[Peony gradually brightens as she helps him to build a fort. She wont say it out loud, because that's what normally gets her in trouble, but when she was little her nanny used to make forts and dens for her out of bed sheets.
It's nostalgic and comforting in equal measure.] I kind of miss my tent.
[Corbin grabs another few pillows from somewhere and plops them down into the almost finished fort. He kind of wishes he had some of Caleb's dancing lights, but they'll be fine.]
Yeah? What was that like?
[He takes a look at the fort and, deciding that it's fine structurally, he grabs some of his shiny baubles to hang up inside]
It was nice. [Bernie has already made himself comfortable inside of the pillow fort, snuggling down into the blankets.]
I used to put bells and shells on the inside. To make them all pretty.
My parents would let me camp on the grounds sometimes. Once they forgot I was there because they had gone away to this big fancy wedding up North and I got to stay out there for a whole week. It was great.
[He carefully digs around in some boxes under his bed, full of random crap that he's collected, not good enough for his walls, but that he still didn't want to throw away, and he eventually pulls out a string of slightly dented bells. He spends a few minutes buffing them with a shirt]
My folks, we live in this house out in a national forest. [Pause as he realizes that Peony probably wouldn't know what that was] Like, a forest that the gov'ment said you can't just go and cut down trees or hunt without their say so. But we go campin out there a lot, and we fish, my dad's real good at it. Sometimes I go with just my friends, sometimes it's my folks, my brother used to take me out to meet the dryads when I was little. It's a good place.
[The bells now shiny again, he hangs them up inside the tent]
That sounds really nice. I've only met a few dryads. They're kind of funny around humans. Titania showed me once but I had to hold onto her skirt the whole time. There's a few in the Queenswood and they can be a real pain if you don't pay them off first.
I'm a little jealous you get to live there all the time.
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It's nostalgic and comforting in equal measure.] I kind of miss my tent.
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Yeah? What was that like?
[He takes a look at the fort and, deciding that it's fine structurally, he grabs some of his shiny baubles to hang up inside]
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I used to put bells and shells on the inside. To make them all pretty.
My parents would let me camp on the grounds sometimes. Once they forgot I was there because they had gone away to this big fancy wedding up North and I got to stay out there for a whole week. It was great.
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Bells! That's what it was missin...
[He carefully digs around in some boxes under his bed, full of random crap that he's collected, not good enough for his walls, but that he still didn't want to throw away, and he eventually pulls out a string of slightly dented bells. He spends a few minutes buffing them with a shirt]
My folks, we live in this house out in a national forest. [Pause as he realizes that Peony probably wouldn't know what that was] Like, a forest that the gov'ment said you can't just go and cut down trees or hunt without their say so. But we go campin out there a lot, and we fish, my dad's real good at it. Sometimes I go with just my friends, sometimes it's my folks, my brother used to take me out to meet the dryads when I was little. It's a good place.
[The bells now shiny again, he hangs them up inside the tent]
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[Peony perks up at the bells being strung up.]
That sounds really nice. I've only met a few dryads. They're kind of funny around humans. Titania showed me once but I had to hold onto her skirt the whole time. There's a few in the Queenswood and they can be a real pain if you don't pay them off first.
I'm a little jealous you get to live there all the time.
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[He digs around for a bit in a drawer]
Aw, hell yeah cookies.