There were a great many positive things Myrika might have said about the Great Village schoolhouse. It was not quite so lonely here with Kaena, Halo, and Halo's children living with her, and that had been her only real complaint about the place. It was sturdily built, perhaps meant as a fallout shelter before the demise of humanity, and there were no holes or leaky patches in the roof to speak of. The warmth emanating from her little woodstove kept her own room toasty in winter, and neither of her houseguests -- housemates, she supposed, since there was nothing temporary about either Causarius's stay -- had ever complained about the temperature.
The redhead stood in what had once been a rear office, a long and narrow room with few windows. She stood, gawking at herself in a cracked mirror. She made faces, stretched and pinched skin, stood on the very tips of her toes and then hunkered down. Frowning broadly, she was still engaged in this when a noise caught her attention -- surely, the sound of the front door opening. It hadn't creaked since Ithiel had applied that strange oil, but it wasn't quiet, either. Myri stepped away from the little mirror and rushed out of the back office. The tawny coyote wore her longer hand-made skirt, the short one, and she paused, briefly considering throwing the thing off, when a voice hurried her onward..
She poked her head out of her room and saw Sparrow within the hallway. The reddish coyote smiled as she stepped out and into the dimly lit hallway. Hi Sparrow, she said, leaning awkwardly against the doorframe. How goes the reading?
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