event: it came from the dairy aisle

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[At 11:59 PM on Saturday, there's a loud whirring sound in the sky. One of the spaceships wobbles and then crashes dramatically to earth, landing just outside Mayfield near the entrance to the highway

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Mingleminglemingle

[ooeeooahah]

[ Though seeing Ilsa in an angel's robes and wings is a bit laughable, it was the only one she found in her size. ]

[ That's her story and she's sticking to it. ]

[welljustwatchme]

That's hideous. Why is this whole thing so hard? I don't remember it being this hard before colonization.

[ooeeooahah]

Sounds like growing up and moving out of the house, from my experience. Not that I was completely on my own, I still got assistance from family. That what the alliances are like?

[welljustwatchme]

Ouais. That's what my relationship with England is like. Except unless I take responsibility for my own things, no one recognizes me, not even my sister, so I've been trying to do things on my own since the last war. I don't really have alliances with anyone else, I guess. Just Mum and her allies. Was it the same for you when you moved out? Or different?

[ooeeooahah]

Well, my sister and I were given responsibilities early, but not more than what we could handle. Like when we learned to tell time, we were supposed to remind Madame when to take her medicine. So, in high school, I was already arranging for the scholarships and such myself, just getting my parents involved for the things they needed to legally sign off on.

Which explains my first degree being at the culinary academy, before moving to pre-med. On your own, you make choices that you might not be the fastest route to where you want to go.

[welljustwatchme]

[Canada nods understandingly.]

You're very wonderful, you know. I don't know if people tell you that enough, but you should know.

[ooeeooahah]

[ Ilsa hugs her. ] Nah, I'm just a guardian, like the thousands of others around the world.

[welljustwatchme]

[All of the hugs back. All of them. Canada is tactile enough when she's not drunk.]

I don't know what you mean by that, but I think you're wonderful.

[ooeeooahah]

Ah, you know who we are, sort of. Just the ones who help where we can, when we can.

[welljustwatchme]

That should be everybody, though, so it doesn't tell me much.

[ooeeooahah]

[ Ilsa giggles again. ] Someone once called the guardians "house brownies for municipalities", and it's not far off - always there, always helping, never seen. If you see them in action, it's because the kim chee has gotten deep.

[welljustwatchme]

Hm. You're not the sort of house brownies that make fun and pull on your apron strings if you're not actually all that good at homemaking, though, right?

[Canada what sort of friendly sprites and brownies do you know?]

[ooeeooahah]

Hah! Not usually - though there was that time we dropped a garbage truck in the city council chambers because they were going to cut the recycling routes to the less-well-off neighborhoods.

[welljustwatchme]

Oh, good for you. It sounds very rebellious.

[ooeeooahah]

I'm considering bringing that streak of rebellion to the fore more often, here.

[welljustwatchme]

You should. Maybe it'd do some good, eh?