Iris could, quite literally, go anywhere she wanted. Distances in the physical world meant little to her, as she spent much of her time in the void where reality ceased to exist. Time was another factor that meant very little to her. Her essence stretched across everywhere that ever had been and ever would be, and with a mere thought she could jump into different points of the universe. She did not live in the same world as everyone else, and she could see everything that could have been, even dragging such ideas into reality itself.
Yet despite all this, she spent most of her time in the physical realm in this one specific house. Or rather, she spent it in a quantum location that suited her needs, and this location happened to have a house built on top of it. This specific point in spacetime was comfortable, easy to slip into and calming towards Iris's tumultuous mind. She stayed here because its position in the universe managed to reach a perfect balance and harmony for every one of her senses.
However, something was threatening that balance. Something that the culprit should have known better for. Iris did her best to suppress her anger as she folded the universe and punctured a hole in her destination, allowing her to warp directly towards the intrusion. She had to stop the only balance of perfection that ever had existed or ever would from being toppled and shattered by the ignorant, like a child knocking over a beautiful castle made of sand.
Somebody was messing with the air conditioning.
"Kassandra. You are currently tampering with the temperature regulation unit. You have been specifically asked multiple times not to do this."
Kassandra was kneeling down next to the air conditioner, using a couple of April's tools to unscrew the front and examine the wiring. April was standing just behind her, watching the scene unfold.
Thankfully, Kassandra ceased her work at once. "Yeah, I'm sorry," she said with a sigh. "I was just curious to see if I could manage to fix the AC with human tools. I needed the distraction, and it just popped into my mind."
Iris was always confused by her housemates referring to the unit as 'broken.' It functioned precisely the way it needed to, and if it worked in the manner that it had been intended to, the house would be too cold.
"Please cease with this immediately. If you need to spend your time in another fashion, perhaps I can assist you."
Iris glanced up towards April, who was being uncharacteristically quiet.
"Isn't April the one who typically puts an end to your chaotic whims?"
"Well, that's part of the problem," Kassandra responded. "I was just messing around with April, and then something went wrong. Now she's acting all weird and I don't know what's wrong with her or how to fix it. So I'm doing something else to procrastinate."
That was a sentiment Iris understood. She couldn't help but feel some pity for Kassandra - while April treated all three of them like they were equal, Iris was by far the most powerful. She was painfully aware of this, and she knew that Melonie and Kassandra were aware of it as well, even if they pretended otherwise.
"Very well then. I shall attempt to help you with this. Tell me, what exactly went wrong with April?"
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Kassandra put her tools down and looked over at April. "Okay, so this time I actually mean it when I say it wasn't my fault. So there's this thing called the Flickerlight, right? It's supposed to be for calming wild animals. It doesn't work on sentient beings. But when I showed it to April for a joke, she went all silent like that! Now she just responds when spoken to. Right April?"
April remained perfectly still as she spoke. "This one is currently awaiting orders."
"See what I mean? If she was like this all the time we wouldn't get yelled at nearly as often."
Kassandra had a good point. However, Iris had an idea for a solution.
"Some points in time are less fixed than others. Allow me to view the branching paths, to see if there was a more favourable outcome."
She slipped out of existence, taking a moment to examine all the various paths reality could have taken.
There was one where Kassandra hadn't used the Flickerlight, but that would only delay the problem and have her do the exact same thing in the future. She saw another reality where Kassandra actually knew how her device worked and why it was affecting April, but that ironically led to April trying to fix the AC unit later on down the line. Finally, there was a timeline where April had enough self-confidence and backbone to break free of the Flickerlight on her own. However, if Iris pulled that reality into existence, April wouldn't blush and start sputtering the same way when Iris offered to peg her with a strapon.