Pretty Pretty Princess: Redux

[enterstageleft]

Who: Those Who Play Games
Where: The Game Tower
When: Day 300

[ Today you step out of the elevators and into the game room to find yourselves in an airy Grand Ballroom. Maybe, if you've been here long enough--you might recognize this room?

At the front of the room is a buffet table featuring finger sandwiches, petit fours, and savory pastries as well as a variety of small desserts complemented by bottoms-up turned teacups and steaming hot kettles set up for self-serve. From nowhere to be seen comes the sound of instruments playing. Up above, tethered to the ceiling, are what appear to be long curtains. …

The small, square tables feature place cards that as of yet are mysteriously empty, but other than that--there is nothing on the table. Those who have walked in and might prefer to walk out again will find they are mysteriously barred from exiting…. ]


Tables || Sign Ups || Game Rules || Items & Effects || Turn In & Winning Criteria || FAQ || Talk to the Host

Comments

Re: ENDGAME

[worthathousand]

[ She's honestly the first person Amaranth is looking for, though. ]

...Hope.

[ Her tone is gentle but insistent—trying to draw her back to the world. Why does she know so many people who dissociate. ]

Re: ENDGAME

[widenessofthesea]

[ for a moment she makes a sound almost like a growl in the back of her throat—

and then she squeezes her eyes shut, hard, and doesn’t quite turn to face Amaranth. ]

...yes?

Re: ENDGAME

[worthathousand]

I was worried you might not be alright, with all those effects faded.

Re: ENDGAME

[widenessofthesea]

Well. I suppose it'd be even sillier for me to say I am entirely fine, at this point.

Re: ENDGAME

[worthathousand]

...If I had lived that memory first, I would not have kissed you. Even with... that lip paint.

But to have lived that memory at all feels like a worse violation.

Re: ENDGAME

[widenessofthesea]

Well. That's all there is, in that one.

I'm—

...I'm sure you wouldn't have. At the time, though, I...

Re: ENDGAME

[worthathousand]

[ She doesn't say anything, yet; just waits for her to find the words she's looking for. ]

Re: ENDGAME

[widenessofthesea]

[ she squeezes her eyes shut for a moment. ]

...at the time I did—want that, and now it’s hard to say... how much of it was me.

Re: ENDGAME

[worthathousand]

[ keeping her voice pitched soft—as much for privacy as for some attempt at gentleness ]

I imagined that might be the case.
Even though I just sought you ought... if you would rather I gave you space, it is not too much to ask.

Re: ENDGAME

[widenessofthesea]

It’s... fine, really.

Just, well. No physical comfort, but you know that.

Re: ENDGAME

[worthathousand]

[ she dips her head in acknowledgment—a little deeper than typical, actually? ]

"Fine" doesn't really seem like the right word here.
But if you're comfortable with it, I thought I might walk you back to BAD END's rooms.

Re: ENDGAME

[widenessofthesea]

Ah—

[ she clearly has to think about the question a little, but— ]

That would be—nice. If you don’t mind.