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[crushed_pearls]

Erin's voice mail message is in a weary voice: "Erin Peters. If you called in the middle of the night and I didn't answer, I'm dying. If I pick up and someone on your end isn't dying, they will be shortly. Text otherwise."

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[crushed_pearls]

"Well you could run off and join the circus, or I could say that I suspect you'll be fine. Ruby likes my absurd style but like...genuinely you're hilarious, you'll be fine." Lil' nibble of the cinnamon roll. "I was passing along the clown jokes entirely so she could come back to me and ask why I'd give that power to another."

[decrypter]

"Because that's the right you have as her sister. To wield love and terror with fairness, equality, and sometimes in the same move."

[crushed_pearls]

"Exactly!" Erin chuckles to herself. "...Hey, thanks for, y'know, bringing the food and the coffee. I know it wasn't the biggest ask but like, thanks, still. Few things that don't involve active bodily harm suck more than guard duty with no food."

[decrypter]

"It's my pleasure. Let me know if you need any more, I don't mind delivering so long as you can tell me what you want. And oh!"

Reaching into her bag, she pulls out a second cinnamon roll, like the one she'd been carrying before.

"This is for Miss Daisy. Tell her it's from you. I doubt she's been eating decently."

[crushed_pearls]

"...Helena your compassion knows no bounds." Erin delicately takes the cinnamon roll; it'll get to Daisy. "Whenever you're done with like, dinner-dinner yourself, if you could bring a couple plates back of whatever as long as it ain't spicy. I've got the heat tolerance of dry paper and Daisy's, y'know, Welsh, so..."

[decrypter]

"You both could stand to try and work on that."

Said with all the confidence of the girl who took the extremely spicy wings at the carnival and pronounced them exceptional while lesser souls were hacking at the Scoville content. Get better, Erin.

"But fine, I will bring you something delicious without spice. You have my word."

[crushed_pearls]

(Does...does she...does she want...Daisy to be...less Welsh?)

...No?

(You don't sound sure.)

I DUNNO AND I AM NOT ASKING.

"I'll see you again then, little bird. I should probably get back to being tall and scary."