"I think they followed the cartoons here."
A dark figure bounces up, "THIS IS SO FUN! AND THIS MANDY PERSON IS SO FUNNY!"
"Are.. you..
hugging Mandy?"
I say.
"S-sorry about that." I say as Mandy walks away muttering.
"Oh.. Marv, Meet my deranged shadow."
"Psychopathic shadow, meet the Marvelous Miscreant."
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
― Hogfather