"Hi Purgatory, my name is Melanie. I live here with Leandra now."
*.....looks quickly (and rather furtively) around.....* "But, um, don't tell her I wrote to you ok?"
"Anyway, I know she's sorry she hasn't written to you in a long time. See, she's kinda embarrassed about her last letter to you. She was getting the place pretty for Christmas, and was frazzled untangling all those lights, so she wasn't thinking very carefully about some of the stuff she said. ("Blithered on and on about" is how she put it, I think...........)"
"So she said some things about how interesting it must be to be half-demon, and to have demons for a brother and sister, and right after that they went and got mean to you! And hurt you! Real bad, is what she said. She felt really bad about it, and wanted to write back and say something to you, but she really didn't know what to say."
"And then some time passed, and some more time passed, and suddenly five whole years had gone by!"
*.......is distracted........* "But I can write to you. I haven't written to anybody before, it's kinda fun!"
*.......reaches offscreen.......* "Um......."
"I have a cat........." *....looks at the stuffed cat, then looks up again, then back at the cat........*
*......looks up again.......* "Um..... He's a nice cat. His name is Terwilliger. Um..... He doesn't talk much. But we play a lot of games together. (He's not very good at it, but don't tell him I told you.......)"
*........stands up........*
*....shuffles the cat around aimlessly as she talks......* "Anyway, we're really.... um, I'm rea.... they're really glad you liked your present that Christmas. It looks very nice on you! Very pretty, and you're very pretty too." *.....blushes.....*
"I hope we can be friends. Will you write back to me? That would make me really happy!"
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