Caging the Toy [Active]

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Character(s): Larxene, Rogue
Content: Larxene shows Rogue where she will be staying.
Setting: Larxene's secret lair
Time: night
Warnings: standard Larxene warnings

Larxene closed the portal behind her as she stepped out into a room that didn't have any doors. It wasn't far from her library, actually, but she needed somewhere more secluded at times, and this worked well. No one else knew about it, and that made it perfect.

"It's not much, but it's the best place," Larxene said.

The room was of decent size, with a few overstuffed bookshelves, a couch, and a desk. Most of the room was empty space; there was a closet with no door, currently empty, and a connecting bathroom, but it really was sparse.

"You won't have to stay here all the time," Larxene said. "Just for certain parts of the training."

The most important parts.

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[mercurialectric.livejournal.com]

Larxene smiled and proceeded to lie. "No one's really sure," she said. "They're just... As they are. I don't think they're human, really. But I'm sure you noticed."

She stretched casually. "Though maybe they're just a bit different--you can't really tell, after all."

[deadly-drawl.livejournal.com]

"I--yes.... maybe." It was an odd, awkward thing, agreeing with a comment like that.... she somehow felt a little ashamed, a little less human (and Heaven knew she wasn't very close to being one to begin with) for saying it. It--he, he had a gender and probably a name and maybe a family and--definitely wasn't entirely human the way she understood humanity to be, but still, there was something.... She couldn't even say what the feeling was, though it didn't feel right; regardless, she squelched it as best she could, trying to salve her conscience with the noncommittal amendment. What else could she do, really?