Room 210; Thursday Afternoon [06/14].

After grabbing some lunch, Astrid found herself surprisingly antsy to get back to her room, where she knew the Fish would be waiting. She wasn't expecting to want anything to do with her, intent to just foist it onto Sabine to have her painterly ways with it, but she had thought of at least a few things she wanted to do before she bequeathed the honor.

Which was to take her mother's knife and crudely carve a Shakespeare quote ("A little water clears us of this deed.") into the underside of its belly. And then set it among her oleander and sketch it, for the backside of a letter to her mother that she planned to open with the line, The other day, I won a fish from the river of Babel...

Might as well try to get something out of it. And then it was a matter of whether or not to include the holographic images it apparently decided to project at random now without even being touched.

God. This place.

[[she's expecting a roommate, but door and post are open!]]