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Today was one long string of busts from a little before sunrise to just before the close of the financial markets, then a breather, then two more busts. Ray would say October is starting early except that October already started early, given some of the seismic readings coming out of the Pacific and the number of tourists in Caribbean hotels reporting nightmares and worse. It's really not Ray's day and won't be for some time.

Especially since the last bust was in Chinatown and left a more lingering residue than he would have liked.

"[[Bar, if you would please be so kind, give me anything you can think of that'll distract me from the fact I currently appear to be unable to speak anything but Cantonese,]]" he says. "[[Thank you.]]"

[tinytag: Alyx Vance]

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"That might be useful for swimmers." Suzi allows, "But I'm not a swimmer. It'd be weird. For everyone. Why are you speaking some other language?"

"[[We had a Class Seven phantasm cutting loose outside the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory store today,]]" Ray says ruefully. "[[The ghost managed to get off an effect of some kind that briefly scrambled my linguistic cortex. Egon says the lingering energies should disperse in a day or so and I'll be back to normal once that happens.]]"

"Ick." Suzi says, "Can you get a translaty-thingy from the Bar to take home?"

"[[Possibly, but Egon's going to want to study this one until it passes,]]" Ray says. "[[I'm going to let this peter out. And maybe spend some time freaking out my sword instructor, since he knows I normally only have enough Chinese to verify whether or not people are certain they want their uncle's ghost removed from the bathroom.]]"

"Your life is so weird." Suzi says fondly, "Has anything happened in the last couple of months that I should know about?"

"[[The Great Lemurian Empire made contact- that's the octopus people- and I adopted another daughter. This one's an alien named Jhalak, from a species where five separate organisms grow into one and operate as a single entity with five brains,]]" Ray says after some thought. "[[Looks a little like a very complicated starfish.]]"

"Wow." Suzi says, considering this for a while, "Congratulations on the new daughter, though. I wonder how she'd zlin."

"[[She's at home at the moment, very briefly,]]" Ray says. "[[The next time I bring her into Bar I'll introduce the two of you.]]"

"I'd like that!" Suzi beams at him, "Anything I should know about her?"

"[[She likes fruit,]]" Ray says instantly. "[[Especially kiwifruit. She'll play with hair, but she won't bite you, and she knows what 'please stop that' means. And she loves to learn new things.]]"

"Okay!" Suzi says, "Is there any fruit she can't have? Strawberries are poison to Sime, it's why I ask."

"[[So far every Earth fruit I've given her's been all right,]]" Ray says. "[[And some of the leafy vegetables, too.]]"

"I'll see how she feels about some of the ones from my time." Suzi says, "Baselines can eat them just fine."

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