Room 17, Second Floor, Haunted House, Tuesday Afternoon

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Thanks to all the drama in New York, Isabelle was a late arrival to the house on Ingvar. Of course, now that she'd been there for all of an hour, you could hardly tell she hadn't been there all along. She had a supernatural skill both for transporting a lot of her possessions over from the main island, as well as for spreading said possessions all across the room with very little thought to the fact that she was apparently sharing this room with someone. So, in that respect, she was already as at home as she possibly could be.

This house felt like bad news, though. She felt like she was being watched while she was straightening up the few extra pillows on the bed. And she did not like the feeling.

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And this was just a small portion of all the stuff she had in her room at the dorms, which at this point was kind of a den of glittery girlishness. And also concealed weapons.

"You won't mind if I hang some of my dresses out, right?"

She wasn't actually asking his permission.

"Maybe a corset, too."

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"Would it stop you if I said no?" Nathan wondered because he really didn't think it would. He really didn't.

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For that, he got her very best dazzling smile.

"No."

Of course not.

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"So, why ask me?" he wondered, shaking his head. "It's not like my answer mattered."

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"I was being polite." And he was responding to it incorrectly, so she was going to wrinkle her nose, now. "I'll be sure to skip it from now on."

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"That doesn't make sense, though," Nathan pointed out. "If you're being polite and I answered honestly and you were going to ignore it anyway, that doesn't sound like actual politeness."

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Isabelle waved her Marked hand dismissively again.

"Most politeness is just a way of achieving the illusion of giving a damn about others' opinions, anyway."

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"Well, I appreciate your phony politeness," Nathan said, going right back to a dry tone. "I'll be sure to remember it for the future."

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Isabelle shrugged. "It's a free country, they tell me."

Translation: she did not care. At all. Once the makeup things were adequately spread out across the desk, she went to pick up her bag off her bed, and slung it over her shoulder.

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"Doesn't always seem like it though," he said absently.

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Sadly, Isabelle didn't seem to be listening anymore. Or maybe it was for the best. "I'm heading back into town," she said. "Try not to trip on my things."

Thankfully she didn't have a lot of her stuff on the floor. Yet, anyway.

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Nathan didn't say anything. Just waved a hand and kept looking at the various pictures in the magazine without reading any words that might go along with them.

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Isabelle didn't even wave back. Just disappeared out the door.

Yeah, this would work out fine.