Open: Well young lady, have you been good to your mother?

[biteybaby]

Sunny Baudelaire has been having quite an exciting time lately. For once, "exciting" means "filled with fun" and not "filled with terror, pain, panic, and an inordinate amount of running and hiding". Without the threat of Count Olaf and his associates finding her in an attempt to steal the Baudelaire fortune, Sunny has had more time for her studies. "Her studies" is a phrase which here means, "catching up on learning how to do things most people take for granted".

She has finally learned how to walk. She thinks the amount of words she is now able to say has increased. Magnu has even taught her a few things in sign language, which she finds is a little easier than speaking. The biggest news is that she now has five very sharp teeth, as opposed to the four she started with when she arrived.

Shortly before she arrived, Mr Poe had told the Baudelaires about an aphorism: It takes a village to raise a child. She wonders if that is why she has had so much time to grow. Her days are spent rotating around between several different guardians, babysitters, and friends, and it has been lovely. She hopes her siblings are having just as good of a time in the village of V.F.D.

Unfortunately I must report that her siblings are not having just as good of a time in the village of V.F.D., nor are they even still in the village of V.F.D. Sunny does not know this. It would probably be for the best if nobody tells her.

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[futaille]

"You're welcome." He holds Sunny close, bouncing her gently, as he heads off to go outside and over to the house to drop her off.

[biteybaby]

She is mostly asleep before they are even most of the way to the house. Her sippy cup threatens to fall a few times.

[futaille]

He shifts very carefully to keep a hand on the sippy cup as he makes his way through the trees. He's delivering precious cargo, after all.

[sagramore]

Sagramore is inside reading poetry at the kitchen table, and when he hears Grantaire knock on the door he gets to his feet to answer it.

"Hello there."

[biteybaby]

At the sound of knocking, Sunny opens her eyes part of the way, but she doesn't lift up her head or even reach a level most people would consider 'fully awake'. She closes her eyes again.

[futaille]

He nods down at Sunny. "We had a small adventure. I asked her where to take her to sleep, and I am now delivering her as asked."

[sagramore]

"Oh, of course." He pushes his reading glasses back up the bridge of his nose. "We built a cradle for her. Does she need her swaddling changed?"

[biteybaby]

Yes.

[futaille]

A nod. "I believe it does, yes."

[sagramore]

"All right, let me take her, I'll get her cleaned up and settled." He lifts Sunny out of Grantaire's arms.

[futaille]

He hands her over carefully. "She was clean before we set off here, or I would have taken care of it."

[biteybaby]

Sunny makes a little noise as she is shuffled from Grantaire to Sagramore, but quickly settles on Sagramore's shoulder.

[sagramore]

"It's all right, I almost believe thou didst not do it on purpose," with a grin. "Thank thee for bringing her."

[futaille]

"It was my pleasure, I assure you."

[biteybaby]

She finally falls entirely asleep. It's a real shame this happened before she got her diaper changed.

[sagramore]

Sagramore murmurs to her fondly, and takes her inside.