[audio]

[70ftandcounting]

Is...is it over?

[A soft, quiet noise. Not a whimper, not a cry - but maybe the tiniest of sniffles]

Is he gone?

[Bartimaeus was RIGHT.]

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[Audio]

[lightyourway]

You saw it too?

Heh, I didn't know Santa was an octopus.

[70ftandcounting]

I-I did.

[what. to think. she doesn't know.]

A what...?

[lightyourway]

An octopus.

They live in the ocean. They have eight legs.

[70ftandcounting]

I've...never seen the ocean before.