Week 7

[stagemanagers]

[Last week, on It's Curtains...boy, that sure was a year-long week, huh?

But despite it all, you've gotten through it with less death than there might have been. Spongebob and Farrah both survived their ill-conceived plan; Maya, with the intervention of Janis and Hester, survived her triple murder. Since the failed execution, there has been no sign of the Wizard or of Hester. It seems like you may have gotten away with that cleanly!

When you wake up on Sunday, you remember everything. All the gaps, the missing pieces, entire chunks of time from back home - they're back and neatly fitted where they should be in your heads. Elle, Orpheus, and Eurydice have also been given graves alongside the others in the garden. These ones were filled in for you; after all, you were all pretty occupied over the weekend.

Other than that...it seems like some unusual posters have been put up around the school. Sounds like something's going to happen this week. You'd better prepare.]

Sunday | Monday | Tuesday

(( As per usual, endgame will ICly take place on Wednesday, so get those last threads in! As this is the last week, all characters should be at their true canonpoint memory-wise. Feel free to continue submitting regains and...well, you can certainly try to visit Hester. No AC this week, but be sure to check in for endgame! ))

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[mayavericks]

[Perhaps unsurprisingly, Maya spends most of her day in Broadhurst. The door is propped open, and she has several mattresses on the floor for anyone to join her with. She's left any undelivered letters out in the hall throughout the weekend, so feel free to handwave that!

At least when she wakes up, she seems pleased enough? The memories she's regained... feel warm. Despite the tragedy she had witnessed, everything has panned out well enough. And even if she lost the lead role in the end, she was still with her friends.

She tries not to think about how that happiness must have been disturbed by her disappearance, by the disappearances of Claudine and Nana. She doesn't want to think about that, not after all of this.

In the end, she leaves her room twice. The first is to go to the Principal's office. Judging by the sounds of pounding and yelling, that... search doesn't go particularly well. So unwell that she emerges and promptly... slides down the wall in a heap.

Don't mind her.

Before long, though, she does manage to go to the makeshift graveyard. She brings with her some flowers (difficult though it is with her crutches), laying each of them on the graves -- ones that she had created. Before long she kneels on the ground. It feels like ages since she's prayed, but she tries it now.

And when she finishes, she just stares at the dirt.]

Can you hear me? I hope you can. You do not... really need my permission to be angry, I'm sure. But I want you to know that it's okay. I accept it. Deserve it, even. Even if my actions were not my own, I still... did that. Separated you from loved ones.

I should be there, with you. If anyone deserved mercy, it certainly was not me. I apologize for that as well. I... tried.

Broadhurst

[brokeforgood]

Maya! [Farrah basically busts down the door to Broadhurst pretty early in the morning. She’s got that plastic rabbit Peregrine brought inside under her arm—— Only. It moves.]

I brought you a visitor!

[mayavericks]

[Hey, Farrah, what the fuck -- ]

Is that -- How are you doing that?

[brokeforgood]

Doing what? [The bunny's cute lil nose twitches at Maya.]

[mayavericks]

It's moving! It's -- [A few blinks.] Is it real?

principal's office

[comeandfindme]

[ They have the same idea. Peregrine just gets there after Maya. Seeing her curled up against the wall terrifies her. Her brain's already switching into doctor-mode, when she rushes up to her and kneels down. ]

Maya? Maya, are you okay? Did your stitches open up?

[mayavericks]

[Maya's slow as she shakes her head. Her fingers grip at open air, desperate to squeeze down on something in an attempt to keep the grief from rising up.]

She's gone, Peregrine. Because of me --

[comeandfindme]

[ ...Oh. Oh, no. Peregrine pales. ]

Hester. She— she's not...?

[ Immediately, Peregrine grabs at Maya's hand, giving her something to hold onto. ]

[mayavericks]

I looked everywhere! There was no answer at the doors. I tried to sing for her, I tried --

[She clutches at Peregrine's hands.]

I told them "No more lives." Why didn't they listen!

[comeandfindme]

[ Peregrine leans in slowly, touching her forehead to Maya's, wincing sadly. ]

I don't think she could sit by and watch anymore, Maya.