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[heartbeneathastone]

Marius looks-- well, Marius often looks faintly startled, but he looks particularly so as he steps into Milliways. He is surprised, in the first instance, by Milliways itself, which he did not quite intend to enter; and then by the large tree. This, too, is a dual surprise, both because Christmas trees are not yet the done thing in Paris of 1833, and because it is not yet Christmas in Paris of 1833.

He wanders over to look at the tree with that same faintly befuddled expression, now mingled with a touch of curiosity.

OOM: You made a deal and now it seems you have to offer up

[sunbaked_baker]

(oom: The evidence, the file... Rae could see the pages curling as they burned, the photographs' emulsions sizzling and turning black, but there was no way she could get to them in time. She could hear the fetch shrieking as its spell warped and its form melted within the sealed container on the flame-wreathed desk.)