queenofheartsrp | ☣ third story. (video)

( Ellie's just sort of lying down by the vine, playing with a tiny tiny fruitknife. It looks blunt and useless, and like it's seen better days, but Ellie is just unfolding and refolding it. )

I've been thinking. ( A bit of a pause, and her voice drops, something like self mockery. ) Big shock, there.

So, if we're all here, and we're all... stuck. That means all our friends and people, they're either home, or they might just wind up here too, right? ( Hmm. Either she's got extremely muted enthusiasm, or she's confused by the idea. Or maybe both. ) Does anyone have friends here? Friends not from here, I mean, the sort that are imports from home.
( Again, with the dry side commentary. ) Like... wine, or something. ( . . . Well. There's Homer. ) Or cheap beer.

( Ellie shakes her head, brushing her hair out of her face. )
The point was... if you do, or if you don't-- do you wish your friends were here? Is it wrong, wishing that? Wishing that people you love where here, with you, when it means there'd also be... some sort of sci-fi-fantasy nightmare with... killer plants, or if... having them here, you being here meant that you weren't doing whatever stupid, important things you had to get done back home?

Or... ( she clears her throat ) something.

( ooc:: I have to zip out to work shortly, but I will backtag forever when I get home! )

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You couldn't throw a rock without it hitting something magic in this place.

( LE SIGH. ) What name would you give it?

[She thinks about this for a moment, frowning a little.] I don't... really think we have a name.

They call us witches, and they call the shimmer in our blood 'the glitter', but what that allows us to do, those are just... abilities.

( Where there was magic, she should probably have been expecting witches. She wasn't, though, she rubs her forehead a little for a moment. )

Right. That glittery blood doesn't cause any medical problems, does it?

No. The opposite, actually.

That's a plus, I guess.

( A long pause. ) It's really weird to try and visualise. Like just... sparkling blood. Like it makes all the terrible things you see silly somehow, because there's glitter all through it.

It's more like... the way a pool of oil would catch the light.

[She goes quiet for a moment, herself.]

It's still blood. We're still human.

That's sort of interesting.

( . . . )

And morbid. God.

( What is wrong with you, Ellie? Talking to strangers about their blood, now? )

[She takes a breath, pushing away bad thoughts and managing a small smile.]

I hope you don't mind, if I don't offer to cut myself to show you.

Somehow I'll live without it. ( Dry. So dry. )

Well, now I have an idea what your blood looks like, it's probably all right for me to ask your name. Right?

[She dips her head politely, the smile stronger now.]

I'm Mahalia. It's good to meet you.

Ellie. Likewise, I guess.

( Social graces, what do? )

Ellie.

[Another dip of her head, then she thinks quietly for a moment.]

Is there someone you miss, then?

( Right. That was the point of this, wasn't it? )

A few someones. ( She sort of tenses up, rubbing at her jaw agitatedly. ) We work together.

( Whatever that means. )

Would you prefer them here, or would you... [She hums a little, thinking on how to phrase it.] just like to know they're okay?

( There's a long silence. ) I don't know. I want them here, so that we're all together... but Homer and Lee and Kevin couldn't be here, and that just leaves Fi... and Fi's pretty delicate. She might not be able to deal with this place.

So, I guess... I'd rather know they were safe.

I understand. I can't really imagine how I would feel, if I didn't have any idea how my siblings were.

Mm.

You get sick of people, you know? When you're with them all the time, you sort of want to just not be with them. Maybe just... be careful what you wish for, something like that.

[She looks really puzzled.]

That's never happened to me.

Never? ( Slightly incredulous. ) You've never gotten sick of anyone?

No. [She shakes her head.] I don't... really understand how you could.

It's-- ( and maybe she's sounding defensive. Like she needs to justify herself, somehow. ) We were together all the time. Living together, sleeping, eating. They're my friends, but people... need breaks from each other. Being cooped up with the same people all the time isn't normal.

[She still doesn't really understand, had only just begun to leave her mother's house for long periods on her own right before she'd been brought to the Gardens. She offers up the only examples she can think of.]

My mother would go into her study, and I would take walks in the woods. But... only a few hours at a time. Sometimes I would go to stay with my godfather for a little while. A week was the longest.

Were you all in one room? All the time?

No. We just... didn't have anyone else, anymore. They were the only people around, really.

( It's hard to explain; Hell is a remote hideaway, living on the run-- the tension all the time probably made it worse than it would have been otherwise, and the pressure. She sighs, aggravated. ) It's just complicated.

[Mahalia frowns a little at the aggravated sigh. She hadn't meant to press Ellie into telling her anything that was too hard or upsetting.]

It's alright. It sounds like it was very difficult.

Yeah, I bet it does. ( She shoots her a look. ) We didn't have any magic in our blood to help us out, either.

( If she were thinking rationally - if only - she wouldn't be talking like this, or reacting like this, but it's hard, trying to adapt and get back into the swing of things, trying to deal with so much change at once. ) We're just bloody human.

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