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[ While the small stack of books in front of her have certainly come from Caer Scima's library, Ariadne is in her room within the castle, seated on her bed. Asleep with its nose sticking out from her back, head resting on an open book, is a bandersnatch cub -- rather like a cat, it appears to have decided to 'help' her research. ]

If you could protect something -- say, a building -- from anything, what would you protect it from? I've thought of fire, high winds, earthquakes, mosquitoes, falling trees, and hail so far.

[ In the background, the door to her room appears to open slightly; with the wind, perhaps. ]

I'm an architecture student, back home, and there are a lot of possibilities here.

[ She looks like she's about to say more, but just then a glowing red imp leaps onto her head, screeching and yanking at her hair. The bandersnatch cub jerks awake and Ariadne screams, the locket flipped over so that all that's shown for a moment are the sheets on her bed. It's turned up again a moment later, falling onto the floor and on its side this time, followed by a loud thwack.

The imp falls to the ground, dazed; in the next moment, a thick, leather-bound book with a pawprint on its spine slams into it a second time before the bandersnatch cub races forward and grabs onto the imp's legs, shaking its little head and growling in a way that would be adorable if it weren't trying to maim something. ]

Oh, don't- [ before the locket is closed by the hand reaching for it, there's the sight of broken skin and blood -- sharp little imp teeth had found their mark. ]

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[huge_egomd]

Good idea. Chocolates might send the wrong message. A fruit basket is perfect for every occasion.


Hey, you'll be spying in the showers before you know it. [Let's face it, if House could make himself invisible, that's what he'd do. He'd certainly be tempted at the very least.]

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And you can still send the wrong message with fruit, if you try hard enough.

[ Not that she's suggesting you wear a whipped cream bikini with cherry nipples for Daud -- though if you do, House, she wants a picture. ]

I think I'll pass. No guarantee of who you'll see, and a high probability of slipping and cracking my head open on the floor.

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[huge_egomd]

Wouldn't have to try all that hard actually. [Whipped cream isn't really his thing. Obscenely suggestive handling of a banana however, is entirely possible.

Either way, he has a strict no picture policy so you're out of luck, Ariadne. Though, on second thought, that might actually a bit of good luck for you.]

Good point. If it's the latter, you could find yourself in a really embarrassing situation. If it's the former, you could be psychologically scarred for life.

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[ That depends entirely on what she wants to do with the picture. She is not above blackmail. ]

Or a combination of the two. [ Thanks House, now she's thinking about trolls in the shower. ]

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[huge_egomd]

[Nice try but no cigar...or any other phallic symbol of your choice. In order to blackmail someone, they have to feel embarrassed or in the wrong. House has no shame and he's never wrong.]

That would be disturbing. [He's pretty sure trolls don't even know what a shower is but there are plenty of other odd looking creatures with presumably equally odd looking bits under their skirts.] I suppose that means you'll have to use your superpower for more legitimate purposes, like stealing and getting into clubs when you've forgotten your fake ID.

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[ Alternately, she can just threaten other people with it. ]

Hey, I'm twenty-three. [ Even if she looks twelve. ] Only one of those applies.