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…. ]


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Comments

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[beautifulend]

It's funny. People keep telling me things aren't going to hurt like that in this place. But it's just more of the same, isn't it?

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[widenessofthesea]

It’s just more of the same—

[ she just like, starts chucking plastic jewelry across the room— ]

...and it just felt—fine. That’s the worst part.

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[beautifulend]

Mm. I called two different people Master and didn't even hate it a little. And I was made to love someone and even now I can't quite shake the feeling.

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[widenessofthesea]

...all right well I suppose it’s a good thing I told Amaranth she might need to kill me, huh.

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[beautifulend]

Oh! She's very good at that. Putting down beasts exactly like me is what she did back home, so you're in good hands.

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[widenessofthesea]

On one hand when you say it like that it, something about it makes me uncomfortable, but on the other hand I, you know, hunt down and kill my own kind, so.

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[beautifulend]

It's the most fitting end for things like us.

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[widenessofthesea]

...to be killed by someone who understands?

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[beautifulend]

That's right.

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[widenessofthesea]

Well, I suppose it'll especially have to be you because I can never have Amaranth look at me ever again.

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[beautifulend]

Was it that bad? In terms of how you looked to everyone else, that is.

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[widenessofthesea]

First of all it was an absolutely mortifying experience and second of all in my impaired state it seemed like a fine idea to kiss her quite passionately.

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[beautifulend]

Not that it helps the problem of having kissed someone passionately, but she probably thinks you're hot.

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[widenessofthesea]

I don't even know what I'd do with that. I can't even sort out if I am interested or not.

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[beautifulend]

Mm. It's hard to say when this game was what it was. What I was trying to say, though, is that she won't judge you for anything you did. I don't even think she'll make much mention of it unless you show interest first.

She's, ah...'respectable'.

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[widenessofthesea]

...that’s true.

[ which rankles for a whole other reason. ]




Especially since, well—it seems like half the table got a front-row seat to the worst of my recollections, so.

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[beautifulend]

Oh, you too? It's starting to feel like they're doing this on purpose at this point.

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[widenessofthesea]

I’m sure it’s on purpose and I hate it.

I hate—not being able to trust that I want things because I want them.

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[beautifulend]

...Yeah.

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[widenessofthesea]

Mm.

—so, bad time for you too, then.

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[beautifulend]

Servitude's no more or less a bad time than I usually have.

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[widenessofthesea]

So, it's usually horrid.

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[beautifulend]

Horrid's a strong word. It's really just background noise at this point.

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[widenessofthesea]

Still. It's—wrong.

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[beautifulend]

...Yeah.