'cause clever got me this far

[23rd]

Who: Laura, Kiden & Remy
What: Laura drags home a stray her friend because it is unacceptable to eat garbage when there are people to help you, Kiden.
Where: Wanda and Remy's house, Abrogate Green
When: Shortly after this.
Notes: None.
Warnings: Probably some foul language.

"This is where I'm staying. It is the house of my..." Laura pauses, unsure what their relationship actually is. They're definitely not related, and she wouldn't know what familial title to ascribe to these people even if she wanted to use one. "Friend," she decides on eventually, with the expectation that Kiden will trust her judgment when it comes to people not being dangerous.

Laura's pretty good at telling who the dangerous people are.

She's taken Kiden from the alley she found her in here -- it's a long train ride from Chimer to Abrogate Green, clear on the other side of the city, but it gives them time to catch up. Well, it gives Kiden time to talk and Laura time to listen, because she has very little to say. She's not good at taking care of people, but she assumes Remy will know what to do about this. She trusts he'll be able to get her settled, because Laura doesn't blame Kiden one bit for not trusting the people at the Inn. She certainly didn't.

She opens the front door and enters with her. It occurs to her she ought to say something instead of just quietly sneaking through the door all the time -- she's been lead to believe that announcing one's presence is normal from the television -- at the Institute, she watched a lot of old sitcoms -- and the students themselves, who had a habit of bursting into rooms and immediately shouting at each other. So instead of hauling Kiden through the house until she could leap at Remy like some kind of terrible home-invading ninja (or your average cat), Laura calls out like a normal human being. "Remy."

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It's genuinely difficult to catch Remy at the house when he's not either a) asleep, b) with Wanda or b) actively wrangling some kind of high octane domestic near-disaster with the boys, but Laura's always had a sense for the timing of things. At present, he's out back in the garden, smoking and leisurely getting back to people over the cohort network, so he's within earshot when Laura calls for his attention.

(Which is a little weird.)

Remy - who is a big guy with weird eyes, which makes him look intimidating even when he's not trying to be so - makes no assumptions when he comes into the hall and sees Laura and her guest. (Though he remembers Alice.) He gives Kiden a look that's curious, but not suspicious.

To Laura: "Petite?"