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[pandion]

"Faking you wouldn't even be hard, I bet. 'Renée, I mean, Mom, are you going to Staples soon, I need more notebooks,'" she says in an uncanny imitation of Bella's cadences.

[instar]

Bella coughs, and replies, "Mo-o-om, can I have an advance on my allowance, like, twenty dollars, I know bad planning and forethought and adult financial skills but it's important really!" in a likewise spooky mimicry.

[hold_infinity]

Robin cracks up.

[pandion]

"But you look way more like Mom and I look like Dad, we couldn't really fool anyone."

[instar]

"You look more like Renée when you actually smile."

[hold_infinity]

"Unless you actually switched bodies," says Robin.

[instar]

"Now that would be an interesting trick."

[pandion]

"Yeah, no kidding," sporfles Andi.

[hold_infinity]

"Potentially fun," says Robin. "I wouldn't mind switching bodies with, say, Ethan. If I knew I'd get my own back."

[pandion]

"What would you do? Do I even wanna know?"

[hold_infinity]

"What do you think I'd do?" she laughs.

[pandion]

"I am not sure I wanna know!"

[hold_infinity]

"Oh, probably dress up in pretty clothes. And then play strip poker."

[pandion]

"Pffff. You are way more adventurous than me."

[hold_infinity]

"I'm more adventurous than a lot of people," says Robin. "I'd say 'than most', but now I've met Trouble."

[pandion]

"Oh, if you didn't know, him and Ethan are having sex. I mean, not right now. Possibly right now actually but that's not what I meant. In case that's relevant to know."

[hold_infinity]

"Thanks," she says. "I wasn't completely sure. Although I have seen them kissing while mostly naked, so it's not a big leap."

[pandion]

"I guess it wouldn't be."

[instar]

"I take it the strip poker was fun for all."

[hold_infinity]

Robin grins. "Very."

[instar]

"We both lost embarrassingly to Trouble at the non-strip version, the day he brought us pie, even when we ganged up on him insofar as the rules of poker allow."

[hold_infinity]

"Yeah, he's pretty good," says Robin. "I'm better."

[pandion]

"Supposedly poker is a game of skill? But then I get bad cards. I'm probably missing something."

[hold_infinity]

"Oh, a lot of it is luck. But the rest is how you handle your luck," says Robin.

[pandion]

"Like how?"