EVE'S HEART

[aprettygirl]

A dark veil slips over you, obscuring your vision; it’s cool and clinging, and blocks out all outside sensation. You drift downward . . . as you do, you grow more and more aware of the pulse of your own heartbeat, until it’s a ringing, unpleasant throb in your ears.

. . . after some time, it’s interrupted by a soft splash, and you feel solid rock underfoot.

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Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

What you look great.

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

[no I have platinum blonde hair and lavender eyes and belong in some thirteen-year-old's fanfiction

. . . but trying a biscuit also, to see what that does]

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

Your eyes change colour to a reddish-pink shade as well.

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

[there had better be a good symbolic reason for this, that's all I'm saying

heading over to the couch now, to check it out more closely]

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

There is definitely a keycard slot in the arm! Otherwise it is just a very fancy couch.

The girl sleeping on it doesn't stir.

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

[a-a keycard slot

turning his attention to the girl first, though. shaking her gently]

. . . Eve?

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

She stirs . . . her movements are stiff. Her voice isn't Eve's either: it's an older woman's, but there's a metallic twang to it, as though it's coming from a machine.

"Duchess . . .?"

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

[touches his hair]

Is that who I'm supposed to look like--? [ . . . ] No, I'm afraid not. Did I disturb you?

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

"Ah, I hadn't meant to fall asleep. It's all right . . ."

She sits up properly, rearranging herself to a more comfortable position.

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

[ . . . takes a seat next to her, then]

My name's-- [a noticeable pause, here] Swift. Do you have one, or should I be calling you "your Highness"?

[that last said with a dry smile]

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

"Well met. And . . . well, I have two names, and one is a title, but we can dispense with those formalities here, I think."

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

What would you like me to call you, then?

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

"My other name is 'The Puppet.'"

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

[looks furiously angry for a moment, before it clears somewhat]

--that's an awful name, you know.

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

"It is also a true name."

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

[grinds his teeth, but not saying anything more about that for the moment]

You're the part of the heart that rules. Is that correct?

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

"I am a part tied to duty."

She sounds deeply self-deprecating.

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

And you're "The Puppet" because you're not in control of that duty?

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

"It is a duty that cannot be escaped, because of my own mistakes. . .it will be the downfall of the Empire, someday."

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

You built your country around your own power . . . everything would fall apart without you, so you can't leave.

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

"Seth Nightlord was a very foolish, very angry little girl when she took the throne."

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

What changed?

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

"She grew up and lived . . . and lived."

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[rebells]

. . . she's a lot older than she looks, isn't she?

Re: flesh (court of veils)

[aprettygirl]

"Terran live less than a hundred years. Methuselah, two or three hundred. She is hailed as a monstrous being who has been with the Empire since its inception nine hundred and sixty-three years ago."