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Galahad has collected every insect guide he could find in the mansion's library, and now he is camped out in a laboratory it seems to have created particularly for him and Susan -- the room has its own microscope, so that he can stop borrowing Claudius', and every single shelf is filled with glass habitats or mesh tents for keeping insects.

With his single-minded determination, he has filled many of them -- the tents house carefully potted foot-high milkweeds with tiny butterfly eggs affixed to their leaves, or potato plants he hopes will soon harbor potato beetles, or butterflies resting on the mesh. In the glass habitats there are millipedes, gleaming tenebrionid beetles, huge and bumbling scarabs, the dogbane leaf beetle Lancelot helped him capture, shiny blister beetles, leafhoppers in every shade of green, a pair of picasso bugs, an mantis he found in the greenhouse pretending to be an orchid flower.

Many of these insects stay only long enough to be identified and documented. Galahad and Susan between them take careful notes, make drawings, take pictures. When possible, they identify to species; more often, they identify genera or family, country of origin if they're lucky. Then they let their subjects go again. Neither of them has the time nor the inclination to feed and care for the immense diversity of insects living on the mansion's grounds. Potato beetles are one thing, but catching other tiny insects for the tiger beetles every morning is unsustainable. Galahad doesn't mind. Once he has a picture and the notes, the insect is saved, even if they don't see it again.

In the morning he trains with Lan Wangji, so it's an afternoon now when he's perched on a stool in front of the microscope, inspecting a chlaenius beetle to see whether it's possible to confirm a species. Unfortunately, these beetles are too fast and squirmy to put on a slide alive, so he's ethered it first. Now he's working diligently on his sketch, his pale head bowed as he studies the tiny body.

[Open especially to anyone who needs to be reassured that Galahad is back after the mod event and he's just fine now]

Date: 2024-07-24 07:48 pm (UTC)
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It feels less like worry and more like judgment to Gideon, but she doesn't really know the guy well. "I helped him build a wall for their basement, and that went okay. But I think mostly because Sagramore was there."

Date: 2024-07-24 08:43 pm (UTC)
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Gideon blinks—that's a new one. "Oh, huh. Why not?"

Date: 2024-07-25 04:15 pm (UTC)
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Gideon's eyebrows go up. Dramatic. "Betrayed him how?"

Date: 2024-07-25 04:44 pm (UTC)
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Oh, it's lovers-of-lovers drama. Well, the torture thing probably explains why Lan Wangji thinks Luo Binghe is so dangerous. She'll have to find out more about that—what kind of torture?—but she can tell from Galahad's tone he's not the one to ask. "Got it. Sagramore didn't mention Luo Binghe when he was walking me through the sex spider, but sounds like this was all before my time. Maybe he wasn't including past stuff."

Date: 2024-07-25 04:56 pm (UTC)
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She grins at him. "Yeah. He and Laertes are the body, and then everyone they're fucking is all the little legs."

Date: 2024-07-25 05:08 pm (UTC)
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"They don't have lots of little legs?"

Date: 2024-07-25 05:15 pm (UTC)
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"Well, yeah, it's a metaphor. Like the hermit crab, but much, much grosser." They've made it outside, at this point.

Date: 2024-07-26 01:46 pm (UTC)
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Gideon sighs, shaking her head, comically dramatic. "If you can't accept me at my sex spider, you don't deserve me at my hermit crab metaphor."

Date: 2024-07-26 02:15 pm (UTC)
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"Huh. Then—yeah, it's a meme." She knocks their shoulders together. "Not saying you actually don't deserve me."

Date: 2024-07-26 02:48 pm (UTC)
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"Exactly." Gideon is, like, weirdly relieved—she hates the social stumbling-around she's always doing around here, like everyone has this whole web of relationships and if she steps wrong or likes the wrong person it's gonna get her all tangled up in shit. Hey, that's another reason for the spider metaphor. But Galahad's not mad at her for not reacting right to his explanation about Sagramore, and if he wanted anything from her about it she's pretty sure he would just tell her. She slings an arm around his shoulder and messes up his hair a little, not quite managing to swallow the hiss as it accidentally stretches the wounds in her side.

Date: 2024-07-26 02:55 pm (UTC)
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"Ah, it's not a big deal. I'm good." She hesitates. "Did you, uh, meet the other Tally, on—whatever we're calling it, alternate version day?"

Date: 2024-07-26 03:10 pm (UTC)
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"Not as much as she wanted to," says Gideon with a little smirk.

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