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Who: Rita and YOU!
When: Day 28-29
Where: Around Rita's trailer.
What: Someone left catnip at Rita's trailer, cuteness commences, also general in-between-event stuff for anyone who wants it!

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Passing through the trailer yard, one might find Rita crouched outside Trailer 19. Her wings seem to be missing several feathers, but beyond that, she appears to be unharmed and in good health despite all the recent chaos.

In fact, she's actually... having... fun?

The space just outside the trailer door appears to be heavily sprinkled with catnip and mint, and her Litten, Francis, purrs up a storm as he rolls around in it. Rita appears to be filming his adorable antics with a handheld video camera, grinning all the while. She doesn't immediately notice if someone else happens to be nearby.

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Alternatively, Rita might be seen around the carnival, reading a book she picked up in Wismuth, putting the finishing touches on a thick manuscript she's been writing, or just hanging around the training grounds, trailer park, or cookhouse. If you want to do something else with Rita, feel free to tag with a different starter, or hit me up on plurk (pzue) to plot!

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With a heavy sigh, Rita switches her own camera off. Looks like she won't get rid of him that easily.

"Fine. What do you want?"

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Unfortunately, Lambert's like static: he tends to stick to you when you'd least like him to.

"Did Foster actually let you see that book?" He raises a brow. "What'd you think of it?"

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Right... the book. It's not too weird for Lambert to want to follow up on that.

"Yeah..." Rita frowns. "He insisted on sitting and staring at me the whole time, like a creep, but I finished a few chapters. It'll probably take a few sessions to get through the whole thing." Even with Rita's reading speed, there's no helping that. The book's just that long and dense.

"Without knowing who the author is, I can't be sure how reliable the information is, but any parts that can be verified seem to be in line with what we already know. So far, I was able to learn a few things about the Source, the multiverse, and timelines."

[whattaprick]

Foster is a creep, no getting around that. But though Rita doesn't seem to have particularly enjoyed working with him, she's also not recoiling with disgust or freaking out ... neither of which she's proven to be shy about in the past. Though if Lambert hadn't ordered Foster, he wonders if he would have cooperated at all.

"You could probably use him as a book rest if you had to," he says dryly. He's only half-joking.

At any rate, he reaches into a pocket, tugging forth a piece of paper covered in Foster's handwriting, which Rita may or may not be familiar with. "When I asked him for a summary, he gave me this. Not exactly convenient, obviously -- but if nothing else, it gives you an idea of what's in the book." He pauses, grimacing. "I don't know if it's any use beyond what we already know -- that the fae are pretty damn powerful."

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Rita takes the note and reads it, her face scrunching into a grimace as she tries to parse some of the less coherent bits. "Ugh. Is this the best he could do?" she groans.

However, she takes on a more thoughtful look as she sees some of the latter notes. "Hmm... The Ringmaster mentioned these, too... the concepts and qualities associated with the fae courts." There was a lot happening at the time, though, so it's nice to have it in writing. Once Rita's finished those chapters, she'll make sure to put it in her own writing, too.

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“I told him to give me a summary, but keep it short so I could understand it.” Lambert shrugs. “Guess he took that a bit too seriously.”

Hence where Rita comes in. “He only brought it up because he thought the part about Creation was important. Obviously, considering who we’ve run into, I’m more interested in the fae ... but I’m not a mage and I have better things to do than read books all day.”

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"It wouldn't kill you to read a few more books," Rita comments flatly. As far as she's concerned, reading is something everyone should do more of. Maybe then the carnival wouldn't have as much of an idiot problem as it does now.

...Never mind the fact that one of the biggest idiots around here, Strange, happens to be a bookworm, too.

"I'll try to get through the rest of it over the next few weeks," she adds after a pause. "I wouldn't mind learning more about the fae in detail, myself. I've still got to go through some research 9S compiled while we were in Wismuth, too..."

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“Why should I, when I’ve got you and Strange to do it for me?” Lambert returns, raising a brow and grinning at her. He knows where his strengths are, and speed reading most certainly isn’t one of them. “Too bad you don’t have that book anymore. It was handy.”

When Rita goes on, though, his expression grows more thoughtful to match.

“Write it down,” he tells her. “I know Strange is working on a book, but we can’t just count on that. One person having all the pieces isn’t going to work.” If something happens to one of them... goes implied. He’s sure she can fill in that blank herself.

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"I was going to take notes whether you asked me to or not," Rita confirms with a shrug. But, indirectly acknowledging that her usual handwriting is illegible to the average person, she adds, "Guess I'll try and format them in a way that's easier to read..."

The mention of Strange writing a book gets a raised eyebrow from her. It's not that surprising, but... "He's writing a book? About fae?" That would be her first guess, going off the context of this conversation, and the fact that Strange can occasionally be heard rambling about them at length to people on the radio.

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"Just give me something that's easier to understand than Foster's," Lambert snorts. Surely that should be a low enough bar for Rita to clear, right? But on the subject of Strange writing a book about fae, her apparent lack of awareness about that fact makes him blink.

"You didn't know? Would've thought you'd be one of the first people he'd go running to." Both of them being far too attached to reading and all the rest.

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"We did discuss writing a few times... he said he was thinking of writing a memoir next." Sounds like those plans changed... not that it's all that surprising. All things considered, a book about fae sounds useful.

"I'll have to ask him about it, next time we talk." Especially since she'll be showing him the finished draft of her own book.

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"He's writing a memoir about being in a fae carnival. Can't avoid talking about the fae in something like that." There's a bit of a frown on his face, just thinking about it, but he shakes it off.