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The door, as is usual, opens on an alleyway in New York City. Overhead the sky is grey. The air is unseasonably warm; Ray wrinkles his nose. "It'd be nice if the planet could remember that this is November," he says. "Okay, Matilda. This is where I came in."

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[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

"Cereal does too count. But yes, I am. It's been a while since breakfast."

About six hours, in fact. ...She was doing calculus. It was fun. She lost track of time.

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"'kay. Because there's some leftover Chinese food upstairs from the other day."

"Ecto, Matilda's a guest," says Ray. "We'll get her something new."

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

"I have no particular objection to leftover Chinese food," she says, giggling. "But thank you!"

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"Slimer's probably gotten into the leftovers by now," Ray says. "We'll go out for something. He's been on a rampage today."

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

"Slimer?"

No, she hasn't heard of him. Or if she has, she forgot. Possibly her ability to forget things like Slimer says something about her.

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"The first ghost we ever busted," says Ray. "I'm reasonably sure that he's actually a spiritual personification of the concept of appetite rather than the ghost of somebody dead. Those happen sometimes. He's a class five free-roaming non-terminating phantasm, more simply described as a green flying booger with arms and a bottomless stomach."

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

"Charming. Yes, I think you may've mentioned him before. It must have somehow slipped my mind."

She tilts her head.

"So. Food?"

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"Food," Ray says. "Pizza sound reasonable? We can usually distract the spud by ordering a sacrificial pie."

[precocioustilda.livejournal.com]

"Pizza sounds entirely reasonable!"

Matilda lived off waffles for several months straight. The concept of nutrition is one with which she is extremely well acquainted, but only in the most theoretical of senses.

Also the idea of sacrificial pie makes her giggle.