Week Six

[stagemanagers]

[Last week, in It's Curtains, the weather changed, and with it your fortune in Dads. Discord took Salieri out - or perhaps Salieri took Discord out - and left the survivors with that much less impulse control. Nonetheless, a visit from a new friend might have provided a little bit of much-needed hope?

On Sunday morning, you'll find that the other side of the second floor has opened up - as well as the actual intended path to reach the roof garden. You can finally stop climbing up that rope every time you want to have a picnic or secret lover's rendezvous!

Outside, the weather seems to have calmed down. It's sunny again, with rather a lot of clouds. Though it's warm, the atmosphere seems very...still.]


Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

(( 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. ))

Comments

[mayavericks]

No one should have to be alone, Elle.

So, what happened?

[mayavericks]

Well, if you are not trying to impress her specifically, then what is the problem with learning swordplay from me, instead?

[She lifts her brows. Despite everything, the trauma they've suffered and the memories they've regained, she still manages to look a little impish.]

Or is it simply that you don't like me?

[comeandfindme]

The lessons learned inside the woods
Will cost you something dear...

[ She repeats it quietly. With no accompanying melody. ]

It wasn't any of us who didn't make it back. It was my...my teach... [ ... ] It was Howl. The closest thing I have...to a father.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ That is weird, but Orpheus is too overjoyed by the notion that they're almost out to really register it. He throws his arms around Eurydice, elated and relieved. ]

We did it! We really did. Oh, Eurydice, we can go home. If we could convince Lord Hades, we all can stop the Wizard too, I'm sure of it.

[mayavericks]

Completely out of character, I know. How ever will they correct this dramatic change of mine?

[mayavericks]

Peregrine.

[Maya shifts all the more, so that it's not just one arm around her waist, but both. She crushes Peregrine to her, not just to offer warmth now, but reassurance. She isn't as alone as she might think. She isn't lost in the woods somehow.]

I'm so sorry.

[fourbutts]

You can keep being dramatic around me, I won't tell anyone. Promise.

[employeeoftheyear]

[He puts the mug down on the counter and shakes his head.]

I won't, Per. You're my friend and you've helped me through hard times. I wanna help with yours now.

Do you wanna talk about it?

[employeeoftheyear]

[He nervously laughs.]

Oh, you don't gotta worry about me, though! It's not really anything you guys aren't going through too!

[Despite the protest, he sits down next to her.]

[employeeoftheyear]

A bit! Like I know this one is yellow and shaped kinda funny!

[He's... pointing to the daffodils.]

[barberic]

I took my revenge on the man who sent me away. But that isn't what makes me a monster, no.

[He raises himself up from his practically supplicant position, though his head and shoulders remain bowed low.]

No, it's the dozens of men I butchered along the way. It's my own wife's bl--

[He has to take a breath, squeeze his eyes shut.]

Lucy didn't die when I was in Australia. Oh, she poisoned herself and it destroyed her mind, but God, help her, she didn't die... [The last word a wretched moan, he breaks off in a sob, his hands squeezed tight into fists on the earth in front of his knees.]

'Don't I know you?' she said. And I was too caught up in my fantasies of revenge to recognize her until she lay dead at my feet!

[employeeoftheyear]

Oh yeah, I can't picture her at all without Owl!

And I feel like Elsa would be a great librarian! She's always so sweet and quiet that she would be perfect for one!

[mayavericks]

I would say you are the best, but... I suspect you would scold me for putting Per down like that.

[fourbutts]

Boom. Now that's a romance subplot I could get into.

[ surely theyre official by now right? right??? ]

Gonna have to change some names if I don't want the vengeful ghost of Michael Eisner to destroy me, but. That's for later. Anyway, I think Uncle B gets to be in charge of the theater department, that only seems fair.

[fourbutts]

We can both be the best, it's okay.

[themuseabandonsyou]

[ Orpheus arrives with his guitar on his back, preparing to sit in the garden and play with the Balladeer again as best he can with the veil of mortality between them. He's... not surprised to find Benjamin here, or by the state he's in. He knew he and Antonio had become very close friends in their time here, and he hangs back for a moment at the edge of the garden, debating coming closer before deciding to announce his presence so as not to catch Benjamin by surprise. ]

On your feet
Do not let sadness bind you
All your grief
For those you've left behind you
Gods around us,
Looking on in mercy
Forgive our friends their trespasses and honor them their stories

[mayavericks]

That only means that we can go through it together.

I'm not going to ask for a hug twice, by the way.

[defyingfrigidity]

[Elsa feels a harsh pang in her chest... but then huffs in response.]

So cruel, Maya. You'd truly joke about such a thing now?

art room

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine really does not have her bearings today. She ends up wandering to the new area, and...sincerely not taking in anything. She smells paint, though. That's too strong to ignore. ]

...Art class? [ She peers in, still looking like a damn mess. ]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[Who wouldn't be impressed to teach someone like Elsa in the art of swordfighting? The Queen of Arendelle? Even though it's not really about that. It's about Elsa herself wanting to take a stand. To protect herself. And as much as Cass wanted to, she knew it was impossible to protect everybody.

The way Elsa seems to just beam at her. It's... Okay, okay. Stay cool.]

To the- Yeah! Yeah. Of course. Probably shouldn't be doing anything in here. I'll, uh, go grab my sword and meet you there in... five minutes?

[fourbutts]

[ Janis waves, across the room and a little too wrapped up in her painting to notice the state of Peregrine just yet. ]

My ancestral home.

rooftop garden

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine sits on the roof, watching the clouds roll by. She doesn't care to do anything else, unfortunately, so...it might be awhile before Orpheus realizes she's there, unless he's attentive. ]

[comeandfindme]

[ A part of you must stay behind,
Forever in the woods...

Fully wrapped in Maya's embrace, Peregrine trembles. It's a response, at least. It's something. ]

I'm a curse. H- he was fine...until he met me.

[mayavericks]

It is because I know and trust you that I can joke about it, Elsa-san.

[A small laugh.]

But I am serious. I think it would do you quite a bit of good if you came to Cassandra knowing some basics.

[mayavericks]

How could you have known?

[Maya... doesn't know what he'd experienced, or how different Lucy must have been. But if her mind had been destroyed then surely there would have been no trace of the woman he loved. It hardly would have been on him.

But that didn't excuse the fact that his hands were stained with blood. That he had killed anyway.]

Why did you -- I can understand the man who ruined your life. [Not really, but -- ] Why the others?