DAY FOURTEEN - Iceland

[ladyofthehouse]

[She's been expecting you.]

Guten Morgen. [The spirit curtsies as Austria used to mockingly.]

How can I be of service to you today, Herr Iceland?

Comments

[volcanoes]

Athena's missing Widget, so I said I'd let people who had locked areas know.

[...Is what Iceland says, but his face says he's absolutely sure she or one of her shadow thing friends stole it.]

[ladyofthehouse]

Oh?

That's quite a shame. She should be more careful with her things.

[Purposefully missing the connotations behind Iceland's words.]

[volcanoes]

...You guys must have been pretty upset about Klavier. [U MAD and also making his intent more obvious.]

[ladyofthehouse]

[She shrugs. He'll get his eventually.]

I get the feeling you're insinuating something.

[volcanoes]

You stole it. If not you, one of the others. Is it even in one piece?

[ladyofthehouse]

You certainly have a habit of making baseless accusations. [Tut, tut.]

I don't have it.

[Not lying even!]

[volcanoes]

Is it hanging up wherever you guys kill people like a trophy?

[ladyofthehouse]

It's not as if we have a secret lair. You're all just incredibly unobservant.

[volcanoes]

[Iceland answers in the language nations use to speak to one another when they can't speak a common, human one.] And humans are bad at learning languages.

[In other words, Iceland is pretty sure that they're concealing themselves in some manner that they can't manage to see through just because of the nature of whatever the shadow things are.]

[ladyofthehouse]

Ja well. [She flicks her hair dismissively.]

As much as I'd love to regale you with stories of how we function, isn't there a case you should be tending to?

Or at the very least, helping poor Frau Cykes find her beloved Widget?

[volcanoes]

[Iceland pulls a face, but relents.]

Fine. You should get going, too, unless you want even more people suspicious of you.

[She wouldn't be dumb enough to hide it in her own garden anyway.]

[ladyofthehouse]

Oh I intend to work quite hard today.