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Fern makes a spaghetti dinner and we all eat like we’ve just escaped death. Because we did. Marguerite shows up midway through and I give her a giant hug while everyone claps.
As Fern and Marguerite share a very enthusiastic kiss hello, the rest of us pile a plate high with pasta. “You really had me convinced we were gonna die and you didn’t care,” I tell Marguerite as she joins us at the table. I pour her a glass of blood too. “You should try out for community theatre.”
She tilts her head. “I couldn’t tell you,” she says. “We needed those Humans First jerks to believe it.”
Shauna offers Marguerite the sugar bowl so she can add some to her blood, but she shakes her head.
“Well, you fooled the s**t out of me,” Shauna says. “Like literally. I crapped my pants when I thought we were al
