“I don’t have any special talents at all, apart from drawing and painting as a hobby; nobody is offering a job in that line. All I am really good ...t is organising things at home. I keep tidying up our rooms at the farm, putting clothes away in the wardrobes and dressers, and filing away whatever documents Mum or dad are working on. They all tend to leave things lying around, especially Hermione with her clothes and stuff.”Reg turned his head to gaze enquiringly at Frances, who in turn was. Calm yourself and actually think about WHY you won’t be needed.”Glory said, “Because synths won’t be escaping the Institute any more. They’re shutting down access to the surface completely!”“Close, but still wrong. Anyone else care to exercise their brain?”“Synths won’t need to escape because they’ll be allowed to freely leave if they want to.”“I owe you an apology, Danse. I’m sorry, I thought you were just muscle. Now I see why Elder Maxson has counted you as a friend all these years. There’s. But I instinctually freak, yelling like “Mom, what the fuck, look away”, all of that, and after like a minute she replies with “Sorry, I had to get my debit card” really casually.Alright, still – pretty normal story albeit with a weird addition. But after this, I don’t know, it feels like something changed. She came home and I thought there’d be no mention of it, but the first thing she asked was, “Have a good time while I was out?” with a little grin and then hugged me a little.That’s not too. Before she’d left, Ellerion had been the most beautiful and coveted Elf in Laefandell, but Velesande was not far behind. “Forgive me, your Grace, I will repeat myself.” Velesande was always polite, always proper, at least when attending to political matters. She held a small roll of parchment in her delicate fingers and unfurled it to scan its contents again. “High Matriarch Velenar sends word that the Orcs and Dark Elves have formed a treaty and are moving on Amindaer City.”That got.