Private Conversations with the Lady
Jan. 5th, 2020 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soulspice[Welcome to the Lady's...not home far from home, but it's a place she tolerates. The moment you enter it's clear she did her best to make this office in the bookstore a place she approves.
Outfitted with an overly plush chair on a rather elaborate rug, the desk is overflowing with countless books stacked everywhere, with everything serving as a makeshift bookshelf including an errant fax machine. The Lady seems to have tried her best to make the amenities up to her standards: there’s a tray with a teapot, notes everywhere written with confusing ciphers, and what seems to be an attempt to make a generator, but wasn’t completed.
Where the Lady sits it’s far more orderly, facing the door and giving her the high ground against anyone who enters. On the far wall hangs a large portrait of the Lady, adding character and additional charm. Truly, this is the office of someone who wants you to feel small before her presence.
And, there on her chair, there she is. When the door opened she turned her head towards you, seeing who it was. Invariably of who it is, she sighs like this is a big interruption of her work, and keeps writing and drawing]
Don't touch anything and make sure you don't track mud in. If you have any complaints go see Rembrandt.
[She didn't even look up while saying that. So, what brings you to her office today?]
Outfitted with an overly plush chair on a rather elaborate rug, the desk is overflowing with countless books stacked everywhere, with everything serving as a makeshift bookshelf including an errant fax machine. The Lady seems to have tried her best to make the amenities up to her standards: there’s a tray with a teapot, notes everywhere written with confusing ciphers, and what seems to be an attempt to make a generator, but wasn’t completed.
Where the Lady sits it’s far more orderly, facing the door and giving her the high ground against anyone who enters. On the far wall hangs a large portrait of the Lady, adding character and additional charm. Truly, this is the office of someone who wants you to feel small before her presence.
And, there on her chair, there she is. When the door opened she turned her head towards you, seeing who it was. Invariably of who it is, she sighs like this is a big interruption of her work, and keeps writing and drawing]
Don't touch anything and make sure you don't track mud in. If you have any complaints go see Rembrandt.
[She didn't even look up while saying that. So, what brings you to her office today?]
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Date: 2020-01-08 02:20 am (UTC)I won't waste your time; I want to know what happens once someone dies. You've said you can't kill us yourself, so I imagine we'll continue to remain here until you prompt us with another reason to kill - is that the case?
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Date: 2020-01-08 02:35 am (UTC)[She leans her chin on her hands]
But I'll be fulfilling my end of the deal. While I don't have any respect for most of you, I hold my word on high regard.
Why, are you planning something?
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Date: 2020-01-08 02:40 am (UTC)Not now, no. Someone will certainly kill now - and within a few days, I'd assume - so there's no reason for me to act just yet.
It's certainly a possibility later on, of course. I want to see how this plays out first.
[There's no sense in lying to her, she probably won't buy it.]
I have a question for you about the information provided in the opera house. How did you learn all of that about us?
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Date: 2020-01-08 05:37 am (UTC)You're the first one to come and ask questions I can't answer easily. Well done, I guess.
[She shakes her head]
Not telling you exactly how we did it. But as you can see from that photography object and from we being in this city in the first place, we have the capacity to move between worlds. Wouldn't getting information by spying in your worlds and investigating be very easy for my assistant and I?
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Date: 2020-01-08 05:41 am (UTC)[That's a good enough answer for most of it, and the rest could easily be learned just by watching him for some amount of time. He has no doubts that between the Lady and Rembrandt they could manage that even without him noticing. But there's one thing there that doesn't quite fit.]
I want to ask how you know about my "greatest desire" specifically. That isn't something I've ever mentioned to anyone. So how exactly do you know about it?
[for modly reference: garon also knows about this, iago just has no idea that garon's figured him out!!]
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Date: 2020-01-08 01:45 pm (UTC)I'll have to keep that one to myself.
[Looks like that information is a tad too sensitive]
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Date: 2020-01-09 01:41 am (UTC)Very well. I won't bother you for much longer, but I must ask... I assume "Survivors" isn't just a fancy title, what exactly did we survive?
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Date: 2020-01-09 02:10 am (UTC)[The Lady sucks, pass it on]
Of course it's not a fancy title. You all are survivors in the literal sense of the word, people who are special enough to not die like the rest! You all should feel proud of yourselves!
[Her voice raises, it seems the topic of them being survivors makes her real giddy]
As to what you survived...that's going to be a secret too! AhahaHA!
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Date: 2020-01-09 02:15 am (UTC)Final question, then: what about the people from our homes? Aside from the people in those... photos, I believe? What about the rest, are they still alive?
[...........are xander and leo dead, please let them be dead....]
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Date: 2020-01-09 02:23 am (UTC)Oh, I admit there's a chance someone you know caught my eye. Your worlds were like trees full of fruit ripe for harvesting, and I wanted so much of that fruit. I...I may have taken a few people from your world...
[No word on if Xander and Leo are among the people the Lady got interested in, but if they were...then that's finally some good news for you, eh?]
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Date: 2020-01-09 02:37 am (UTC)You didn't happen to pick up any particularly annoying princes by the names of Xander or Leo, did you?
[oh my god iago don't ask that???]
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Date: 2020-01-09 03:12 am (UTC)...one of those names sounds familiar...blond, pretty face, royalty?
...
If so, perhaps.
[Today's your lucky day, Iago]
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Date: 2020-01-09 03:37 am (UTC)Admittedly, the lady could be lying, but he'd really like to think that one of them is dead!!]
Well, that's certainly nice to hear.
[He ducks into a bow again, though doesn't linger.]
Thank you for your time. I can't guarantee I won't be by later, but I'll take my leave for now.
[And with that he's off!]