April 24

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Right on the heels of her relief, restlessness seems to steal into Caroline. Klaus has absolutely no problem following her to the holodeck, if that is what she wants. They take Star, too, because the wolf has earned the right to run around the countryside, after spending so long in a cramped space with so many humans, and not mauling any of them.

They lock the door once they're inside, and since Caroline seems to hesitate which simulation to run, Klaus speaks up. "Computer. An isolated village in Eastern Europe. Twenty-first century Earth." That way Star can run as much as he wants, and they can have a feast if Caroline feels like it.

Klaus certainly feels like it.

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"But it's not real," she said, walking beside him, her flip-flops crunching on the grass. "That's why I can do anything." She means it in not just a If I wanted, I could summon a jetski way, but in how she sees the world. That here, she can feed and hunt and fight.

She turns, walking backwards, looking up at him, and she's honest. "I couldn't do this with real people. Not... right now." And she means all of it, her voice low. "Show me." And she doesn't even know what she's asking. "You said you'd teach me, show me something else." Because her normal method in these sorts of places of tearing out throats - that wasn't the right way, and she knows it.

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"Well, what did I show you last time?" Klaus asks, because if she's going to treat this like the training ground it is supposed to be, he is going to slip into the role of a teacher, starting with checking that she remembers what he taught her last.

Because that feed on the villager certainly didn't make it seem like she did.