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[stilljustandrew]

He isn't going to keep carrying around Baby's inert mobile forever. That'd just be morbid.

But he tried keeping it in his room upstairs, and that's worse somehow. It looks like a toy, sitting there. Like nothing that was ever really important.

So he's bringing it downstairs to try to find somewhere better to keep it. Maybe a shrine over the bar, like the memorial for Bernard and Tonks, if Bar herself wouldn't find that too painful. Or maybe in the Security office, in a storage closet there or something, so that if Baby ever -- if she ever does come back --



Right now Andrew's sitting by the fireplace, watching the fish swim in and out of the flames, with a mug of Irish coffee in his hand and a little metallic arachnoid in his lap.

Botherable.

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[2020sight]

". . . She could go back to something like normal," he agrees slowly.

"Souls that leave and return to their home don't usually come back unchanged."

[hadyougoing]

Oh, dude, Baby's going to come back wrong.


This idea strikes her as the coolest thing ever!


... She realizes Andrew probably doesn't share her enthusiasm, so she turns ooh! into a wince.

"Ew."

[stilljustandrew]

came back wrong

He straightens his shoulders. Weirdly, the gesture makes him feel more vulnerable.

"I'll risk it," he says, quietly. "Thank you."

[2020sight]

He shrugs.

"Sometimes it works out. I mean, Theseus just lost part of his thighs. Lemme know what you figure out, all right?"

[stilljustandrew]

"Thank you," he repeats. "I will."