Good. That's good. Small favors. [ someone like lily being stuck in this polite hellscape is like watching a graceful creature of war defanged - she would be at the forefront of a fight to take back autonomy but instead there's no fight to be had.

someday. ]

Aces. [ maybe it's interesting, hearing the midlands accent from her—petunia left cokeworth behind entirely but lily still has some of the sound of it clinging around the edges of her speech. ] You can start tomorrow if you'd like, and we can try to figure out longer-term housing then too. Do you have a place for tonight?