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I bet I'm not the only one who's glad that's over. [A giggle.]

And just in time for Thanksgiving, too! My first one. It smells really amazing in here already, too. Since we didn't have any turkeys, especially not any exploding—

[But she stops that train of thought, because she's just going to get more frantic and awkward. As usual.]

I'm really excited, though. I think it's important to have stuff like this. I mean, there's a lot to be thankful for. N-Not that we shouldn't be thankful every day! But maybe a special day for it is good, too.

It'll be my first Halloween here in a few weeks too. I know you're supposed to dress up and give out candy to little kids, but I don't really know much about it other than that. It doesn't seem very fun, just sitting in your house in a costume, I guess. I'm probably missing something, though.

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[uberboned]

Is it almost Halloween again already?

[Wow. Time flies.] I've been here two years now.

[motioned]

Yep, in about three weeks, I think!

Yeah... I will have been in a month. It's really weird to think about. But it's one of the things I'm thankful for.

[uberboned]

[It's also the anniversary of something less than pleasant, but he chooses not to think about that.]

Man, but doesn't time fly? [A beat] How're you handling Thanksgiving?

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I know. It's really amazing... I never thought I would be here this long.

[Aaaand switching the feed.]

Ciel promised we wouldn't have any turkey, so I think I'll be okay.

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[uberboned]

Good for him. If he sticks any kind of bird on the menu, call me and I'll mess up his other eye.

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[motioned]

You can't solve problems like that!

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[uberboned]

Sure, I can. [He's joking. Kinda.]

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[motioned]

Well, you can, but that doesn't mean you should! [SIGH.]

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[uberboned]

That's more like it. Relax, kiddo, Ciel's one good eye is safe from me. If I screw him over, no one will tell Trancy he's pretty.

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[motioned]

He isn't pretty, he's a boy!

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[uberboned]

He wears garters, Ahiru.

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[motioned]

Garters don't make you pretty!

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[uberboned]

And boys also don't wear them.

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He can wear whatever he wants, he's still a boy!

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[uberboned]

But a pretty boy.

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[motioned]

Is there a point to this?

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[uberboned]

Nope. Just messin' around.

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[motioned]

[Sigh. Again.]

Are you doing anything for Thanksgiving?

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[uberboned]

I'm technically American. We wait until November.

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[motioned]

Angels can have a nationality?

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[uberboned]

They can when they spend their days trickstering across America.

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[motioned]

So that was just your favorite country?

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[uberboned]

India wasn't too bad, but I don't get my trickster on where I get my-

[....Oh wait. He's talking to Ahiru.]

Uhhh... My friends there wouldn't've appreciated it too much. Either way, America's got very few old gods of its own, so I just joined the ranks. Beats Asgard any day.

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Where you what?

[Quick, Gabriel, think of a good lie!]

Really? What was it like, other than the other gods?

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[uberboned]

Where I hang out. [NICE SAVE, GABE.]

In Asgard? It was way more pretentious than Heaven. No one needs mead halls that big. Period. Odin's overcompensating... Or he was. He's dead now.

[He's two years removed from all that and, really, no matter what happened in the end... he did warn them all. Their deaths weren't on his head. Well, they were kinda. If he'd only come back in before the bloodbath...

But he died at the Elysian Fields just like they did, so moot point now.]