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[splitthebaby]

[There's nothing suspicious here. Nothing at all. Well, except for the moe faced mechanical doll and the carpenter working hard on the side of a garage. The garage at 1125 Taylor, as a matter of fact.

Sitting on a chair watching is Merem. With him are quite a few rats and a few birds. Also, surprisingly, both of his arms are gone....]

Did Ciel really say that? That's rather embarrassing, I'd imagine.

What was that...?

[One of the rats chitters and then they all start rolling around, one flopping right off the chair. Merem ends up laughing along with them.]

A good king likes to help out but...heh. He can't help his appearance. I think they call that Plumber's Disease, by the way.

No, no, don't keep making fun of him. You'll hurt his pride. And Lady Windup doesn't exactly have a sense of humor. She'll take what you say literally so be careful.

Though did you hear? The Rat King has been hanging around with girls lately. I wonder if he's taken a liking to them. He might end up being more human than me before it all ends.

[He tilts his head as another rat speaks up.]

Well, he is more properly behaved and groomed than you. Of course he'll get free food. What? You think that's all it is? Hm....

Instead of pondering that, how about you get back to work. I'll have something special for you once it's all over.

[All the animals bound down from the chair and start to help out, carrying tools here and there and keeping things level. Thankfully, the creepy one sided conversation is over but it's like he's really Snow White.]

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son why

[ex_seventh238]

[can she just pretend she's not here
]

[splitthebaby]

[no]

Why don't you pull up a chair and take a seat, Ciel?

[ex_seventh238]

[flatly] I have other things to do.

[...]

Is this your idea of inconspicuous, Merem? [because she is not impressed, :|]

[splitthebaby]

You can take a few minutes to sit down.

And when they're done, it won't seem as fantastic.

[ex_seventh238]

I'm fine. [Arms crossed against her chest and linefaces harder]

Did you even come to possession of legitimate plans, or are you relying on animals to also be your architects? [the last time you tried doing something artistic ended in complete failure. Drawing plans to construct something isn't unrelated to all that creativity embodies. ...Is she going to bitterly, bitterly regret this.]

[adropofjupiter]

[Guess who just got home with a paper bag in her arms? That would be this witch. She stares at the construction for a while before making her way around it to head inside. Someone has some things that need refrigerated... or safely stored.]

[splitthebaby]

[Have fun. All the cheese is going to be gone by the end of the day.]

[adropofjupiter]

[She bought the cheese SPECIFICALLY for rodent royalty. She likes the Rat King and thinks he's cute.]

[splitthebaby]

[Since he's a good king, they all share YOU SEE]

[adropofjupiter]

[Like Marisa's going to complain about that. She's perfectly fine with that since the Rat King is cute, adorable and not an asshole like Merem. So she'll continue to occasionally buy him cheese.]

You're even bugging the neighbors, Merem

[answerer_sword]

[Bazett had seen plenty of odd things in Mayfield. However, this is the oddest thing so far that she has seen in the vicinity of her house. An armless child is sitting outside Ciel's garage while two strange beings are redecorating said garage. Against her better judgement, she steps over to try to get a better look.]

[splitthebaby]

[He peers over his shoulder.]

Something wrong?

[answerer_sword]

...Who are you and what are you doing with Ciel's garage?

[She looks down at his arms.]

And what happened to your arms?

[splitthebaby]

My name is Merem Solomon and I'm making a place for me to sleep. As for my arms, they're over there working.

[answerer_sword]

Do you not have your own room?

[Ciel seemed to be a perfectly nice and reasonable woman. She wonders why Ciel would drive her new housemate into the garage.]

Your arms?

[She had heard of Dead Apostles using familiars to regenerate their bodies, but she had never seen any familiars like these before.]

Are you...some sort of Dead Apostle?

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[gandere]

[ Just going to walk on by as though this were an every day occurrence.

Wait a second.

Just going to walk on backwards to stop and stare at him. ]

Hey!

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[splitthebaby]

Greetings.

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[gandere]

What are you doing?

[ Here? Back? In general? ]

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[splitthebaby]

What does it look like I happen to be doing?

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[gandere]

[ It looks like he's acting like a Disney princess. That's what. ]

Something to piss someone off probably. More importantly, when did you get back?

[tsukihime]

[Arcueid watched that conversation with somewhat of a bored expression. She's really just wondering what the hell he's doing, but asking Merem anything directly has usually proven to end in pure stupid.]

You are so weird.

[splitthebaby]

Only for you, Princess.

[tsukihime]

I didn't know you liked big projects.

[Going to do her best not to fall for any conversation bait. HER MIND IS STEELED. Well, she THINKS she can be clever enough to figure out what Merem's doing without directly asking.

The way he talks to people seems kind of fun to try sometimes okay? Shut up.]

[splitthebaby]

I'm just making a home away from home, that's all.

[tsukihime]

[Don't laugh. Don't laugh.]

You're...building a house...at Ciel's house?