maybe i'm the flower painted on the wall;

[recrypt]

MAYBE WE WON'T FORGET THIS TIME AAAAAAAAAAAAA

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[recrypt]

Oh, so anyone who tries it is now an unwitting test subject.

[ nice. but for all the mess in the kitchen some of which might it might not be hers and their current talk, the batter in the mixing bowl she's using looks like perfectly normal batter for chocolate cake. ]

[successives]

That just means you have to make sure it's not poisonous.

[She's joking, probably.]

[recrypt]

No one dropped dead of poison the last time I left one of these out, so I think we're safe there.

[ but, in a completely even tone: ]

Could you grab the hemlock out of the cupboard for me, please?

[successives]

[A small huff of a laugh.]

Sure. I'll get right on that. Very Snow White of you.

[recrypt]

Huh, is that the specific poison that was used? I was aiming for something well known, but would sound like a regular herb to anyone who didn't.

[ though, no one puts herbs into chocolate cake anyway, so they should have known she was messing with them.

curiously, as she goes to pull out a pan from the drawer, she takes the bowl with her. ]

[successives]

I meant more in terms of the poisoned food itself, but it does have kind of a fairy tale sound to its name.

[She just watches her go, tilting her head.]

[recrypt]

[ none trust that the kitchen won't pull some sort of weeping angels nonsense and dump stuff that shouldn't belong in cake into the cake when she's not looking.

she hums, just a little, while prepping the pan and greasing it up.]

I'm not particularly familiar with the intricacies of fairy tales, so I'll just take your word for it.

[successives]

All you need to know is that they're usually horrifying.

[recrypt]

Good to know.

[ beat ]

Aren't a good third of the things on those lists from fairy tales?

[successives]

Yeah. But, haven't you heard? All of these powers are for our own good and they definitely didn't hand them out so anyone could hurt each other.

[She rolls her eyes.]

[recrypt]

I take it you've heard from some people who do have dangerous powers? Enough to establish it as a trend, anyway.

[ and you know, not like, the one off weird 'haha wow, can you believe i have the power to (throws dart) electrocute someone to death?' power or something.

this is all being talked about as she's pouring batter into the pan, it's fine. ]

[successives]

I sure haven't heard about one that was supposed to help somebody, I'll say that much.

[She sighs.]

[recrypt]

Hmmm. For a place that keeps trying to tell us that murder is completely voluntary, having powers like these doesn't seem ...

[ hmmmm yeah. ]

Well. It's just a little contradictory, don't you think?

[successives]

You're getting the same incredibly shady vibes that I am, right?

[A small sigh.]

Well, I guess we'll see if anything happens soon enough.

[recrypt]

Hehe. Maybe.

It'd be nice if we were all just being paranoid, though.

[ uuuunlikely.

batter's all settled, time to shove this into the oven and wait. ]

... Was it Thursday nights for everyone here?

[successives]

[A small shrug.]

Maybe the universe just really hates weekends.

[recrypt]

And people from Japan, apparently?

[ Why are there so many of them when apparently they're kidnapping from across all of time-space. ]

[successives]

Maybe whoever brought us here had a really bad vacation experience.

[recrypt]

Tragic. Unfortunately it still doesn't do much to sway me in their favor.

[ at least they got a vacation at all, gosh ]

[successives]

Oh, yeah. No question, they suck no matter what the reason for their weird vendetta is.