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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[ravkanwitch]

She holds the ring, curious. "Why did you want to eat this?" Khitka chatters, slightly upset that she has taken the ring away. That was a gift for Sunny.

[biteybaby]

"Aawagee tuah aloksuf bafly ga, prata mn ralwek cook!" Sunny very helpfully explains.

[ravkanwitch]

"True," Nina tells her, as sagely as she can muster, "but I'm afraid that this is so small, you might choke on it! I'm also... not sure whose it is."

[biteybaby]

Sunny does not think she would choke on it. She crosses her arms.

[ravkanwitch]

"If it's something shiny and gold you want, we can try and find something bigger," Nina says, in her best persuasive tone. "Along with some food for Khitka."

[biteybaby]

Bigger might be good, Sunny reasons. She uncrosses her arms.

[ravkanwitch]

"Onward?" Nina asks, offering her hand again. Khitka bounds off again, still upset that her present that was specifically for Sunny was taken away.

[biteybaby]

Sunny grabs on to Nina's hand.

[ravkanwitch]

As Nina leads her towards one of the kitchens, Khitka comes bounding back and is determinedly carrying something in her mouth that's making a thunk thunk thunk sound as she runs. Sunny wants something gold? Nina thinks a ring is too small? Well fine! She's now carrying a gold candlestick holder by the thinnest part and she lays it in front of Sunny.

"Khitka..." Nina says, again. Where did she get that from?

[biteybaby]

"Oh thanks," Sunny says as she carefully bends over to pick up the candlestick holder. She immediately starts to chew on one end.

[ravkanwitch]

Nina suddenly feels a bit too Adult for her own liking, but she supposes there's no harm in Sunny chewing on a candlestick. "Is that what you wanted?"

[biteybaby]

She nods.

[ravkanwitch]

Sunny and Khitka: 1, Nina: 0. "Alright," she says, peeking into the kitchen. "What would the two of you like to eat? Please don't ask me to cook anything." Khitka sits in front of the fridge and flops over, looking as cute as she possibly can. She knows there are eggs in there.

[biteybaby]

“Caire,” she says and signs carrot.

[ravkanwitch]

The combination is enough for Nina to figure it out; she digs around in the fridge and finds one (and yes, Khitka, she takes out a quail egg as well), washing it before handing it over to Sunny. "Do you want the whole thing or should I cut it for you?"

[biteybaby]

“All!” She says, reaching out to grab it from Nina. “Bite!”

[ravkanwitch]

Nina hands her the entire carrot. She also cracks the quail egg in a small bowl and slips it to Khitka, who happily chows down on it. "Sunny, do you want to see a magic trick?" Nina asks.

[biteybaby]

Sunny nods as she munches on her carrot.

[ravkanwitch]

It still pains Nina in some part of her soul to call it "magic" but she's nothing if not adaptable. She only has her bone shards on her person in a pouch, so she pulls a couple out and sends them spiraling through the air, careful to keep them a good distance from Sunny.

[biteybaby]

“Wow!” Sunny says, smiling. Everyone here is so magical!

[ravkanwitch]

Nina leaves the shards whirling with a simple hand gesture and looks at Sunny speculatively. "Can you do magic, Sunny?" The mansion spirits wouldn't bring an absolutely helpless child in, would they? Then again, her abilities didn't begin developing until she was around 6 or 7. 

[biteybaby]

Sunny shakes her head no. This is why she wanted to eat the gold! Lan Wangji said it would give her magic powers called cultivations. Or something, she can't really remember exactly what he said. She makes a mental note to ask again, the next time she sees him.

[ravkanwitch]

"I see," Nina says, considering things for a moment, retracting the bone shards and send them flying back into the pouch. Khitka has finished her egg (well, she had finished it 10 seconds after Nina put it down) and is now licking the bowl around the ground of the kitchen. "Do you want to do magic?"

[biteybaby]

"Uh huh!"

[ravkanwitch]

She takes out one of her bone lights, a small piece of bone with clear windows in it, filled with a fluorescent material that's inactive right now. "If you're ever in the dark and scared and you need a little light, just say zyoma¹ and give it a good shake." She holds it out to Sunny.

¹Ravkan for 'moon'.