Quest 211

[primrosella]

[Accidental Video | Open Action]

[Rosella is sitting in one of the quieter, more secluded parts of the beach, perched comfortably atop a fairly large outcropping of rock and silhouetted against the rapidly setting sun. Her hair drifts lightly in the evening breeze as she settles back onto her hands and crosses her legs at the ankles, apparently contemplating the view. Across her lap lies what appears to be a flute; nearby, on the surface of the rock, sits a somewhat tattered paper notebook and pen. The video is at the wrong angle to see what might be written in that notebook, but its pages are covered in jotted notes, arrows, and some heavily-underlined question marks.]

If so needed, only in need...but what makes one need greater than another? What makes it a need at all?

[Like everyone else in her family, Rosella has a bad habit of talking to herself when she's alone, and especially so when she is trying to think; this, apparently, is no exception. She glances down at the notebook at her side, shifting her weight and raising one hand to tuck a wisp of stray hair behind her ear, and then settles back into her position again.]

Coin and cloth...and stone. Stones, new stones. Old friends, new stones, dark places...

[There is a pause, and then a sigh as she lets her head fall back in exasperation.]

Oh, drat it all, I don't know.

[She makes a face accompanied by a low murmur of frustration; though the video is at the wrong angle to capture the expression, the microphone does catch the sound. Then, shaking her head, Rosella sits up and raises her flute, apparently tired of musing for the moment, and opting to play a little instead.]


[OOC: So! Strange things are afoot in the City these days, and it's bugging Rosella something awful. So, tired of hanging out in the Warehouse and thinking up a storm, she decided to get out and go to the beach to muse a little, just for a change of pace. Feel free to action her up if you'd like, and Network for everyone else! But be advised--she'll probably deny that she's got heavy stuff on her mind. She's trying her best to stay upbeat these days.]

Comments

[wandbreaker]

Well, naturally, he'd be upset.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the bits of the monster made out of his hair were the nicest parts of the whole thing, though!

[wandbreaker]

Certainly the softest looking, at any rate.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. So I'm sure he had no trouble finding them all again when the monster finally left. That was the whole reason why he'd come, actually--to deliver us all our hair back.

[wandbreaker]

That sounds like something my mother would yell at my sisters for clogging up the shower with.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

It really rather was. And it did seem to like showers, yes; I remember we had to close off a whole room at the time, because it had come up through the pipes and was attacking people from out of the shower.

[wandbreaker]

Every little boy's nightmare.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

The real nightmare was cleaning it all up again after it was over, you know.

[wandbreaker]

To say the least, I'd imagine.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. But in any case, I've been thinking about things like that lately. The hair monster did come back again, actually, but he wasn't covered in hair when he did. And he'd already been here at least once, back before the mess with the hair ever came about. It's strange to think that he keeps coming back to visit us, with no way of telling when or why.

[wandbreaker]

But you have a theory.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's worthy of being called a theory, even, but I have...a suspicion, I suppose. And I'm trying to remember as much as I can in the hopes that something will help me turn that suspicion into something more workable.

[wandbreaker]

When you work it out, I'd like to hear it.

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Of course. It concerns you, anyway, since Peter--

His mother--the hair monster's, that is--she came to see us, too. She said she was the one that paid for the people that are dead in the City, so that they could be alive again. Or as alive as they are, at least.

[wandbreaker]

So she made a deal with the deities?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Quite the contrary, really. We think she outranks them.

[wandbreaker]

....really?

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Yes, she and her son both. And more importantly, she's really the only deity we've ever run into that's...well, really seemed to care about our well-being, rather than just keeping us around to run the clock and making concessions every once in a while.