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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Comments

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

[takes it, smoothing his fingertips over it]

Will it hurt you?

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

"Not really. ...don't worry about hurting the heart so much in general, actually. It's sturdy enough, but it's looking for some outside perspective on how to change...things are stagnant."

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

Stagnation breeds discontent. It's dangerous.

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

"Mm. Yes."

She looks aside.

"I remembered your death, at last. I didn't have time to tell you before this happened."

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

...I'm sorry.

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

She shakes her head.

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

Thank you for it.

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

". . . I still don't know how I feel, about being thanked for that . . ."

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

The alternative was to forever stay Marionettenspieler's. You gave me the peace I desperately needed.

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

She sighs.

"I will kill that man -- mm, but he is not here."

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

[looks up, and then around]

Our lives have been so intersected, at least from my end, though it may not have seemed so to you. Should I be here?

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

"Yes."

There's a deep surety in the word.

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

--Ah.

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

"Will you see what there is to see...?"

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

I'll see what you allow me to.

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

"You're allowed to see whatever you want, really. Though finding some things may be more difficult."

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

We have, all of us, our own secrets, Miss Eve. You and I most of all. This place creates an environment in which it is easier to speak of troubled pasts, but when it involves those we knew before our arrival... It only risks so much more.

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

"I'm weighing the risk against the benefit of being able to change a little more, and show what I may not always be able to show. You said yourself that stagnation breeds discontent."

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

How do you wish to change?

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

"If I knew . . ."

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

I'm not the only one here.

I'm not sure I should be here. Miss Eve, don't you see? I...know too much. Too personally.

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

"You have more perspective on me; on what shapes me. Do you feel that interferes in some way, rather than being helpful?"

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

I'm sorry. I...do.

Re: players

[aprettygirl]

"Hmmm.

Would you be willing to speak to the one at the center of this heart, at least?"

Re: players

[twiceburnt]

The center? I, ah. Have no objections to it.