Fourth floor common room, Wednesday morning

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Rapunzel was feeling pretty good this morning, and as part of that she was trying to get back into a regular routine. She'd gotten up early, tidied up her room, and almost immediately headed to the common room where she'd made a huge batch of muffins.

And now that said muffins were in the oven (and smelled positively delicious as they were baking!) Rapunzel had a moment to sit down and brush her hair. A few moments.

A lot of moments.

This could take a while.

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Rapunzel nodded enthusiastically. "All the time!" Then she shrugged with a helpless sort of grin. "Though, to be honest, I started doing it out of boredom. There weren't all that many things to do back home." As much as she missed home, that part, at least, wasn't true in Fandom.

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"Where do you come from?" Dolf asked, as he waited patiently to be fed.

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Everyone seemed to ask that question. Rapunzel was going to have to come up with a better answer than the one she had.

"Just... home?" She set the muffin tins on the counter and flailed her hands a bit inside the oven mitts. "I never thought it needed a name before, so..."

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"So no name," Dolf said, easily. "What was it like? Was it far away, or close? What were the people like?"

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"Well, it was just me and mother. But the view was great!" Being up in a tower had its advantages, after all! "And I had plenty of time to myself to read, and sew, and bake, and paint." And read, and sew, and bake, and paint. And read, and sew, and bake, and paint.

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"There weren't any villages nearby?" Dolf wanted to know, as he walked closer to inspect the muffins.

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"Not any that I saw?" The tower had been pretty carefully hidden. For protection, of course.

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"That must have been pretty lonely," Dolf said.

Before realising what he'd said, and shutting his mouth.

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"Well, I had Pascal," Rapunzel pointed out. "And mother." She hadn't known to be lonely, in all honesty.

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"Who's Pascal?"

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As if he knew he was being discussed (he did), a chameleon scrambled out from underneath Rapunzel's hair to perch on top of her head and give Dolf a seriously evaluating look. Rapunzel was short enough that this almost put the lizard on eye-level with Dolf, which made for a (slightly) more intimidating stare/glare.

Though there was only so intimidating you could be when you were a tiny little chameleon.

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Dolf blinked repeatedly at the little green thing. "...You have a gecko?"

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Now Pascal looked truly, truly unimpressed. "Chameleon," Rapunzel corrected with a giggle. She reached up to gently tap at Pascal's foot with one finger. "And you know he didn't mean anything by that," she told him.

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Dolf pulled a face that was a little apologetic. "Sorry, chameleon," he said. "I know, you can probably... do more stuff?"

Thanks, Dolf.

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While Rapunzel seemed amused by this attempt at a recovery, Pascal just kept that unimpressed expression.

"Actually," Rapunzel said, trying to step in and save Dolf, "Pascal is very talented!"

"Isn't that right?"

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"He's a chameleon. I hear they have a lot of talents," Dolf said, recovering a little more. "Does he like muffins?"

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Oh, muffins! Pascal perked up slightly. Were there muffins?

Not that he was impressed, Dolf! Don't get him wrong on that!

Just: muffins.

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"And he can have some bread when it's done," Dolf said encouragingly, nodding at the rising mess up on the counter.

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This was apparently acceptable since Pascal nodded and lowered his head to take a little nap. Or at least pretend to.

Rapunzel laughed. "That was pretty clever of you," she complimented Dolf.