itscurtains | Week Five

[Last week, you had your very first minor body pileup! Granted, the Balladeer's death was entirely unrelated to anything, but at least he died as he lived - getting completely fucked up in some kind of carnival-themed hellscape. Only two days later, another terrible accident took Rina and Varian both from you. It's just been one of those weeks, huh? At least you got to add both of their corpses to your weird growing collection!

Again, you'll wake up this morning with another new snippet of memory. You'll also find that the stairs in the lobby are no longer blocked. You can only access one part of the second floor, but it seems like there's some neat stuff up there!

Outside, a few things seem to have changed. For one, the weather has turned - it'll be overcast this week, with periodic rain and even scattered thunderstorms. For another, the bushes around that rock out by the football field have bloomed. That's nice.

Get to it, friends! I'm sure everything will be fine this week!]

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(( Be sure to submit your memory regain and your AC for this week! As always, Hester's office hours and the merch booth remain available. ))

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Oh, hi! [ Eurydice smiles back -- bright and wide, similar to how she was after she saw his opera. ]

Wow! That's so great, because you're one of my closest friends. [ She pats him on the head, clumsy but incredibly well-meaning. ] I always thought making friends would be really scary? But you're not scary at all.

You know, before I came here, I didn't really have any friends. [frankly] Not really. Not ones that wouldn't metaphorically stab you in the back the first chance that came by.

[he hums a bit as she pats his head]

But you wouldn't do that, because you're not scary either. [he pokes her gently in the leg] You're like a stone. Sturdy. Good for leaning.

Yeah, people will do that where I'm from, too. Usually if they're trying to rob you.

[ you POKE eurydice???? you poke her like the facebook?????????

(it makes her smile) ]

Mmmm, nope! I wouldn't do that to you, ever. Ever ever ever. If someone did that to you, I'd get really mad, and steal all their stuff, and also hit them really hard. [ eurydice please you are 5'2" and malnourished ]

[sldkhfs that makes him smile so much, turning his face a bit into her shoulder like he feels like he has to hide it]

I want to see that. You would knock them down for certain.

[ eurydice leans in closer and says, a touch wistfully: ]

I hope you can. Even if we make it out of here, I don't know if I'd still be alive. Probably not? But if I am, you should bring me to Court. I bet lots of the people there are terrible, and have lots of stuff to steal.

I will. I absolutely will. I would like to see you there, in Court, giving them what-for.

[he chuckles] You know, I made an agreement with Discord. I thought...I thought the first place I would ask to go would be to get you and Orpheus. You should be somewhere better...somewhere where you don't have to worry about food, or where to sleep.

[ somewhere where you don't have to worry about food, or where to sleep. Eurydice is quiet for a moment, before whispering: ]

Really? You can do that?

[ She'd be much more skeptical if she wasn't this high. But, since that's not the case, she doesn't even wait for Antonio to answer. Instead, she shifts to wrap him in a tight hug, grateful and desperate and overjoyed. ]

I don't -- I never thought -- [ it's too much. She's already choking up. So she stops there, and switches to: ] Thank you.

[Salieri's startled as she turns and hugs him--but his arms are going around her in turn, immediately, holding her tight]

We'll come find you. Once we get out of here--when Discord has his powers back--we'll come find you and take you away, I have an apartment in the city, or we can get you a place in the countryside, I have some money saved up, or I can take some new commissions--[he swallows a bit]

--I want you to have everything you deserve.

[ Does he understand what this means? This offer...it's very different from the shelter and stability Lord Hades tempted her with. Hades offered her security in exchange for her life, but what Antonio is proposing is a far cry from that. It's a home. A real one. It's all she's ever wanted, and it's not something she ever thought she'd get.

She hugs even tighter. This time, it's her turn to hide her face, shutting her eyes for a moment.

When she finally pulls away enough to look back up at Antonio, her smile is big and broad and her eyes are a little damp. There aren't words she can give to him, to express how she feels -- how grateful, how loved. Instead, she swallows, her heart so full it's bursting, and she nods. ]

[Eurydice nods, and something in Salieri's chest expands, feels lighter]

I know there's some very lovely cottages in the countryside, but still close to the city. Perhaps I could ask his Majesty for a bit of land on his estate; I'm positive he would be happy to acquiesce, if I explain it to him. He's an eccentric, anyway, and very kind. And you'd be close enough to the city to visit when you wanted to.

[ His Majesty? If Eurydice didn't know better, she'd think Antonio was joking. (Tomorrow morning, she'll know that he wasn't, but that his plan was impossible anyway, as these things tend to be.)

Tonight, though, she's just happy to be happy, and to let herself dream a little. Eurydice leans against Antonio's shoulder again, a happy, wistful expression on her face. ]

And you could come visit too, whenever you wanted. It'd be quieter than Court, and I'm sure the sky is huge, in the country -- you could compose all you wanted, without having to worry about the people at Court stabbing you in the back.

[he'll tilt his head, then, leaning his temple against the top of her head]

That sounds lovely. [he sighs a little, wistful, almost] We could have tea in the garden.

Yeah. That'd be nice. [ a little sigh, a smile. ] Do lots of flowers grow, in Vienna? [ not many are tough enough to still survive, where she's from. ]

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