[Voice/Action]

[exploring_game]

Okay, cousins!

Who's up for hide and seek? I'll be it. Outside the mansion's Out-of-Bounds. Bottom of the main floor staircase is safe base.

1...2...3...4...5...

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[action]

[worldentire]

[Watching idly from the sidelines; calls out as the various children run past.] Don't go on gettin' hurt, now. Play fair.

[action]

[exploring_game]

[peeking between fingers just enough to give a small scowl.]

Nobody's gonna get hurt!

[action]

[worldentire]

Just watchin' out for you, little miss. [tired smile]

Re: [action]

[exploring_game]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we know.

[Action]

[leavingcyphers]

[A little figure makes her way towards to Coraline, her hands holding onto a book of cyphers.]

Can I play?

[Have your half-sister, daughter to one of Lamb's many husbands, but not your father here. Other than her creepy glowing eyes she's a perfectly normal little eight year old who just wants to interact with her family.]

Re: [Action]

[exploring_game]

Sure, Go go go hide!

[shooing cindy off with one hand while she holds her forearm across her eyes.]

[Action]

[leavingcyphers]

Okay!

[She runs around a bit before finding the air-vent from earlier that had an item for her to climb on to reach it, an item that luckily still sits there. And so she climbs in and settles in the shadows trying not to giggle to give herself away... shame the yellow blobs of light in the shadows don't help.]

[Action]

[exploring_game]

[She's played this game with little Cindy on one too many family get-together, enough to know that Cindy will ALWAYS be in the air vents, although she's much more fun to play with at leave-a-clue puzzle games.

Still, she pretends to take her time in looking, peeking underneath the skirts of tables and behind winged armchairs]

[Action]

[other_father]

Play safe, kiddo. If you need anything I'll be right over here.

[He ruffles her hair affectionately as she counts, heading off to sit and watch them play.]

[Action]

[exploring_game]

Don't be embarrassing, dad.

[Action]

[other_father]

[He smiles and shouts over.]

Just looking out for you, kiddo! Your mother would have my head if she knew I hadn't been doing my job.

[He gives a side glance to Sofia, sees how she is and looks back again.]

o-hoo...

[Action]

[exploring_game]

[Sotto whispers]

Did you leave her and Uncle Augustus in the same room again? You know what'll happen, Dad.

[ACTION]

[echo_of_utopia]

[Why yes, your dear mother is here too.

...although she is glaring at Sinclair who is standing a good distance away from her rather than paying attention to her daughter.]

[ACTION]

[exploring_game]

[Fine with her.]

6...7...8...

[ACTION]

[echo_of_utopia]

[Aaaand here she remembers that Coraline exists and that she really should not be seeing her mother like this. So she stops frowning at Sinclair and gives her daughter a smile... assuming she's currently looking, at least.

...Lamb is still frowning ~inside~ because of the fact that Coraline is wasting her time like this instead of reading the educational books Lamb lovingly suggested to her, but hey, what you don't know won't hurt you... until later when she decides to have a talk with you about it.]

Re: [ACTION]

[exploring_game]

[Oh no, not the lectures.]

[action]

[utopiansister]

[Eleanor's wearing a fairly simple white dress today instead of her diving suit, and she's dry, too. Wow. Instead of joining the game, though, she's more than happy just watching it as a spectator. You girls are too cuuute~]

[action]

[exploring_game]

[She gives a small wave to Eleanor, but continues on her away without cheating and making hopeful eye contact for hints]