Room 7, Carriage House, Monday morning

[side_spook]

Nadia awoke sharply from an unhappy dream, though the only outward sign that she did so was the change in the rhythm of her breathing. After a few moments, she started to shift slowly, without opening her eyes, just to see if Walter was still beside her and to make sure that he was all in one piece

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[walter_n_wires]

Walter was all in one piece and awake and watching her when her breathing shifted. Nothing supernatural or super-butlery about it, he'd just not slept much through the night, watching over Nadia after something he knew troubled her, to say the least.

When she started to shift, he moved closer and draped an arm over her body.

[side_spook]

Nadia stiffened slightly, just for an instant, when he moved, then relaxed again. She mumbled something that might have been "good morning", or might have been a request for him to catch her a marlin.

[walter_n_wires]

"I will bring you the deadly swamp marlin later and serve it up to you on toast," Walter promised in a low murmur, smiling at the thought of how that response would probably confuse her. "And good morning."

[side_spook]

Yeah, it really, really did. She blinked her eyes open. ". . . deadly swamp marlin?"