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Peridot: Alright, fine. Get! Just call if you need us!

Aquamarine: I will, I promise! Love you!

Everyone: Love you!

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Peridot: Remember you can call us if you start feeling sick, okay? No questions, we'll come get you!

Aquamarine: I haven't missed a day since 1st grade, Mom! I'm not gonna start now!

Peridot: Mari…

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Aquamarine: I'm not a baby anymore!

Celestial: You're our baby, and we're going. Didn't you say you'd be late?

Aquamarine: That's--oooooh, fine. But we gotta get going!

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Aquamarine: I'm fine, Gram, really!

Celestial: Well you sound it…but I'm walking you to school anyway.

Aquamarine: Daddy!

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Aquamarine: Feels it. I'm seriously gonna be late, though--

Peridot: I can call in for you!

Citrine: You never took that offer, why should she? Mari, honey, are you sure? You still look a little pale…

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Celestial: You're not still feeling sicky?

Aquamarine: No! I'm good now. It's just hot, that's all.

Celestial: No hotter than normal!

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Celestial: Whoa there, princess!

Aquamarine: Dad I'm gonna be late--

Celestial: Are you sure you wanna go today?

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Celestial: We're due some good luck!

Aquamarine: And I'm gonna be late for school!

Celestial: Speak of the devil.

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Celestial: Maybe Nova's right--we're due some good luck and maybe a few bad dreams are as bad as this one gets?

Peridot: Cel, babe, I don't think we're that lucky.

Celestial: Ah! We should be.

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Aquamarine: At least it wasn't bloody this time…sigh

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Aquamarine: *spits* Why can't I get that song out of my head? And who was that?

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Peridot: A-anyway. Mer-ghost. In the Springs. …I'm--I can take one of the others, see what we can find…

Nova: Or maybe, just maybe, everyone escapes this one unscathed?

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Citrine: Usually.

Fern: Sunshine, usual flew out the window long before Mari came around.

Peridot/Celestial: nervous laughter

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Peridot: It. Might not have been literal? There's a few Occults that don't have legs so maybe it was one of those--

Citrine: Like what, a Mer-spirit?

Peridot: Well yeah but. Those are usually deep water drownings not--not all the way up here!

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Peridot: So, probably not a family spirit. Angry one, then…but why at Mari? What did it do to her?

Celestial: She. …well, she told Dawn it took her legs. That it didn't have any and it took hers.

Calcite: …do I need to go find a Sage?

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Citrine: I can run down the family trees but--last I knew every cousin was either in town or alive, so…probably not that.

Fern: Not unless Uncle Mantis spawned!

Nova: Fern…

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Aquamarine: muffled humming