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@joelle-stone
Hey welcome back, can’t wait to meet your characters! You have an illustrator? Sweet! Have you gotta book out yet? What’s your WIP about? Can’t wait to meet your character and your’s @wingiby-iggiby! *sheepishly sinks behind desk getting too excited

@everybody
Hey what are our characters like around normal people? Maybe there are inhabitants of the castle that the castle invented to feed off their reactions and the people send us ‘heroes’ on missions? Or what if the castle copies a wraith of everybody whose ever been in the castle so like we’d have fake evil Colmas and Brins and Erins and all about?

Rosario assessed each person. Some ‘lookin’ gorgeous’ guy who seemed to have just arrived, a small little fairy flitting around, two magic wizard people fading off into the background. Four in all, six counting herself and Ehud. It was off in her line of work, but Rosario couldn’t read people well. At least not as well as Ehud, so she relied on reading his responses to everyone. Use every tool available, each person right now was a potential asset, but frankly, she was the girl they hired to knock off and disappear people not so much sweet talk them. Rosario had it in her but it wasn’t her favorite mode.
Without thinking, she grabbed Ehud’s wrist and yanked it out of her pocket. He stared up at her with a poorly concealed hurt look, trying to hide the pack of cigarettes in his hand.
“I thought you’d–”
“I can do what I want, yes?” Rosario returned snappishly. She turned his hand over and took back the little box. It was that expression, she could read it all over his face, pulling apart all her emotions, turning them all around like if she blinked he’d catch another million nuances she’d been hiding. Pursing her lips, she tucked the cigars back in her pocket and turned her attention back to formulating a plan.
“Are you mad at me?” Ehud drooped his head and squeezed his fingers around her hand. It really was impossible to actually pull off lying to him. She let out a breath, dropping her other hand on his head for a moment.
“Yes, but, esta no importa,” she said “later.”
Letting her hand fall to her side, she turned away suddenly running her fingers off her thick bangs for a second. Odd, sort of not-feeling crept through her. Rosario was sure she should feel something here but she didn’t. So she lapsed back into the job.
“Fine, who do I have to kill, carino?” Ehud will never know this, but carino means boyfriend, which was something she liked to pretend.
“Ahhhhhhhg, why is everything murder for you?!” Dramatically, he buried his head in her shoulder while clutching her arm. She ignores this.
“How many supplies do you have available?” In reply, Ehud grumbled something incoherent and held up the plastic bag he’d been carrying around. Peering in, Rosario frowned back at him.
“And you can cook it?”
“…fldkghekh…”
“That’s what I thought.” she said. With an exaggerated moan he lifts his chin onto her shoulder theatrically. But it only took him two seconds to bob up with a new thought.
“I’m hungry.”
“What’s new?” Rosario quirked an eyebrow at him when he started to rummage through his pockets. Meeting her gaze, Ehud gave a sheepish grin and buried himself into his shoulders.
“I’m gonna cook it.” He had that mischievous light that automatically made it ten times more likely he’d cause another disaster, so Rosario’s strategy was to rechannel that energy to something more apt.
“Ai, look, I need you to do something for me, idiota.” This always got his attention, he was always excited to help out and Rosario didn’t give him a lot of opportunity to do that because she greatly valued her autonomy.
“Yeah?”
“You know these people a little more than me, yes? Go see who’s a psychopath.” This was useful information because she expected he’d come back with a thorough assessment of everyone here which she in turn could convert to assets and liabilities.
“Oh…” Ehud looked disappointed but he visibly pushed that aside “oh, I trust the fairy.”
With that he darted off, seemingly trying to pick who to talk to first. Meantime Rosario glanced around for ‘the fairy’, who was buzzing around the selfsame sloppy attempt at smartness she’d seen in all the newbies in her line of work.
“Hey you,” she called, catching his attention so she motions him over with her head. Finding a rather large stone off by the pool, Rosario sat down and crossed her legs with a relaxed, easy grace. She didn’t need to impress anybody, in fact it was more fun when they underestimated her. “You can get into some pretty small places without getting noticed, can’t you?”
She could use some eyes and ears around here, it was certainly something to file away for later. But right now was to turn as many people into allies before they become enemies. Thanks to Ehud, everyone within a ten mile radius knew she was Rosario, his best friend and there was no telling how much else he’d spilled about her already so it’d be best to stay as up front as possible.
“Rosario de Vera Cruz,” She folded her arms and watched him with a friendly warmth “You?”

Ehud stuffed his hands in his pockets, stifling an impish grin. It was the first time in this entire Lord Castle thing that he actually felt safe. Rosario, the real Rosario, was still alive! He didn’t kill her! Since she had more common sense than him, Ehud felt secure enough he couldn’t possibly get into all that much trouble.
Everybody else he had sort of a sense of since they’d been around for a bit, but he didn’t know exactly what to make of the new guy who appeared about the same time as Rosario. So Ehud tripped over to him and waved.
“Hi, I’m Ehud,” he chirped “are you a psychopath?”
He smiled his most artlessly angelic smile and pretended he had absolutely no idea why he shouldn’t ask that.