Quest 236

[primrosella]

I wasn't just dreaming all the commotion--it really is them. They're really here! Oh, I thought it would be the end of last month, but this...this is even better.

Oh, hello, everyone! It's just lovely to see you all again! I do hope you all managed to dress warmly before coming here, since it's the winter season now. Or, well--it is for us, anyway, since I know time does seem to move differently from one place to another. And it was summer the last time you stopped by, wasn't it? So it's been quite some time now, since we all saw you last.

But you're here now, and that's what's important. And if you have, er, found yourself in a bit of a predicament with proper clothing and whatnot, there's a Welcome Center in the Square that I'm sure can be of some help with that. And do say hello to Penny while you're there!

Does this have something to do with that train? All the things we saw out the windows, the people trying to get in--and now this?

Oh, it's a good thing I saved all those leftovers. If anyone would like some--we just had Thanksgiving a few days ago, you see--there's plenty of cold turkey and cranberry sauce and rolls and things to snack on while you're here!

Sam? ...Blue? If...are you by any chance out there somewhere, too?


[OOC: Canonically, she's from just after the end of Perils of Rosella, and with some very disjointed and vague knowledge of Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder. If something comes up that I don't want her to know, I'll just have her forget it, so have a party--anything goes! HIT HER WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT. Troll, threadjack, have a ball!

And of course, I am totally okay with backdating. ♥]

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video; placeholder time i SHALL RETURN TO HARASS YOU MORE <3

[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

I see you. But very rarely do you see me, I think. Too busy running off, leaving nothing but your skirts and your scent to trail after.

video; sob i ship this already

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I--I beg your pardon, what?!

video; WHY DO ALL MY TOMSTU CHARACTERS WANT TO STALK YOU

[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

No one's allowed to cheat Death, Rosella. But you and your cleverness-- [ It's hard to tell if that expression is a sneer or a smile. ] --so elusive.

video; BECAUSE YOU ARE EPIC

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

You're--

[Watch her go pale.]

You're not--you're not the one that's Penny's friend, are you.

Re: video; PRINCESSES DESERVE LOVE AND ATTENTION. .....and STALKERS.

[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

I know a Penny. I know plenty. And I know how each of them die.

video; it's a certain kind of love and attention, i suppose >>

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Stop it! You leave them alone!

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[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

Everyone dies, Rosella. Everyone. It's not for you to say.

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[primrosella.livejournal.com]

It must make you terribly angry, then, that so many of us keep getting away from you.

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[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

[ Oh, low blow. The young man bares his teeth and an unnatural light glows in his eyes. When he speaks the words are sharp and accompanied by the clack of teeth. Bark bark bark. ]

Run along, princess, run along. I will always come running after. Your throat will be mine, just as all the others.

And it is such a fine and lovely throat.

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[primrosella.livejournal.com]

[Oh, yes, you can see her recoil at that. Even if it is only over a screen, it reminds her of every single time she's given Death the slip...and there've been quite a few of them.]

You stay away from me.

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[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

[ Oh, but he is a loud and territorial creature. His doggedness comes from his masters, for he is a very good dog. ]

Nothing will keep me from you. Your cleverness buys you only time and distance. Nothing else beyond, Rosella. If I were to forfeit my chase you would miss me, for what is adventure without the threat of Death.

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[primrosella.livejournal.com]

Stop it. Stop it!

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[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

[ He maybe smiles for her, the one who got away so many times before. ]

Admit it. There's truth to it.

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[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I'd never miss you.

[The fact that you're damn attractive only makes it worse, by the way. Which is why there's a very, very faint note of uncertainty in her voice, weakening the determination.]

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[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

[ That smile spreads to show white teeth. Is it unfair that Death's dog should have such a smile? ]

You lie.

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[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't. I'm not lying.

[Except that, you know. She does get into trouble so often...and she is always seeming to have run-ins with--no, no, she's not lying, she's not!

...Is she?]

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[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

[ He knows what he's talking about, this one. Most people are flashes in the pan -- in and then out, a smooth transaction. But not Rosella, no. ]

Tell me then, why do you always come so close? Baiting me your delicate hands and your fine white throat. Time and time again.

[ Creepy obsessed? Quite possibly. ]

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[primrosella.livejournal.com]

[Minutes away from the jaws of a dragon. Walking through the caves beneath the mountain, always fearing the talons of the troll. Charming the snake. Fleeing the ogre. Escaping the whale. The hiss of the hags. The grasping hands of the zombies. So many times she'd come so close...]

I did...I did what I had to...

[She's stood him up so many times; small wonder he is. It's cosmic hard-to-get at its finest.]

video; SOB I SHIP IT TOO

[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

[ She walked the razor's edge in this. To tempt Death and Fate so clearly, to have the Black Dog nip at her heels so incessantly, and yet never manage to fall. It followed that she could not keep it up indefinitely and when that moment came he would be waiting for her eagerly. ]

I can smell it in your blood. How ignoble all of your accomplishments would be, were I not there with you.

video; SO DAMN HARD OH MY GOD

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I wasn't doing it for myself! I did it for Daddy!

[It wasn't about the adventure. It wasn't. It was for Daddy, because she couldn't bear to let Death have him on her account...

But of course, that doesn't explain the continued longing for adventure since then, does it?]

I did it for them...for...

video; for the record YOU ARE WELCOME TO WORK WITH NIGEL FACETWINNAGE when he arrives. JSYK :v

[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

A father saved, and a daughter enraptured.

[ It wasn't entirely inaccurate, was it? Oh, what a life, to be locked in a tower so far from Death's call. Much too idle, much too boring. Not what Rosella was meant for, no. ]

Truth now, Rosella. We've known each other for so long.

video; i am ALL OVER that, holy crap. <3

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

I don't go looking for you.

[But suddenly, beneath that gaze, she feels very small.]

You just...always find me.

video; WELCOME ROSELLA TO YOUR BRITISH SCHOOLBOY DOOM <3

[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

Every opportunity missed makes me hunger for the next.

[ Those wisps of smoke begin to curl again from his lashes, framing black eyes. ]

What do you hunger for, Rosella? To be free? To be given chase? To live?

video; and a handsome black dog will suddenly start appearing in her nightmares >>

[primrosella.livejournal.com]

You won't catch me. I won't--I won't let you.

[Which isn't quite the same thing as being caught whether she likes it or not. Which is, of course, going to happen eventually.]

I want... [And she seems to shake all over.] What does it matter to you what I want?

video; it's hard to be the princess

[everyblackdog.livejournal.com]

[ Only a matter of time, Rosella. The Black Dog knows, though it hasn't been made clear to him exactly when. Your resilience is precious and aggravating to him. ]

I'm denied your throat. [ A small growl. ] Give me your answers instead.