Content warning for the below chapter: human remains, not graphically described.
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Next had turned out, after a discussion with One and Two (“Ugh, save Genealogy for last, or at least, do the basement all in one go”, and “If you go this way, you can avoid the Barbies. And Alice. Oh, and Gertrude.”), to actually be Supernatural and Occult.
“It’s, ah. It’s not as bad as it sounds?” Two had offered. She’d been pulling out scones and a small tin of clarified butter for Veronika at the time and gotten her hand slapped at the second scone. “Come on, she’s pretty okay. And wait ‘till I tell you what Mariyam did.”
One’s eyes had narrowed, and in the end, Veronika had been given three scones, the butter, and a knife — “it’s a reproduction, of course, but bring it back if you can.”
She’d also been given the strangest directions yet — and that might be saying something — to a department which was, in theory, just on the other side of the building on the same floor as Reprography.
With an assurance that she would indeed return the knife, she trundled her little cart out of Reprography and into the rows and rows of shelving and boxes. Continue reading