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"Nice to see y'all in your proper bodies this week," Sookie said with a smile, waving at the assembled group. "Hope Homecoming didn't wear you out too much, because today's a fun vocabulary day: candy! And Halloween, which I'm not sure they actually celebrate in France, but more importantly: candy. Des bonbons.

"In my world, the French consider it an 'imported holiday,' and it's only celebrated by certain demographics," Emma added. "Halloween in France is usually celebrated by young people in costumes going to parties at friends' places, parties or clubs. The costumes themselves tend to be traditionally scary creatures such as vampires, ghosts and witches, rather than costumes like princesses, superheroes, or the 'sexy' ones you find at the store here. Which are tacky, and none of you ought to wear."

"Trick-or-Treating is known as des bonbons ou des coups de bâton. The French, being the French, have to come up with phrases of their own for the holiday -- such as un feu follet for Jack O' Lantern -- because using the American ones would be un-French."

"Even," Sookie added, "if our terms are cuter. But anyway, work with the vocab! And feel free to look up the French version of your costume, if you've planned ahead to Sunday."

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"And even if you didn't, would you really use one given to you by a neighbour?" Rilla replied.

...he had never thought of that.

"Ew," Bobby said, his face expressive in his disgust.

"Exactly," Rilla agreed. "People really give out copies of Three Musketeers?"

Someone wasn't entirely caught up with modern candy.

Bobby shook his head, giggling a little but completely not at her. "No! I mean, I like the book a lot, but it's a candy bar! I forgot you were from history. It's chocolate covering this squishy chocolate stuff and so good."

"I shall have to try one, then," Rilla decided. "We mostly get treats that people can make at home."

"Maybe you need to have a whole candy introduction," he said thoughtfully. "M&Ms and Skittles and Snickers and Three Musketeers and Heath bars and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and Peeps and everything." For a kid whose mom didn't let eat processed sugar, Bobby had candy down.

"I suppose it's a good thing I have my own toothbrush, then," Rilla laughed. "Should we share with a common room some evening or keep it all to ourselves?"

"Probably share," Bobby said. "Otherwise we'll end up with stomachaches and everyone will point and laugh."

"That would be very unkind of them," Rilla declared earnestly.

"We'd kind of deserve it," he pointed out. "I mean, if we were greedy and ate all that candy and didn't share."

"True," Rilla agreed slowly. "I don't think I could eat that much, really."

Bobby gave her a little grin. "You haven't tried all the good candy yet though."

"There sounds like a great deal to try," Rilla replied. "Of course, I can't tell Susan at home that any of it is better than her fudge."

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