[heart game]

[dormancy]

There is a click, a soft urging, almost whispered too soft to hear, but you can sense that you are being beckoned somewhere, lead to an elaborate open door with wood panels and great curls of gold leaf. You cannot see what is beyond the door, but it smells sour and sharp. Before you can turn over the thought of should you or shouldn't you, if you are the kind, there is a quiet push at your back and through the door you go . . .

Join #supersafe, because I like being misleading. When in doubt, use this for flower meanings if you character is the type . . .

Comments

[sightunseen]

Really...

[peers into the lock :T]

[dramatispersonae]

"It's in there?"

It seems that you have found the other half. If you had a fine tool, you would probably be able to pry it out?

[sightunseen]

Yes, so it seems. He broke it off... if we found a bit of wire, perhaps—?

[...takes out a piece of origami paper and folds it to stiffen it, then attempts to work it out]

[dramatispersonae]

That works as well! It takes a few good pushes, but the other half eventually falls out.

[sightunseen]

[picks it up with a tiny "tch" to fit the key halves together]

[dramatispersonae]

It takes a bit of pressure, but like they were meant together, they eventually meld back into a whole key.

[sightunseen]

Ah, there...

[holds it out to Gilbert to show him!]

[dramatispersonae]

He nods. "It looks good! You fixed it ... "

[sightunseen]

Now we just need to fix the room up...

[opening the door :|a]

[dramatispersonae]

"I cleaned, but I'm not sure what else to do ... "

[sightunseen]

There either has to be a way to change the book, or this wall. Mm, a room nicely closed up is different than this. . . ~

[dramatispersonae]

"I'm not sure about the wall that could be hard ... But you could write in the book? That would be easy."

[sightunseen]

Once you begin writing things, it can be very hard to stop. . . wouldn't chipping away the wall be safer?

[seriously asking!]

[dramatispersonae]

Gilbert looks at her, surprised before slightly amazed, when he nods.

"T-That could work, yeah ... "

[sightunseen]

I'm sure that you can find something with a sharp edge around here! A knife, perhaps...?

[eyes on his wrists]

[dramatispersonae]

Immediately, he clamps a hand over them.

"That wasn't ... A knife. But there were the scissors ... "

[sightunseen]

Oh, I do still have those...

[hands them over]

...would you tell me what it was, if not a knife? If I asked?

[dramatispersonae]

He cautiously reaches to taken one.

"Mm, it was chains."

[sightunseen]

[it's just one pair! moves back into the room to watch him chip away]

Why were you chained?

[dramatispersonae]

Gilbert weighs that question before slowly starting to chip at the wall.

"I was chained ... Because of my past."

[sightunseen]

[waits silently for him to continue, looking down at Yuri's book in her hands again]

[dramatispersonae]

He lets the silence hang. It doesn't look like he wants to go on.

[sightunseen]

[after a while]

Mister Gilbert... what do you mean?

[quietly, tactfully; she won't insist further]

[dramatispersonae]

There's a slight jump at that, then he glances over before going back to his work, a little more vigorously.

"What happened, what I didn't remember then remembered ... It was awful, and Vincent knew. He was trying to hide it all ... "

[sightunseen]

I... think I knew that...

[reading the last page of Yuri's book again]

So...?