itscurtains | Week Four

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week 4

Week Four

[Last week, Gershwin High School Academy University saw its very first intentional murder! What a milestone! And right after Spongebob's No Murder party, too - that doesn't seem like it bodes very well for anybody's future.

You all wake up this morning with yet another new memory returned to you. You'll also find that the school's external doors have now unlocked. Congratulations! You're free! Unfortunately, you also seem to be entirely in the middle of nowhere. So maybe it's more of a symbolic victory.

Still, you should look around and do some investigation! Maybe you'll find a fun surprise.]

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(( Be sure to submit your memory regains and your AC for this week! Hester's office hours and the merch booth also remain available! ))

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[ She hates how she can feel the sad almost shy smile that curls onto her face. ]

I believe...if it's possible, he would do it. ...He said he wouldn't— [ ... ] We promised...we wouldn't leave each other alone.

[ And then she did, anyway. If she tried talking with him more that night, if she stayed with him, what if, what if. ]

[Yeah...not a very good promise to try to make in a place like this.]

Then...I'd take him at his word. Who knows...maybe it is possible.

[Varian looks out into the lobby once they've reached it, his arms still full of this or that.]

It's better to hope for that than the alternative.

[ It was a horrible promise! But in the moment, she really thought she could keep it. ]

I just wish there was a way to... You know, to tell for sure. Like...those carvings everywhere. Are they...them? Or something else? And how can we can ever make sure they see them?

[ She's so tired and so frustrated. ]

[...]

There...there has to be some kind of way we can reach out to them. I don't know how, but...I don't think trying would hurt, if we ever decided to.

We've got to. [ She sets the penguin statue and the various other trinkets down in the lobby. ] I'll read...every ghost story out there, if it can help reach them.

[Ghost stories...there must be a bunch in the library, now that she says that.]

I'll help you, Peregrine. Anything I need to do, you just let me know.

...I know. I will.

[ For a moment, she's a little...overcome? They aren't really carrying anything right now, so she takes advantage of that, and hugs him, tight and quick. ]

I know you will. Thanks, Varian.

[Oh. He wasn't expecting the hug, and it actually takes his breath away for a moment. Fortunate that they weren't carrying anything, because he would have dropped it.

It's one of the last amicable hugs they'll ever share, not that either of them knows it now. Still...after a moment of being surprised, he'll return the gesture, resting his head against Peregrine's shoulder for a minute.]

O-oh, it's...it's nothing. Don't worry about it.

[ There's something tragic to this that neither of them know. In the moment, it's Peregrine deciding to reach out to a friend, one she realizes only now how much she cares about. ]

It's not to me.