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Marlowe laughs and pauses to fan their face.

"Pretty much! I'm taking some online classes, so when I'm not working I'm…still working, mostly. But I hate keeping still. I always need something to work on. Like right now, I'm taking a photography course, but I'm taking a bike repair course as well, so I don't have to keep taking it into the shop."

They lift up the camera again and focus it on a leaf on the ground.

"If I do actually get some free time," they add, "I just like to write. Sometimes I write fake articles for this fantasy newspaper I made up—like last week, all the dragons went on strike. They use their fire to power everything, and people were just starting to take them for granted. And then there's this other thing I've been planning—not that I'll probably get to do it, but still—that's all about weird things that happen in the town. If I ever get the chance, I'd love to write my own column just about weird mysteries and unexplained…stuff."

Marlowe smiles and wipes their camera lens, looking a little wistful. Barely a moment later, however, they look at you with a gasp.

"Oh! Have you heard about the trees going missing in the forest?"

You nod your head, suddenly remembering the conversation you had with Tayo at last night's party.

"Yeah, it's pretty fascinating. If a bunch of workers are saying it's happening, I think I'd have to believe them. If I could, I'd kill to write about something like that."