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[bright_burning]

Charlie and Bev are both gone when she wakes up, curled into a hotel bed, hands half-healed and the sensation of just having had her head run through a blender reduced to a dull ache. Damn that fucking room

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[_to_the_bone]

It's ages later that the phone rings.

Andrei's on the other end. Answer, Serafine!

[bright_burning]

It wakes her. For a disoriented minute she can't figure out what's making that noise, but when she does, she mumbles curses and drags herself into the kitchen.

It's almost gone to her answering machine before she picks up, yawning and squinting at the clock.

"'lo?"

[_to_the_bone]

"I have pie."

There's a pause.

"It's Andrei. I have wine as well. Rapunzel, Rapunzel."

[bright_burning]

She is so confused.

"What...Andrei, what on earth are you talking about?"