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. ))

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woods

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[A great vibration passes through the earth, moving towards Peregrine with each heavy footfall. Shuffling. Closer.]

Peregrine?

[A whinny. Does Cassandra whinny? No, of course not. But it is definitely her voice accompanying that noise, the cause of which becomes clear: it's Cassandra, riding atop the back of Fidella the horse. Both looking down at the woman with some level of concern - as much as a horse can muster, of course.]

What are you doing out there?

[comeandfindme]

[ Vibrations through the earth are something she should look into. That's something she should be alert for. And yet, she's not. She's utterly disconnected. She just stares out into the woods, as if by staring she'll manifest something—

Or someone. ]

Cass, uh. [ ... ] ...I'm waiting?

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Waiting?

[Don't notice the way she bristles, as though just the word brings her grief. It vanishes just as quickly.

She looks out to the forest, squinting as though the shadows will stretch into a human shape.]

For someone? Or something?

[comeandfindme]

[ It's okay. Peregrine doesn't notice much of anything right now, too engulfed in her own grief to. ]

...It doesn't matter. He can't... He won't come, anyway.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[...Ah.

She dismounts from Fidella, crossing over to Peregrine's side.]

...You lost someone, didn't you?

[comeandfindme]

Again. Seems like all I'll ever do.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

It happens more often than I ever thought it does. But we're still here. That counts for something, doesn't it?

[comeandfindme]

[ ... ]

I don't know anymore.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

You can't give up, Per. [Looking out there now, into the woods that held nothing but fake animals and a looming void, it felt less like a living space and more like a fancy fence. Were it that the trees were even fake...]

We'll save them. We'll save everyone.

[comeandfindme]

Everyone? [ ... ] Even people...back home?

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[She thinks back. To her hazy memories of Corona. To the damage its suffered... The damage she's caused.]

We can try.

[Maybe it's just a hopeful dream. Maybe with their worlds flipped upside down, they can actually do something about it. Who knows.]

[comeandfindme]

[ She wonders if that's really the case. She doesn't know if she can believe it right now.

She heaves a mighty sigh. ]

We can... I should go back inside.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[She understands. That's enough of that.]

Probably.

[...]

...You know, I don't think I ever asked if you've ridden a horse before.

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine looks Cass up and down and then moves her gaze to Fidella. ]

I… No. no, I haven’t.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Well, I can do something about that at least.

[She winks - really, Cass? - and hooks herself into Fidella's stirrup before pulling herself up onto the horse's back.

There, she gauges Peregrinne... and offers her a hand.]

If you want to try, that is.

[comeandfindme]

[ She continues to look over the horse, almost skeptically. ]

Is...she gonna let me...?

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Who, Fidella? [She shakes her head.] Fidella's a sweetheart. Plus, she's had more than two people on her back at a time.

[Offers still standing, Per!!]

[comeandfindme]

[ After one more long moment, Peregrine takes Cassandra's hand. ]

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[And with surprising strength - those arms - Cass hoists Peregrine up and onto the horse. There's plenty of room, even with the saddle, for two people. Fidella huffs contently and shifts to accommodate the weight.]

Hold onto me, tight, okay?

[Why ever would Per need to do that-?]

Hiya!

[A flick of the reigns and they're off!! On a brisk trot to start.]

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine knows it’ll probably be a quick adjustment when Fidella starts to run. However, the novelty of being pulled up from the ground to the horse has her brain a beat behind, and she yelps as she wraps her arms around Cassandra’s stomach. ]

Whooooa…!

[feudalladyshandmaid]

Yeah!

[She anticipated this. They go slow at first, Cass directing Fidella from a trot into a slow gallop... Away from the school. Towards the field as a matter of fact.]

How are you holding up back there?

[comeandfindme]

Uh! Pretty well!

[ She yells muffled into Cassandra's back. ]

For a given meaning of the word!