[ her recent composure flies out the window as her voice descends back into a graceless squawk, that last word pitching up so high it's almost inaudible. ]
But that's—
[ impossible is what she wants to say, but after everything that's happened, the flood of fontaine followed by focalors' final judgement, is the disappearance of a single man truly so impossible? it's not as though she keeps tabs on him, more than happy to let neuvillette and the rest of the palais handle any correspondence with the fortress of meropide. she'd had better things to worry about than a bunch of convicts and afterwards.....well, she'd had a lot of self-reflection to do.
still has a lot of self-reflection to do.
she chews her lip, uncertain of how to proceed. her dealings with wriothesley have been few and far between, limited largely to the occasional gift of tea sent her way. (all very good tea, to be fair.) but neuvillette had always vouched for the man, claimed him to be trustworthy, and she had always trusted neuvillette. in that case...she sighs, closing her eyes briefly. ]
That's right. I find myself one of the newest arrivals to this [ what was it again, she wracks her brains for the name ] Golden Peacock, though I assure you that had I been allowed to book my own vacation, I never would have chosen some place as [ ... ] off-color as this. But! Since I'm already here and expected to stay, and since you've been here for quite some time now it seems, I'm sure you wouldn't mind taking some time out of your busy schedule to show me around the place?
[ a tour of.....a sex resort. great. why doesn't she just let the sand swallow her whole instead. ]
no subject
[ her recent composure flies out the window as her voice descends back into a graceless squawk, that last word pitching up so high it's almost inaudible. ]
But that's—
[ impossible is what she wants to say, but after everything that's happened, the flood of fontaine followed by focalors' final judgement, is the disappearance of a single man truly so impossible? it's not as though she keeps tabs on him, more than happy to let neuvillette and the rest of the palais handle any correspondence with the fortress of meropide. she'd had better things to worry about than a bunch of convicts and afterwards.....well, she'd had a lot of self-reflection to do.
still has a lot of self-reflection to do.
she chews her lip, uncertain of how to proceed. her dealings with wriothesley have been few and far between, limited largely to the occasional gift of tea sent her way. (all very good tea, to be fair.) but neuvillette had always vouched for the man, claimed him to be trustworthy, and she had always trusted neuvillette. in that case...she sighs, closing her eyes briefly. ]
That's right. I find myself one of the newest arrivals to this [ what was it again, she wracks her brains for the name ] Golden Peacock, though I assure you that had I been allowed to book my own vacation, I never would have chosen some place as [ ... ] off-color as this. But! Since I'm already here and expected to stay, and since you've been here for quite some time now it seems, I'm sure you wouldn't mind taking some time out of your busy schedule to show me around the place?
[ a tour of.....a sex resort. great. why doesn't she just let the sand swallow her whole instead. ]