Room 116 - Laundry Service

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Room 116 - Laundry Service

Postby Gemmalara » Mon Jun 25, 2018 4:55 pm

Gemma plops two baskets of laundry onto the floor in front of Sam and Tereza's room, knocking on the door. None of the laundry is folded, but it all appears to be Sam and Tereza's.
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Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:02 pm

Sam blinks muzzily.

"...in a second!"

She groggily gets up and hastily throws a bathrobe on.

Tereza may be rubbing off on her a bit.

Opening the door, she looks to Gemma, then to the baskets.

"Good... morning?"
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Aspect: Driven by Wolves

Re: Room 116 - Laundry Service

Postby Gemmalara » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:09 pm

"Morning," Gemma says, "Brought your laundry up from the laundry room. Where would you like me to leave it?"
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Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:12 pm

"I thought I told you that you wouldn't have to do laundry?"
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Postby Gemmalara » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:30 pm

"I didn't," she says. "Well, not totally. I didn't fold it."
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Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:32 pm

"Do you... want to do laundry?" She asks, still confused.
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Postby Gemmalara » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:52 pm

"I'm just looking for something to do," she says, seeming a little startled.
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Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:04 pm

"I'm not angry with you, just baffled."

"Something better to do, then?"
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Postby Gemmalara » Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:09 pm

"If you have something, I'm listening."
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Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:12 pm

"I'll admit, I wasn't expecting you to launch into laundry just to scratch that itch. Is this going to be a thing?"
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Re: Room 116 - Laundry Service

Postby Gemmalara » Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:27 pm

"I have to hold up my end of the contract," she says. "So... maybe?"
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Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Jun 25, 2018 10:54 pm

"Hnnh. And we already ruled out most of the actual fun things."
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Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 12:05 am

"I could start you on your sword lessons, but I thought you'd like a break after recent events."
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 12:14 am

"Honestly, if there's something I need right now it's... well, I wish I could bloody figure out how to help Will."
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Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 12:55 am

"What's going on with Will?"
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 1:13 am

"He must've heard me coming when I stepped out during the celebration. I don't know how stealthy he can be with half a church bell riveted to his chest, but he's definitely avoiding me."

"It's about the illusion we were trapped in. He... didn't want it to end."
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Re: Room 116 - Laundry Service

Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 1:19 am

"That's... strange. Although what you were trapped in was much more pleasant than what we were trapped in, from my understanding at least."
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 1:25 am

"I guess it was... a home. Something safe where he didn't have to fight so hard and..."

"...and he had me. Three of me."
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Re: Room 116 - Laundry Service

Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 1:27 am

"Ah. Well, you do seem to have people gravitating towards you, so that's not entirely surprising. Are you sure you don't have some water nymph in your ancestry?"
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 1:40 am

"There's something he's not telling me."

"Okay, there's probably a lot he's not telling me. But he told Tereza it was more than just wanting to... serve me."
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Re: Room 116 - Laundry Service

Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 2:35 am

“I would wager he wants to be happy, like most mortals. If he was happy with you, then I could see him wanting to hang on to that happiness.”
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 5:48 pm

"I know, aye? He just seems determined to... I'm not sure how to put it. Punish himself for that?"
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Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:03 pm

"Well, he described himself to me as the Fulacht na Morrigna. It's possible he considers what he did to be a serious betrayal of his office. As a rule, betrayals are not something anyone associated with the fey take lightly. And like it or not, you are, at least in descriptive, associated with the fey."
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:09 pm

"Nnh. More shite I have to approach by putting on the big scarypants."
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Re: Room 116 - Laundry Service

Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:13 pm

"You don't like the role."
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:15 pm

"It's not that I don't... I've... well, I've just had to lean on it rather heavily lately."
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Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:33 pm

"Lean on it or lean into it?"
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 6:53 pm

"More the former I should think, given having to act in my official capacity."
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Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 7:01 pm

"So you're not accepting the role, just using it," Gemma comments. "That may be part of the problem."
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 7:07 pm

"I don't really have a choice in it, do I? This isn't something I auditioned for. I didn't hand in my CV. It just... comes out sometimes."
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Re: Room 116 - Laundry Service

Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 7:13 pm

"You always have a choice," Gemma states. "You're only out of choices when you're bound by pact."
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 7:21 pm

"So you think I should let myself be the Morrigan more?"

"It seems to cause problems as often as not."
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Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 7:26 pm

"I'm saying that as long as you try to play both Samantha and the Morrigan, you'll never be happy with either. And neither will those that look to one or the other for assistance. Look at it this way, would you want your consort..." She gestures towards the bed where Tereza is still sleeping, "... to separate wolf from woman? Or is it healthier for her to blend the two?"
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 8:47 pm

"...no. She does better when they're both going in the same direction," she admits.
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Re: Room 116 - Laundry Service

Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 9:59 pm

"I'm not saying it's easy. It's not easy being lady-in-waiting and bodyguard."
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 10:37 pm

"I'm already more... blurred than I was before. It doesn't feel wrong, but it does feel like it's... at odds with a lot of things."

"But the opposite is true as well, if I'm honest."
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Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:37 pm

"At odds how?"
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:41 pm

"Well she's not very... modern, is she?"
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Postby Gemmalara » Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:51 pm

"Isn't she? Humans haven't changed *that* much. Only the tools of their squabbling have changed." Gemma looks thoughtful for a moment, "Fey have a hard time changing. That's not to say it can't be done, but we very much are what we are. Mortals are creative and resourceful and always have been. It's one of the reasons that the Grey Lords are so jealous of them. The Morrigan has her roles and her... proclivities for certain, but she sees the benefit in the mortals. She had to have or she would have left with the rest of the fey, don't you think?"
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Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Jun 26, 2018 11:58 pm

"Maybe my mistake is that I keep ending up with people who feel the need to remind me of what she was."
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