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—oh, that's clever!

[ she follows along. ]

[Flushes a little, pleased, and ducks his head.]

I mean. No promises it'll work. But it's worth a shot, yeah?

[He slows to a stop when they reach the clothes.]

...okay. You're probly gonna have to sit down, I think. Or lay down.

Ah, all right!

[ she dutifully lies down next to the clothing racks, in approximately a corpse pose. ]

[Just pulls a bunch of stuff down off the racks and starts dumping clothes on her. When everything's done by the head, he hesitates a second.]

I'm gonna cover your face for a sec, okay?

Ah, that's all right, it's fine.

[ she closes her eyes and mouth, though, so that she doesn't like, get an eyeball full of fabric. ]

[Adds one more shirt.]

...okay. Completed buried.

extremely buried

[Uncovers her again.]

...kay. Pretty sure you can come out now.

[ she levers herself up into a sitting position, shedding stray costume pieces. ]

Thank you—I really appreciate it.

Is there anything you need, in return?

Sure, if you don't mind.

[Hands his card over, then starts hanging up all these costumes.]

Anything on there you'd be cool with?

Oh, plenty, probably... would playing fetch be useful? Since you've got a lot of that row covered.

Uh, sure. If it's not super weird...?

No, not at all! It's really just playing catch, isn't it?

I mean... I guess that's true, huh.

I didn't think about it that way.

It's pretty normal, I think, so don't worry about it at all. Um...

[ she picks up a rubber ball from one of the bins of supplies. ]

I guess... go get it?

[ and she throws it in a gentle overhand. ]