More than anything she missed music. Dancing with herself while she mucked out stable stalls hadn't seemed that fun as a child, but now, stuck in a house full of things she didn't understand, deadly artifacts and weird things from monstrous dungeons -- tasked with bringing order from chaos that didn't even have words to label the dusty monstrosities piled on every floor and surface, she missed the radio. Even advertisements would have been better than the awful, oppressive silence of the wards. She couldn't even hear the birds fighting outside the window. The wards worked, there was no question of that. The whole building was itself structurally sound, no rot, no cobwebs, no bugs, no little mouse holes or chewed up bits of anything. The house was, nonetheless, firmly in a state that Miria would have called disrepair. The previous inhabitant had clearly given not one single damn about organizing his treasures, or even storing them safely. There we're globs of sticky gunk dripped across the floor, the beautiful desk was stained with ink, torn papers littered the floor. The worst of it was that she couldn't understand the language. Although the the central crystal had been able to translate for her once she connected to it, whatever translation magic it can manage did not work on its own controlling code, or at least that was how she thought of it. Like an artificial intelligence that knew python, but had never been taught to compile into assembly. A safety measure, perhaps, or maybe the underlying code of the universe was too complex even for an intelligence that could control all of the magic contrivances that kept the town safe. * Image: [[looking at birds out attic window.png]] * Meta: She's the cornfed daughter of a midwestern state senator, so it doesn't feel too out of line that she mucked out stable stalls during a 'horse girl' phase as a teenager. * Addendum: * fuck these fucking mice. but also fuck clutter. * [[compiling vs transpiling]] * References: * Shared: [Discord](https://discord.com/channels/954068589885923389/1081038327098122311/1269829391152713799)