'd do anything to get him back too.'

Dina: 'Why can't you? If you can bring Michael back why can't-'

Olive: '-My relationship with death is, complicated. It started with his infatuation with me, and my eventual pining for him back. It wasn't until I met Ichabod I realised love can exist on earth and in life. I suppose death knew that, so my husband was just another life to take to get to me.'

Dina: 'I'm sorry. It's lonely, being trapped in grief and having the whole town paint an image of you without knowing your pain.'

Olive: 'You know the feeling?'

Dina: 'All too well.'

Her love affair with death had caught so many lives in the cross fire. She couldn't take back what she had done, but she could make at least one persons life better. Would that really be enough to pay her dues?

Olive: 'So, you're the one who called?'

???: 'Yes, ma'am.'

Olive: 'Well, what's your name.'

???: 'S-sorry. My name's Dina. Dina Bachelor.'

Jenny: 'So all you kids are getting a place together at college? How sweet! I hope that doesn't push back my plans on getting grandchildren soon!'

Johnny: 'What?'

Phi walked out that front door and didn't look back.

Johnny was perfect. Kind, compassionate, totally besotted by her. Ophelia couldn't wait to spend forever with him.

He even picked up a new friend in Lilith Pleasant, who also wanted to go to LFT! The pair arranged to meet her and Ripp downtown one evening, if they got on well enough maybe they could even all get a place together at college!

Lilith and Johnny are triple bolters :/// but her and Phi quickly became best friends and are always rolling wants about each other. Hopefully neither of them act on that chemistry in the future. (lmao at Ripp thinking of Lilith's sister, such a romance sim)