primrosella | Quest 147

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--Sam dying
--Friends tortured
--The prison exploding
--Losing my heart
--October monsters
--Lolotte
--Wars upon wars
--Friends leaving
--Boxes and choices
--Sam in that trap
--Hospitals
--Caught between Sam and Cain
--The barrier tearing
--Lies of home
--Friends leaving
--Rain of blood
--Graves

If I write about it, it'll go away. If I write about it, it'll go away. If I write about it, it'll dull and fade and I won't have to think about any of it anymore, it can just go away, it'll get better--it always gets better--please, please, let it get better...

It was a trick and I knew it was a trick and I was right to think it was a trick.

~~Will they all come back?~~

There are good things. There are good things. Mother and Daddy and Alexander came to visit. My friends are here. Christmas is coming. Time goes on. It will get better, it has to.

I was miserable after the hair monster, all those months ago. And I got better, didn't I? It got better. It'll be all right. I've faced worse. The dragon was worse. Lolotte was worse. ~~Lolotte came back--~~ The City plays tricks, but I've faced worse.

~~How could you?~~

I can manage it. Somehow, I'll manage...

~~I don't want to be caught in the middle anymore--~~

Once upon a time there lived a princess and she came to a very strange land called the City and while she was there she faced horrors and trials like none she had ever seen in her homeland, but she made plenty of friends and learned plenty of things and she grew stronger for it, better for it, and one day she learned how to live happily ever after, even if it's all right to just live happily, too. She'll live happily. I can be happy. Somehow, I'll manage to be happy.

~~Please--~~

Daddy...

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It's quiet out today, isn't it?

The barrier is patched. That strange man is gone. The animals are back, and they say that soon they'll let the people out, too, if they haven't already. Has anyone come back, or did they finally make it home, after all? I wonder.

Is it over? Can it finally, finally be over?

Sam, if you need me to do anything for you today, just yell for me. Or call on my device. I'll wake up, I promise.

~~Please just let it all be over.~~

[OOC: Hello, rock bottom. Fancy meeting you again! Fortunately, the only way to go from here is up, right? Also, this is kind of placeholdery; I have to step out soon, but I'll get back to all tags as soon as I can.]

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I don't know. I... I can't really think of much that I want.

You'll remember. It's-- I know it's hard to sometimes, but... you will.

Or sometimes, the things you want aren't things that can be given that way.

I do hope you like the Rollerblades, though.

Yeah. And sometimes they're that and impossible.

I do. I... I sort of fall down, though. I think I'm going to need some practice when winter's over.

Impossible wishes are sometimes nice to dream about, though. I can think of one in particular that I like very much.

If you'd rather not wait for winter to be over, you can always bring them to the Warehouse. There's plenty of room for practicing, and I could help you with it, too. That's how I stayed in practice over last winter, anyway.

Sometimes they can be... I think it depends what it is. What's that one particular one? I mean, if it's one you can tell. I know sometimes they're not.

That sounds like a good idea. We don't really have enough room here for me to wear them, and I don't think the people who live below us would be very happy with me if I did anyway.

The one where I manage to bring all of you home to Daventry with me, and we all live happily ever after. It's one I like to think about sometimes.

Anytime you like, then. You're always welcome.

I think I like that one, too. Actually, I... I might borrow it sometimes if that's okay.

It'll probably be a few days... I'll be staying in with Neil and Anne for a while, in case they need anything. They're both okay, but... I think they should get to rest for a few days.

You should. Perhaps if we both wish for it, it might not be quite so impossible after all.

Of course, yes. I've been doing much of the same with Sam, really. And do let me know if there's anything I can do to help, won't you?

I will, then. Usually I just wish that I won't have to go home. I think aiming for being somewhere nicer than the City is much better.

Of course. You let me know if I can, too, okay?

Edited 2009-12-11 02:14 (UTC)

...Are you wishing for that because you really don't want to go home, or because you don't want to leave the people here? If you don't mind my asking.

I will.

Because I don't want to leave the people here. Home isn't great, and it's even less great right now, but... I wouldn't want to stay here if it weren't for everyone I have here.

I suppose it's a question of what matters most to you, really. What makes a home, the place or the people in it?

Yeah, I guess so.

I mean, there are still people I care about back home, it's just... it's not the same.

I know how you feel, in a sense. I can't see my best friend anywhere else but here in the City, either. ~~Or--~~

I'm sorry, Rosella. Really.

It's... all the more reason to keep wishing, though, right?

It's...nothing to be sorry for, really. It'd be worse if I didn't know that my parents won't even notice I've been gone. But as long as I'm here, I'm here, and I'll have my friends...and there'll be time, once I'm home, to be home.

But there's always the chance I'll find a way to have both, and that's something to wish for, certainly.

Quest 147

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