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[higginbottom]

Esther has, well, only sort of gotten used to the Mansion and its ways. She's still frustrated by being stuck there - after all, she survived almost dying. Doesn't she deserve something better than a small room with a small window?

Still, she's thankful to be alive. One morning, when she opens her window and looks out over the Mansion grounds, the air comes in, shockingly cold, and Esther remembers - she's here, alive and awake and ready for anything. She breathes in and out, and sighs with a sort of strange contentment that probably won't last long, but hey. She'll take it.

She gets dressed, wearing slacks for once (she decided to try it out, as she is in fact, a very modern woman, thank you very much) and a pretty floral blouse. She makes her way downstairs, her saddle shoes tap-tap-tapping against the stairs.

"I feel very much in a good mood today," Esther announces, to no one in particular. "Is that strange? Should I be worried?"

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[quote_gentle_unquote]

"Are you not usually?" asks Susan, who is pleased to finally have an excuse to introduce herself to one of the newer arrivals.

[temnota]

"Possibly if the Mansion likes to make your day difficult," Aleksander teased gently. "But it's entirely possible that this only happens to me."

[sagramore]

Sagramore has thought, over the last few months, about Esther, and worried about her, so it's a relief to see her out and about when he arrives for his daily dry goods liberation, and looking more or less all right.

"Esther! How are you?"

[vineleaves]

"I'm very glad to hear it," Dionysus says as he rounds a corner, very much aware that she didn't expect him to hear it at all. "I think you should celebrate," he says in his usual warm voice. "It's good to see you, my dear, how have you been settling in?"

[untamedantinous]

"I suppose that depends on your mood in general," Enjolras remarks absently, on his way from doing mysterious things with the printing press. What were they? No one is certain, but he is definitely ink-stained.