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

[howtheworldwas]

[ Peregrine may hear the sound of footsteps approaching...and then stopping, and turning around.

A few minutes later, Eurydice is back, holding a thermos of hot tea. She stops next to Peregrine and offers it to the other girl. ]

Here.

[comeandfindme]

[ Those footsteps aren't the right cadence. They aren't the ones she wishes she heard, so she doesn't care about them—so her loose logic goes.

Those footsteps returning is the biggest surprise so far. ]

Why are you...?

[howtheworldwas]

Because you look awful, and you shouldn't be out here alone.

[ Said very matter-of-fact, but not unkindly. ]

Drink up. It's probably not too bitter.

[comeandfindme]

[ Alone…

After a moment, Peregrine takes the thermos, but she doesn’t drink from it yet. ]

Do you…think some people are just meant to be? …Alone? Like…like there’s something about them that means…they’re supposed to lose others?

[howtheworldwas]

I used to think that. For most of my life, I assumed I was better off alone. That way, people can't hurt you. [ she shrugs. ] Maybe that's true, a little bit. But then you just end up hurting yourself.

[ a beat. ]

So...no, I guess. I don't think that at all. Not anymore.

[comeandfindme]

Then why...

[ She holds the thermos close, as she stares out into the woods. Maybe it'll make her feel warm. ]

Why's it happen? Isn't there a...god of fate or something? Are some people just destined for loss?

[howtheworldwas]

Three, actually. [ She sighs. ] I don't know why it happens. I don't think there's really a reason, even if the Fates do decide.

[ Eurydice frowns. She knows that's not the answer Peregrine wants, but Eurydice isn't really good at white lies. ]

I'm sorry. I know that just makes it hurt worse.

[comeandfindme]

I'm scared that it's gonna keep happening.

[ Something in her chest squeezes tightly. ]

Everyone I love is just gonna die or leave.

[howtheworldwas]

Maybe.

[ People turn on you just like the wind. ]

But hopefully not for a while longer. I'm sorry you didn't get more time. [ She offers Peregrine a small smile. ] For what it's worth, I don't want to leave. I'll try to stay, as long as I can.

[comeandfindme]

...You mean it? [ ... ] You won't...choose to go anywhere?

[howtheworldwas]

I mean it. [ She does. ] I already chose to leave once, and it was the worst mistake I ever made. I'm not doing that again.

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine doesn’t relax. But she blinks back tears. ]

Good. It— …choosing it’s worse. It’s… I don’t want that to happen again.

[howtheworldwas]

Yeah. [ Eurydice looks down at her palms. ] Yeah, it is.

[ a beat. ]

You'll...stay too, right?

[comeandfindme]

[ ... ]

Yeah.

[ She hesitates. But, she still answers. ]

I'll stay.