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Joshua Christopher ([personal profile] ofhope) wrote in [community profile] paradisa2013-02-27 08:24 pm
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[Colette Brunel]

She agreed to move here.

[/Colette Brunel]

[Spike Spiegel]

If you want it back, come to the mansion where I live.

[ He would rather not have this kind of conversation over the journal because of recent filter shenanigans... But mostly because he'd like to see Spike's reaction in person, thanks.

[/Spike Spiegel]

You know, with all the secrets that have been spilled, you'd think something would change. Or is all the dramatic aftermath successfully being kept hidden, now? That's just a cheat. With all of the unique powers here, how did nobody blow a building up in a temper tantrum?
heloise: (@ / yellow)

action!

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Lucrezia isn't in the best state of mind. Her argument (it really was an argument, was it not?) with Stephanie has left her troubled, but it would not do to come visit in such a mood. It would upset him too, and she has tested him enough. So she sets her mind to a different purpose on this occasion, aside from scoping out her new abode-to-be, something lighter for once.

She has a peacock feather in hand and a box of sweets on the other when she arrives by the gates, only to realize she doesn't know how to walk into a mansion without being announced. What to do... ]
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heloise: (+ / crook)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Not the reception she is accustomed to, but she thinks she prefers this quieter one. This way she can reach for his hand without disapproving looks cast her way.

She offers him the box filled with canditi with her other hand, something closer to her time, fruits preserved in sugar and still not sweet enough to compare with the candies he might be more used to. ]


A doorbell may yet prove useful. Or a guard to call out your guests' names.
heloise: (+ / betroth)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Lucrezia might, though not at his expense. He mentioned once that crowds were disagreeable. Perhaps a quiet dinner or two later, but guests and maids were difficult to invite. His reputation does precede him.

The statue catches her attention for a moment, and there is a delay before she tries to tickle his neck with the feather at the question. ]


This one is for the cat, the box is for you.
heloise: (+ / long due)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
You call her Lucy?

[ And a pet rock! How like him. She just chuckles at her own thought and follows him in, casting her gaze about with breathless wonder. He did say it would be a mansion, large and quiet, but the palazzos in Rome were never so vast, and neither was Sforza's dark fortress any comparison to this. ]

You have many friends here already. But this place must be-- [ She sighs and laughs. ] You are in need of more than just a maid.
heloise: (+ / smile)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ He likes doing that, she notes, drop names as if she would recognize them right away. As if she has met them too. Like Colette and Rosette and now Fiore. She keeps the names in her pocket for better times to ask, now she only wants to see him happy to have her here. ]

You should ask me instead why I took so long to return the favor. That is candite.

Lucrezia steps closer to peer at his reaction to her gift, biting back a grin. She picks out one and holds it out for him to bite. ]

You are aware that inviting me here will not earn you more space on your bed?
heloise: (+ / place)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
Home run?

[ She thinks she can almost make sense of that, he means when she finally makes this place her home, perhaps? But these modern phrases never sound like what they really mean. ]

I would see none of them in the cellar. Except for the rock, perhaps, he would not make a good bedfellow.

[ Which isn't hard to believe in Paradisa, that a stone can pounce you with glee. But since he won't take that candy, well, she will just take the first one for herself. He still gets a poke on his lips though, a smear of sugar. ]
heloise: (@ / lips)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ And Lucrezia had got her hair nicely done today too, not that she really minds the ruffling. She takes as much pride in her appearance as she disregards any mess in the name of fun. Expensive dresses are worth the sacrifice for dancing in the rain. And this is better than that.

Only now he is talking too much, and the mention Zelman makes her a little sad for all the people that have come and gone. So she decides to distract him with more touching, leaning in to taste whatever sweetness is still on his lips.

She likes making the first move. ]


This is how I should like to be greeted next.
heloise: (+ / outwit)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Two, last I counted.

[ No skimping on the wishes here. She taps his cheek with a giggle and walks away to find the kitchen ahead of him, as best as she can in the sprawling mansion, at least. ]
heloise: (+ / brothel)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 10:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ The most excellent gourmet of course. But she moves to find her namesake cat first, grinning his way once she does, so as not to disturb its slumber. Not that it stops her from then trailing the feather along its spine, as lightly as a breath.

She speaks quietly too. ]


We should use something to count them. Coins, or seashells?
heloise: (& / state)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Need you ask?

[ She spares his glance and stops disturbing the cat's sleep, resorting to just watching it now. She only ventures a thumb to stroke its cheek. ]

Stephanie came back with a bottle of seashells for me once, after one of those expeditions.

[ That is a digression perhaps, or a clue. ]
heloise: (& / chin)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Lucy stirs finally, stretching her little jaw in the biggest yawn and drawing a chuckle from her. The cat still seems sleepy, looking about with bleary eyes first.

It is an advantage to have others believe yourself stronger than you are, or weaker. That's an advantage too. ]


For herself, perhaps. But not for those dear to her.
heloise: (& / time)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe...

[ The ending depends on him, but she isn't sure how to say that yet. The kitten is only just growing annoyed at the nap cut short, but claws can't hurt too much. Lucrezia tickles her tummy and withdraws her hand just in time to avoid a swipe. ]

The ending is not written yet.
heloise: (& / lock)

[personal profile] heloise 2013-02-28 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ She leaves the kitten be to face him. ]

What happens, Joshua, if then the other princesses said she is a fool for believing a frog is a prince? And what then if they saw him as no other but a little creature with a crown?

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