Elda Marker (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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trustfell2017-10-14 10:31 pm
matchbreaker) wrote in trustfell2017-10-14 10:31 pm
One day we'll reach to emotions: unexplored, unprecedented
[ Sometime shortly after the trial small notes will be folded underneath the doors of everyone still alive, and also posted to the staircase leading up to the upper floors. Not many of you have probably seen Elda's penmanship yet unless you checked that Penmanship check a while back, but it's impossibly impeccable fancy cursive script, to match with her old timey appearance. ... She also writes a lot more proper than she talks. ]
[ she's being somewhat facetious about half the group, but the fact does remain that she got more offers than she expected, when she set out to do this. She had expected that Sayaka would help, and indeed both her and Alex provide cookies and curry for the tables. Elda herself sets up the tables, dotting one longer central one made of smaller ones in the ballroom for things to sit on. The bulk of the food's provided by Tarrlok of all people, Chinese food by any other name. Susan, bless her, provides alcohol. Hibki, once she was clean, decided to run backup on preparing the food.
And then perhaps fittingly, Aligula provided the decorations. Steamers line the room, and little cut outs hang around. At Elda's instruction, it's a mix of cats, snakes, and bats. The majority of them have little faces on them. And finally, as and afterthought more than anything else, Elda makes some tea.
... Said tea is black tea and is impossibly dark and bitter because she can't taste it, but maybe that's what you want on a night like this. Who knows. ]
To My Fellows,
The half of you who didn't assist me in this are cordially invited to a celebration of our continued living, and to the memories of those who aren't. We are a mismatched group,
but it has become increasingly clear that we are together in this. Do not allow yourself to be alone.
We will be congregating in the ballroom for the rest of the night.
Better chefs than I will be providing food.
Sincerely,
Elda Marker
[ she's being somewhat facetious about half the group, but the fact does remain that she got more offers than she expected, when she set out to do this. She had expected that Sayaka would help, and indeed both her and Alex provide cookies and curry for the tables. Elda herself sets up the tables, dotting one longer central one made of smaller ones in the ballroom for things to sit on. The bulk of the food's provided by Tarrlok of all people, Chinese food by any other name. Susan, bless her, provides alcohol. Hibki, once she was clean, decided to run backup on preparing the food.
And then perhaps fittingly, Aligula provided the decorations. Steamers line the room, and little cut outs hang around. At Elda's instruction, it's a mix of cats, snakes, and bats. The majority of them have little faces on them. And finally, as and afterthought more than anything else, Elda makes some tea.
... Said tea is black tea and is impossibly dark and bitter because she can't taste it, but maybe that's what you want on a night like this. Who knows. ]
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[ she repeats, still whispering, ] I'm here beside you, girl. You won't be alone for as long as you live. No matter what you've experienced, what you become.
[ She has no idea what the heart of the problem is, and perhaps she's projecting a little. She's defined by her solitude, by the curse of that loneliness - the short precipice of that sunrise, like she had told her before.
But well... either way...
This is love, isn't it? She continues to stoke, her nails gentle on the girl. ]
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She'll...stay crying, for a little while, before she finally just...comes up for a bit, head tilting a bit to show her red, swollen face. ...Though an arm quickly extends to the stove to turn it off, she doesn't need that causing problems now. But...]
...Thank you. It just...felt like something needed to happen, but it wasn't going to without any sort of help. I...feel better.
[Knowing that she's grounded, really.]
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She's trapped, isn't she?
But she smiles, her warmest and most kind smile for the girl, still sort of loosely here if she wants to be held, but giving her some space if she wants that too. ]
It's overwhelming and underwhelming all at once, I know.
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[She'll...be fine, if Elda wants to part, at least.]
...It's just a mess, isn't it? All of it is, especially now...
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Yes, it is. If someone else dies next week, it'll be... well. I shutter to think.
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[Sayaka shudders a bit at the thought.]
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Honestly, I wonder if it's related to that incident with the Weiss girl. Did you wake up for that at all? I'm pretty sure I only saw mage-girl and your girl.
[ It was the middle of the night, after all. ]
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[...She really, really doesn't like the thought of that. And she's quick to correct herself in public, but...]
...She was...she was really, really out of it. She looked like...the person she becomes, when she's down in the pit. I don't know what was going on, but...even so, I hope nothing bad happens to her.
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Elda presses her lips together. More and more people have gotten fond of her, haven't they? It's just just some strange quirk of Sigrun's. How strange. ]
You'd suspect it would be bad for her?
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[...Maybe it is just because she's fond.]
...I guess I'm just worried.
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[ She thinks about one of their more recent encounters... huh. ]
Ultimately, better something against her than against us though, I suppose...
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[...there's a surprising amount of force in her words, but she...dampens it, once that's out there.]
But I...I get you. I just...yeah.
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Did you invite Alex yet?
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She was...in here earlier, helping me out with the cookies. [...] Or did you mean something else...?
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[ GIRL. ]
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[Two guesses to who feels like a dumbass, and the first doesn't count.]
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You've had a day or two beside that too.
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[orz]
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