Helena (thinking): Not really. We have to make sure to gets lots of footage. Background, any sculptures that sort of thing…

Kai (looking at Lisa): Speaking of sculptures, didn’t you promise me a trip to Athens?

Lisa (wincing): Kai, once things settle down, I promise…

Dylan (glancing): Backhoe or shovel?

Kai (flipping her off): How about a body bag?

Lisa (shaking her head): Do they make them your size?

Peggy (smiling): Touche.  

Kai (grumbling): No, but we can always stuff you and a few other people in one…

Bette (taking a bite of her food): I’ve always wondered that?

Tina (nearly choking): Bette that’s…

Helena (leaning back): What do you have your Doctorate in, again?

Lisa (proudly): What doesn’t she have a Doctorate in, is the question?

Peggy (remembering): Forensic Psychology and Pathology, and a Master’s in Forensic Psychological Profiling and Mortuary Science am I right?

Kai (nodding): Yes…

Lisa (teasing): Don’t forget about the Associates in Computer Science.

Peggy (trying to do the math): When did you start college?

Kai (shrugging): It’s a long, painful story (her jaw clenching.).  

Lisa (squeezing her shoulder): Relax…

Kai (leaning into the touch): Sorry, it brings back some pretty awful memories.

Bette (knowing all to well what they could do): Look at you now? I can understand how you feel, my mother died when I was twelve, my father was one of the biggest hot shot lawyers in the country and the world’s biggest hypocrite. Most of both sides of the family wanted nothing to do with me because I was biracial and then well you know the rest.  

Tina (rubbing Bette’s arm): You can’t dwell on the past, you can only take each day and do your best.

Helena (sipping her coffee): That’s true.  

Dylan (taking her hand and kissing the back of it): I love you…

Bette (wondering): Peggy, how much of the Castle’s original designs and furnishing are left.

Peggy (thinking; knowing why Bette changed the subject): Most of it. Yes, here and there some pieces of it were sold off or other but eventually brought back. Then the castle was shut down for a while because of rumors of strange occurrences or other. (Finishing her coffee) the artwork I hear is spectacular, several paintings as I’ve heard seem so life like.