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One must imagine the confusion you felt, and the unquestioning relief, when a mysterious stranger took an interest in you, leading to you to a secret exit at the black hole's NADIR PROMONTORY. In exchange, she made you promise that you would send a MAID to SOOTHE her PROBLEMS. Soothe, you said? Do you mean like...? She stood there staring at you for a while, the syrupy purple of her eyes rippling slowly, saying nothing. Then she said, no, not like, sexually. Like, someone who can soothe my problem, you know. My problem of being dead. You said, isn't there a less convoluted way of saying that? Then she stared at you, unblinking, eyes rippling syrupy purple. Then in a desperate bid to break the unbearable silence she created you said yes, of course! You knew just the perfect maid.

And of course, the rest would be history; a purpose-hungry Jane would solicit the help of the Nannasprites, enter the black hole through a magic window, and, in a feat of great personal evolution, bring Meulin back to life without a corpse. She was a strange character, that Meulin, not at all like the Nepeta she supposedly was related to. Direct, vacuous, unnerving. Like she was always talking past you. You've had no contact with her since then, as you are not part of the STRAIGHT GIRLS GROUP CHAT. You wonder what she's up to; probably nothing all that relevant.

(With her mind on her money, and her money on her mind.)

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