text | un: kovacs

[kovach]

[ after attempting to follow some small footprints from the dining room, kovacs briefly hears some strange and suspicious laughter that echoes out for only a short time before it's gone.

— the fuck? ]

Has anyone heard some creepy fucking kids giggling in the hallways?

Or seen some tiny feet trailing around?

Comments

text / un: starkov

[peasant]

👻?

in all honesty, it could be the castle playing tricks on you. it has a habit of thinking it's hilarious.

[kovach]

Yeah, it's fucking hysterical.

If people are chatting up this castle, can't someone talk to it and ask what the fuck?

[peasant]

would you like us to use those exact words? just wondering.
hello, excuse me, kovacs wants to know, "what the fuck?"

i'm not really sure it works like that, anyway. then again, i'm not an expert on person-to-castle communication.

[kovach]

Yeah, I want you to say exactly that: What the fuck?

So who's been chatting it up anyway? Have we found out anything actually important?

[peasant]

right. because that's going to go well with a sentient castle that houses giant, murderous trees and thunderstorms in its rooms.

finn has. it's been obstructing us on purpose to protect remi and the princess. maybe you wandered too close to aureliah and the castle wanted to scare you away from coming any closer.

[kovach]

It's called a power move. Can't back down and let it seize control. Gotta show your teeth.

I don't know Finn, so go ahead and pass my what the fuck message.

[peasant]

go flex in a mirror to assert your dominance and tell me how that goes for you.
i'll be waiting on your results to try it myself.

oh, sure. i'll deliver it word for word.

[ narrative voice: she was not going to deliver it. ]