Note to TheMaskedWriter:
I know I'm far from being a expert in english, since it's not my birth language and all, but isn't ‘octopi’ the plural of ‘octopus’?
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Samantha Twist, not wanting to stress the poor cecaelia more than was necessary, was about to let the Halberds to their own devices, when she suddenly remembered they hadn't announced their intention to settle in Moon Lake before already being in Moon Lake, and so probably hadn't acquired any lodgment. “If I may ask, where do you plan to live?”
“I'm sure my cousin could make place at ‘the manor’ for us the time we find our own home.” What every member of Mark's impressive family humorously called ‘manor’ was, it truth, residence Halberd. It was far from being a true manor, albeit still rather huge house. While, from a legal standpoint, it was mostly owned by Tabitha Halberd, Mark's cousin, a lot of their relatives were actually living there.
Alas, while Tabitha was born a normal, like Mark, she had become a werecat around two years ago. “You DO know that Tabitha is a werecat, right?”
“Buh!? I thought she was dating this Damocles guy?” Mark wondered aloud.
Massaging her temples, the town chancellor answered “If we could NOT speak of the headache that is Lucie, it would be nice.”