Caius
I invented movie night for selfish reasons, and I'd like that entered into the record before anyone starts calling it sweet.
I'd been at the mansion a week, officially to coordinate the badlands tracking from Zephyr's map room, unofficially because leaving felt like walking uphill and I'd stopped fighting the gradient. And the house was too quiet. Not peaceful quiet. Held-breath quiet. Since the study, since the swearing, everyone was being so careful, four people orbiting each other with such elaborate consideration that meals had started to feel like diplomacy, and diplomacy is the one language I refuse to learn.
So on Thursday I stood on a chair at breakfast and declared that henceforth, by the ancient law of I Said So, this household would observe movie night. Attendance manda
