Quest 125

[primrosella]

[Private//Hackable by Friends]

Everything changes.

Rue left and now she's back. Hong Mei left--I saw that much from the Network--and Sam's trying to hide how upset he is about it, but I wouldn't be much of a best friend if I hadn't learned how to see through all that by now. It really isn't fair, is it? First Mikaela leaves, and then he goes home and comes back dead in a terrible situation, and then Bumblebee leaves, and now Hong Mei is gone, too...

Everything's getting busy now, and October is coming up fast. Is that what it's going to be, I wonder? An October filled with chaos? Send people out and bring them back and of course there's plenty of mischief to be had with the prison destroyed and the Warden gone...

And I'm happy, yes, but I'm distracting myself and I know it.

It's ominous, somehow. Is it just because we're all anticipating October with such dread? It's only been a few weeks since the prison, and October is lurking on the horizon, and in the meantime I'm doing everything I can to make things go back to normal...

And yet everything changes.

We'll manage it, though, won't we? All of us, no matter what. We'll find a way.

And I'll keep hoping, for everyone else that can't.

[/Private]

So we've just had another of those random weekends of curses. Does it seem as though it came particularly late in the month this time? I wonder. It's been quite a while now, since those trends of weekends started--since the spring, at least, wasn't it?--and it seems as though they're getting later and later every time. I suppose I could go back through my journal and see which days it fell on each time, since I usually find myself remarking on that weekend after it happens in one way or another, but still, I wonder.

Let's see, then. Some of the curses I recall seeing before--like the one about the horrible attempts at wooing others, and the one about being turned into a child--and others were new. I know the singing curse has come about before, but I think this was the first time I've ever been cursed with it, personally. And I don't recall the one that lets our souls out to play, either, which is rather a pity. I think I'd like to know what shape my soul takes. Of course, I certainly don't know what all goes into determining the shape of a soul, but if it's meant to reflect something about ourselves, I suppose that would at least give me a place to begin in my wondering, anyway.

And then there's the singing curse, which is how I found myself cursed this weekend. At least it was only for Saturday; I doubt I'd have a voice at all today, had I spent the whole weekend singing the way I did that one day. Honestly, I could hardly get a word in edgewise without breaking out into some melody or another--and the oddest part of it all is that I don't think I knew a single one of the songs before I sang them. Some of them were terribly catchy, though. Perhaps I'll see if I can't remember how they go, once my sore throat goes away.

...I wonder if my soul would turn out to be a pony today. I am feeling a little hoarse.

On a lighter note--and a note I don't need my voice to express, I might add--I think I've finally found the dress I want for Blair's ball. It's this Saturday, if memory serves, so it's about time I made a decision and settled on a dress. It's red, of course, and it's--well, no, I suppose I ought to keep it a surprise, shouldn't I? But it's a nice dress, anyway, and I like it well enough. So that's something.

Mm. It's almost October.

...And by the way, I don't know what the purpose of a "bonsai kitten" is, or why in the world anyone would want one, or why in the world a man in New York--wherever that is--is selling them, for pity's sake, but what sort of awful person even comes up with the idea of raising a kitten in a glass bottle, anyway? Honestly.

Comments

[stokerwasahack.livejournal.com]

I hope Tony is reading so that he realizes my sense of humor is merciful compared to yours.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

At least I'm not singing anymore. That'd make it all much verse.

I gather you're back to normal, then, Your Grace?

[stokerwasahack.livejournal.com]

I was normal yesterday, just younger.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I do wonder what sort of shape your soul would take. I'm told that, during that curse, they take on a shape that somehow reflects ourselves.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I bet it'd be a frog. That'd be just my luck, you know.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

You don't seem like you'd have a frog for your soul.

hey I heard they took the word 'gullible' out of the dictionary :D

[bequiet_hescreamed]

People do that?

sob she just fails at the internet

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

That's what someone said, though I can't imagine why anyone would want to. Or what sort of horrible person it would take to do so, either.

s'okay |D he's not any better

[bequiet_hescreamed]

I don't know if it bothers me more that someone out there does it, or that there must be more than one person who buys them from him.

[horrible-penny.livejournal.com]

You're still making puns! All is well with the world.

And hey, the bonsai kitten thing? Totally a hoax. Kind of like Jonathan's Swift's essay about eating babies to cut down on population.

Hahahaha, oh, Penny, watch her completely miss the point.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Eating babies?! To what?!

[had_not_lived]

I really don't think it would work. I hope no one really tried it.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Why would anyone ever want a cat in a bottle, anyway?

[justashow.livejournal.com]

I don't think kittens can survive in bottles. Not any of the ones I've ever seen, anyway.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

It seems ridiculous, I know, but one can never be sure in this City. But either way, it still begs the question of why anyone would want to at all.

sob sorry for dropping yesterday's thread. 1/2

[gazingup.livejournal.com]

This was a good introduction to curses. Trial by fire, you could say? Well ... I think you could say that, but I wasn't affected myself.

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[gazingup.livejournal.com]

Apologies for any disrespect on my part, Princess.

voice;

[guardianjoker]

I heard from someone that the weekend curses change weekends at the start of each season, it seems to be true so far at least.

...There's a curse that turns your soul into a shape?

voice;

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Perhaps that's it, then. There does seem to be a progression of some sort, anyway, and there weren't always weekends like this, either. I don't recall exactly when they started, but I can remember a time when they didn't come once a month.

A friend of mine was afflicted by it, yes. It's quite intriguing, really.

GOOD GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE INTRODUCING BONSAI KITTENS TO POLY XDDDDD

[mumbled_truth]

I really don't think that kitten thing could be true.

I mean, I really hope not...

ROSELLA AND CASPIAN ARE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THE KITTEHS

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I do hope it's only a hoax, as some people have suggested. It's a horrible thing to do to any living creature, bottling them up like--like goodness knows what.

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

It's Blair's ball now. I see.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? If she's the one arranging everything for it, I don't see why it wouldn't be.

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[princess-crow.livejournal.com]

October.

[princess-crow.livejournal.com]

You promised me a duet, Rosella.