Quest 107

[primrosella]

[Handwritten//Off-Network]

HOME (pros)

o) Daddy
o) Mother
o) Alexander
o) Gerwain?
o) Ifnkovhgroghprm
o) Getting to be at home
o) Eighteenth birthday (again)

CITY (pros)

o) SAM
o) Blue
o) Rue
o) Kurama
o) Romeo
o) Neil and Todd
o) Cain
o) Bumblebee?
o) Getting to learn new things
o) Adventure
o) Acting
o) The Library
o) Rollerblades
o) Promises

HOME (cons)

o) Who will be here for Sam? No Sam
o) City friends would be sad
o) Might forget everything learned here
o) MORDACK
o) Might not be able to come back to City again

CITY (cons)

o) Away from family
o) No chance to get to know Alexander better
o) Curses and general misery
o) That man City dangers
o) Guilt
o) Might fall in l

[/Handwritten//Off-Network]

...For all its faults and curses and miseries, the City really is a beautiful place, isn't it?

It's a lovely night for riding, I think.


[OOC: She's heading for the Fountain, specifically; yay, growing nostalgia. Action is fair game if you feel like encountering her!]

Comments

[had_not_lived]

Simply being, I suppose. Forgiveness.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Rats, and I was hoping you'd say getting to eat the cookies I bake for you. But yours is better, I think.

[had_not_lived]

Well, but I wouldn't have that opportunity, if I wasn't here. Your cookies are up near the top of the list of my favorite things, don't worry.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's very true. Well, all right, since you can't have one without the other, it only makes sense. What else is on that list, might I ask?

[had_not_lived]

Things I love about the City? I'm not sure I really know where to begin...

Incompletely and in no semblance of order...

Being here. Second chances. Learning. Not having to go to Harvard and become a doctor and do everything my father wants. Everyone I know here. Our plays. Swing dancing. Fencing lessons with Robin. The library. The park. The carousel (though not the ticking.) Some of the nice curses.

There's more, it's just... hard to list everything on the spot.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a fine list for a start, anyway. But...a doctor? Really?

[had_not_lived]

That was my father's plan for me.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I think you'd make a very good doctor, if that were what you wanted. As it is, I know you're a wonderful actor.

[had_not_lived]

It's not what I wanted, which was the problem.

But-- it's not really important, here. Flattery aside, I am a happy actor.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I think you'd be good at whatever you set your mind to, really. But you're right, the most important thing is that you're happy.

[had_not_lived]

I like having options. I didn't, at home. It's-- I don't know. It was the same for all of us-- even if we didn't like it, we did whatever our fathers, our teachers, told us to.

It's different here. I'm glad for that.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you came here, Neil. And glad that I've had the chance to meet you, too.

[had_not_lived]

I wouldn't trade it for anything, our time here.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Neither would I. It's the best adventure I ever could've asked for.