JGoB, Monday Evening

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The plans were coming close to completion and Myria really should be pleased with this fact. Should be thrilled to be rid of this confusing and horrible form.

But was not.

The madness of it was both thrilling and terrifying at the same moment. Nothing since she had become corporeal made sense and this was no different.

So, for now, she thought these matters over as she stared at her doughnut. That most assuredly contained no nuts.

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As far as Susan had found, this town couldn't do right by tea at all. But every once in a while, when she felt the need to get something pastry-like, such as a pastry, she'd try it, all the while thinking that maybe it would be different this time.

This time proved no different, no.

As she was finding a seat, she happened to notice the woman at the table, finding the staring odd. So Susan stared at her, staring at the doughnut, only she was silently judging.

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It didn't have that certain charm that came from food that tasted of something other than what they claimed was in it.

Once the doughnut gave up no mysteries of it's origins, Myria looked up to find the girl watching her.

"Hello." No real inflection in the tone, but it was something.

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"Giving you some trouble, is it?" Susan asked with a glance towards the doughnut.

Hello was for other people.

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Awww. Myria was people. Wait. That was the problem here.

"Does food often do that?"

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"Not as a general rule, but I suppose it's possible to get a bad batch of anything." Especially if Albert was cooking it.

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Myria turned her attention back to the nutless pastry.

"How would you know?" Other than trying it. Which was madness.

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"Usually the first step is eating it," Susan replied. The judging was not stopping, Myria.

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Your judgement is vast and unending, Susan. Vast. And unending.

Myria made a small noise, then promptly frowned at herself for doing so. "I don't believe it will be necessary," she said, pushing it away. Possibly in Susan's direction. Possibly not.

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"Then why do you have it in the first place?"

Maybe Susan was silly for believing logic worked here. It was definitely the strangest behavior she'd seen here.

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"It claimed to have nuts in it."

No, that still made very little sense.

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"So you bought it to..." she began, expecting the woman to finish the sentence.

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"I'm unsure," she admitted, finding it surprising even herself to say. "There was a need that I cannot remember now."

And by need, she meant craving. It was all the fault of that toast.

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"Hunger?" Susan guessed. Never once had she had such a lengthy conversation about not eating a doughnut. Very strange.

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One day she might long for this sort of normalcy.

Maybe.

"Perhaps." Possibly because she wanted to be hungry. Another small rebellion.

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"Are you new?" Susan asked. Maybe she was some from other planet or time where somehow food was... something.

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"Not anymore." She had been here for more than a week after all. "But I'm still learning everything."

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"Like doughnuts." Which didn't have nuts in them. Still weird. "Where are you from?"

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"Ankh-Morpork," she decided on, the idea plucked out of air. A fanciful phrase if she ever thought of one.

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Susan would not have figured that. That was interesting.

"Is that right," she said. "I was there not long ago."

It was a business trip of sorts, but no need to get into details.

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None at all!

"Were you?" Myria asked, trying to sort through all the useless thoughts in her brain to remember her.

It didn't work when you were confined in a body, it seemed.

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"Susan," she said, and because it just sounded better when she phrased it this way, "Duchess of Sto Helit."

See, they were totally practically neighbors, sort of not really.

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Fruit baskets were clearly imminent!

"Lady Myria LeJean." Of... Ankh-Morpork now, it appeared.

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"I've never heard of you," she said conversationally. Usually she heard some form of gossip about all the lords and ladies worth hearing about at some point or another. What else was nobility going to talk about but other nobility?

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Tsk! Gossiping, Susan.

"I'm new." Which could have possibly meant she was one of those people who bought their title.

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Sometimes you just heard things!

"Aha," Susan said, taking it exactly that way.

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"Aha?"

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"Being new would explain why I hadn't heard of you."

She thought she handled that well.

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Myria stared for a moment as though trying to take Susan apart with the power of her mind.

One might actually believe it was possible even.

"I--look forward to seeing you around."