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[There's a lot of food in the kitchen! Plates of rice, bowls of stew, non-goose meat, vegetables—it's almost like a small feast for three. It seems like dessert is baking in the oven as well.]

Feel free to help yourself, if you're hungry!

[Outside, the client wrings her hands, desperate to convince Lux of her step-mom's evil ways. The dad has gone off to lounge on a couch somewhere.]

Then how do you explain her looking up a recipe for goose liver!?

[The step-mom apparently overheard this, as she yells from the kitchen:]

I-I'm allowed to look up any recipe I want! That doesn't make me a murderer! Why can't you believe I love your father...?