queenofheartsrp | second bullet

[After the events of this thread, Mami can be found in the Gardens. She's become very....popular with the local wildlife; there's a fox snuggling in her lap, rabbits nestling contentedly by her feet, a quail perching on her knee and a cat nuzzling her arm.

For awhile, Mami silently preoccupies herself with petting all her animal admirers. For awhile, she focuses on them and not what occurred inside the Labyrinth, not the lurking idea that everything she saw was a horrible illusion. (She deserves for it all to have been real, so that cannot be. Never mind the sudden vanishing of all those bloodstains....) Then she reaches out to a nearby Vine, speaking to it, and the plant obliges her with a mirror shrouded in leafy boughs.

She's very tired, but still smiling- although the expression itself seems...a little less there, a little more whittled down. To those who might notice that sort of thing, anyway.]

I don't suppose this kind of behavior is normal for these creatures? Not that I mean to fuss- this is rather nice. I never had a pet before, or anything similar.

[a pause to scritch the cat, who has by now become quite persistent, behind the ears]

.....However, that's not important right now. I don't know if I was able to save the Queen. Please, has anyone heard from Miss Harlaown or her daughter, Vivio? They went into the Labyrinth with me and I've yet to hear from them.

I can only hope they're safe.

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I just couldn't very well leave her down there without doing my best to help.

Maybe it was a wasted effort, though.

Mmm. If it's wasted, that's her fault.

You think so?....I wasn't expecting that kind of answer.

Yes. You put forth the effort, didn't you? She's in charge, so it's up to her to make what she can of it.

But can she really still be in charge? I got the impression that she was overthrown.

[Teresa glances down for a moment, suddenly pensive--though still completely calm.]

I don't think power changes hands that easily. Do you?

I used to not think so, but...it's not as if this place operates by the same rules I was raised to know.

Mmm.

[Her smile seems a little realer, suddenly.]

It's nice. That you can say that, and not cling to rules you hated from another world. You have a good future here, Mami.

I don't belong to that world anymore. I don't think that there would be much point.

[Mami's own becomes, if anything, more fake- more generic and unchanging.]

At least it's a future.

Oh. Do you think you're the only one who died...?

[....]

.....I can't say for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if others met their end after I did.

...

Were they your reason? For living.

They were going to be.

Then it's not so bad being here after all. Eventually you'll find out what happened to them. Maybe they lived. Mine did.

I keep hoping that will be the case.

But it's difficult, placing faith in anything.

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