don't wait for a knight in shinin' armor, your savior's reflected in the mirror

[perpend]

[That sure was a fucking thing. That execution was a fucking thing. Those secrets are a fucking thing.

Cabanela retreats to his room, but not for all that long. Everyone will get a note eventually, written in very neat handwriting

I do not plan on bowing down to threats and intimidation. If you did not act, it means you were, like me, aware of the risk, but decided against it. Your reasons are entirely your own.

Join me in the dining room if you agree enough is enough, and that you won't acquiesce to threats. I don't plan to let this stop me, and neither should you.

-C

In the dining room itself, Cabanela has set up coffee and tea for those who want it-- there's no food, because to be honest, he doesn't know how to cook. Two more candles have been lit-- he wasn't really sure what to do about the whole... parasite thing... so Fern's candle will have to make due.]

Comments

[ninehundredlives]

A big drinker?

[didntgetdadslooks]

Among other things.

[ She said, bitterly, holding a bitter drink. ]

It's not helping like I hear it's supposed to.

[ninehundredlives]

I don't think it really helps at all. Unless you drink until you pass out, I guess. But that was never my particular poison.

[didntgetdadslooks]

Mm. Guess I set my expectations for it a little too high.

[ninehundredlives]

Maybe a little.

[....mmmm, she should make some kind of suggestion here. Some kind of wise advice befitting her age. But she hasn’t got any - even offering to talk seems strange, when now they both know exactly what’s wrong already.

A matricide and an infanticide walk into a bar.]

Is there anything else? That...you want?

[didntgetdadslooks]

I...

[ She looks into her glass. ]

... I didn't mean to do it.

[ninehundredlives]

.....yeah. Kinda figured.

[Killed her mother. Sounds like a garbage way of saying the woman died in childbirth or something...but that's an assumption. The rest of it...well. There has to be something.]

[didntgetdadslooks]

It was... my powers woke up, and she was there when it did, and...

[ Taking a sip of the whiskey is easier, actually. ]

[ninehundredlives]

...I'm sorry. That doesn't sound like your fault at all.

[Even though she has zero idea what these powers are.]