week 4

[stagemanagers]

WEEK 4
[Another week has passed in the opera house and things are looking grim as ever. With Gabe and Hime gone, the performers are down to 16 of them.

On Monday, the opera house is still heavily decorated with a few new additions. There are more cottony cobwebs, a few small ghosts hanging from the ceiling made of cheesecloth, even more pumpkins here and there. A few more candy bowls have been set out in places like the dining room and a few others and only a few of them are only filled with candy corn. In the dressing rooms the stars on Gabe and Hime's doors have fallen off, leaving behind a patch of star-shaped wood slightly lighter than the rest of the doors on Hime's and a different star underneath on Gabe's.

Like the previous week, the door on in the second floor lobby is unlocked and a new floor is ready to be explored. Have a good week, everyone.]

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Comments

[sunshineprincess]

Eliza... are you alright? Do you need some tea?

[Did you have a bad memory come back?]

[bestof]

That's very kind of you but I'm- [She swallows thickly, reaching up to push the hair out of her face. Her eyes are red-rimmed and puffy from crying and really she wants nothing more than to crawl back in bed and stay there for the rest of her life.] I'm fine.

[sunshineprincess]

[She hesitates before pulling Eliza into a tight hug.] If you need or want to talk, you can come to me, okay?

[bestof]

[Eliza's whole body goes rigid when she's hugged. She's perfectly still for a long minute before she starts to tremble and lets out a half-choked sob and buries her face in Anna's shoulder. She returns the hug with almost desperate strength, like Anna is the only thing keeping her from completely collapsing right now.]

[sunshineprincess]

[Anna wants to pull away when she feels the other tensing, but when she's hugged in return, she can't help but smile softly.] It's okay. You can let it all out.

[bestof]

[The crying lasts a good few minutes before she's able to stop. She pulls away enough to catch her breath and wipe her eyes against a shoulder.]

I'm sorry, Anna, it-it hasn't been a very good night.

[sunshineprincess]

[At least crying is a stress relief.]

Bad memory?