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[glitterateur]

[There's a little girl grinning at the camera when the feed clicks on, waving enthusiastically. Her face and hands are covered in three different kinds of glitter, but luckily her adorable sweatshirt (it has giraffes on it) has miraculously managed to stay clean.]

Greetings, fellow heroes! My name's Mabel. I don't have a codename yet but I'm working on it! Along with-- [She reaches off screen to pull out a square of fabric covered in stickers and glitter.] --this! It's gonna be my cape when it's done.

Anyway, since I'm new to being a hero, I'm open to any advice my more experienced superfriends may have! Whether it's about capes or masks or where the craft store is. Especially that last part, since I'm almost out of stickers.

--and if anybody in house eighteen sees some pigs in the kitchen, don't worry. Those are the Waddles Juniors and they're with me. If they're down there they're just hungry.

Comments

[thanatophobias]

I don't know.

... Sometimes they don't know they're dead.

[glitterateur]

Really? Awkwaaard.

[thanatophobias]

[ashdgsfd. Well, that's a first. He doesn't even know what to say now.]

... I guess.

[glitterateur]

But then you get to lead them into the light! You're like a counselor, and all the awkward ghosts are your campers.

[thanatophobias]

[That definitely does it.]

You think so?

[... he never thought of it that way.]

[glitterateur]

Yep! It's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it!

[thanatophobias]

[well, okay.]

What did you do before?

[glitterateur]

Before? Like, before I came here?

[thanatophobias]

Uh-huh.

[glitterateur]

Oh! I was on summer vacation with my brother. We're staying with my Uncle Stan in Oregon. That's where we started seeing all the weird stuff like ghosts and lake monsters and robots.

[thanatophobias]

In Oregon?

[a pause.]

I'm from Philadelphia.

[glitterateur]

Yeah! We're actually from California.

[Mabel tries and fails to remember anything she ever learned about Philadelphia.]

Oh, cool! That's near New York, right? Do you like it there?

[thanatophobias]

I like it better here. [a beat-] But I miss my mom.

[glitterateur]

Oh.

--maybe she'll come here! Then you guys can stay here ooor go somewhere better together.