Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
There ya are._ Erik grinned at her as he came bounding down the steps two at a time. He stepped around his statue of a sister as if such a thing were normal. Perhaps here it was. He paused, nodding at Malina. __orning, banshee._ He gave a small brotherly laugh and poked his thumb toward her face. __he does kind of look like a banshee with her hair flying around like that and her mouth all open. Yeah, ma froze her good. See how her eyes don__ move?_ Erik leaned closer to her and grinned as he looked into her mouth. __a, Euann put a mint in there.
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There ya are._ Erik grinned at her as he came bounding down the steps two at a time. He stepped around his statue of a sister as if such a thing were normal. Perhaps here it was. He paused, nodding at Malina. __orning, banshee._ He gave a small brotherly laugh and poked his thumb toward her face. __he does kind of look like a banshee with her hair flying around like that and her mouth all open. Yeah, ma froze her good. See how her eyes don__ move?_ Erik leaned closer to her and grinned as he looked into her mouth. __a, Euann put a mint in there.
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