Astrid's Voicemail.

[white_oleander]

"Hey. You've reached Astrid's phone. Just leave a message, and I'll try to get back to you. Thanks!"

**BEEP**

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Winter Gift Exchange!

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord... did not know the first thing about Astrid, no. He knew due to the address he'd been given that Astrid was a student, and going by the name she was maybe a girl, but anything beyond that?

Hell. He had nothin'. What did kids like these days? What were people most likely to need? There had been a moment taken to bribe the squirrels into giving him some pointers, but the most that he could get them to cough up was something about tattoos, and there wasn't a hell of a lot he could do about that.

So he'd gone the safe route, he'd purchased a scarf, since it was colder than anything out there this week.

... And then he'd panicked and gone the other direction, too. So the scarf was wrapped around a sturdy pair of leather wrist cuffs from the same supplier that had made Fenris' boots for him.

And then he'd panicked further when he realized he couldn't get into the dorms to deliver it, so he'd bribed some gremlins to do the task for him, and they'd been all too eager to please the very large, weirdly polite possibly-a-gremlin, just so long as he agreed to buy them donuts and sardines for the rest of the month. They'd been angling for a clear-through-January deal, but Fjord could be pretty damn persuasive when he had a mind to. So that was what was going to be sitting, waiting on her bed for her when she got back. Some cuffs, wrapped in a scarf, with a tag with her name attached.

[seriesofbaddecisions]

It'd taken a bit, but sometime after Tuesday, Astrid would be getting a thick envelope carefully decorated in palm leaves to her house.

Sorry it took me so long to write back. The island's been doing some weird stuff. Last week there were dinosaurs everywhere, and then today the island was flooded. Mostly. It's Fandom, so it's a weird kind of flooding. The important thing is everything in my warehouse is mostly okay, but I have to repaint the floor, probably. Also over the weekend there was some reunion, and I guess I was old for it? I don't remember much, but Nina has pictures. Anyway, I tried to give you a good visual representation of what we're dealing with here.

I'd love to see the museums out there! I've looked them up a little but I don't know how different they are now. How's school? It's got to be more normal than this, right? (We're doing the summer thing again on Wednesdays. No prize this time, though. GOOD.)

Hope to hear from you soon! I'll probably write again soon anyway if things keep up the way they are. There's too much weird to let you miss out.


Sabine

And sure enough, in the envelope were quite a few postcard-sized drawings, both basic sketches and full color, of what the island had been doing. It was mostly dinosaurs, including a rainbow-spotted Stance dinosaur, but there was also a new one of a gondola in the streets of the town. It's been a weird couple weeks.

[mother_forker]

"Astrid! Buddy! Pal! Dressy trashy and come down to Carrot bar. Carrot? Caritas! Yeah. I'm surrounded by old people and it's weirding me out! They're showing the Petey Stoney Supernatural Movie Show. And remember the old people? They are in costume! It's ugly and I need pretty people here!"

Phone day

[fates_jaye]

Okay, Jaye was a little offended at the message she got.

I am just FINE unmedicated, thank you. All the fun girls talk to their purses.

Re: Phone day

[white_oleander]

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