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desolation) wrote2020-08-06 10:40 pm
desolation) wrote2020-08-06 10:40 pm
So I thought you should be the first to know that we've made great progress on the shop.
Enough to open this month, if you'd be amenable.
Enough to open this month, if you'd be amenable.
If you believe it is in a ready state, then I trust your word.
Am I to be there for its opening?
Am I to be there for its opening?
Of course. If you'd like to take part, you would always be welcome.
We may want to consider bringing on more help to fill various assisting roles once we've officially opened our doors.
We may want to consider bringing on more help to fill various assisting roles once we've officially opened our doors.
I can make appearances as necessary, but employment for others to provide service would be best.
As we both well know, my business with clientele is best kept to its limitations.
As we both well know, my business with clientele is best kept to its limitations.
I would never expect you to partake in the tedium of sales.
I believe that is what they in business refer to as a "silent partner." Or at least that is among what I have been learning in my courses.
[ business management had seemed an especially prudent choice among the list of courses she'd elected to pursue for the week. ]
I believe that is what they in business refer to as a "silent partner." Or at least that is among what I have been learning in my courses.
[ business management had seemed an especially prudent choice among the list of courses she'd elected to pursue for the week. ]
I see you've done quite a bit of studying on the matter.
Were you always interested in pursuing work as a merchant of sorts?
Were you always interested in pursuing work as a merchant of sorts?
Only within the last few days. It's all been very illuminating.
Not specifically, but the shop belonged to a dear friend and I suppose I felt more of an affinity to everything on offering here than I would if it were a clothing boutique.
Or any one of the number of establishments that sell pleasure devices.
Not specifically, but the shop belonged to a dear friend and I suppose I felt more of an affinity to everything on offering here than I would if it were a clothing boutique.
Or any one of the number of establishments that sell pleasure devices.
Truthfully, I am plenty relieved it hadn't been a shop for clothing. Styling you in the samples would be far too much of a distraction.
Even more so were it a shop for those devices. I'd have to test each and every one on you to be sure of its value.
Even more so were it a shop for those devices. I'd have to test each and every one on you to be sure of its value.
Edited 2020-10-02 04:10 (UTC)
So you would take advantage of your managerial status to sample the wares, my lady?
Said as if you would not find yourself on the receiving end of attempted tests every now and then. Besides, if memory serves, I believe there are some that are intended for shared use.
Said as if you would not find yourself on the receiving end of attempted tests every now and then. Besides, if memory serves, I believe there are some that are intended for shared use.
If I am not to take advantage, then what use is the status at all?
I would ask you to tell me more about these, but I would much prefer for you to provide a demonstration.
I would ask you to tell me more about these, but I would much prefer for you to provide a demonstration.
[ There've been worse places to walk. Many of them, but Arthur has always had a little trouble with delicacy. He's not a gentle man. He can walk a path and not look back or not look down, but this time, the other side is unknown, and there is no path to follow — only to make his own. ]
[ No adventure can be promised here, but he swore his help, and she will get his help. ]
[ A gift never hurts one's cause, does it? It's a small box, with a few bite-sized cakes in cups (cupcakes, the person had explained) with a card, ]
Should I continue to seek your favour?
[ No adventure can be promised here, but he swore his help, and she will get his help. ]
[ A gift never hurts one's cause, does it? It's a small box, with a few bite-sized cakes in cups (cupcakes, the person had explained) with a card, ]
Should I continue to seek your favour?
[ what had occurred that night had been a mistake, one that she will come to regret despite the lack of awareness she had in her mind then. she had returned to a youthful fantasy, a dream that had long since passed, and it had been with rage that she had awoken from it, cheeks still sticky with salt from her tears.
she had not sought to find him afterwards, knowing she might just cut him through if she ever laid her eyes on him again.
when the box is found in her quarters, it takes everything she has not to take her knife and puncture the desserts right through.
soon after, she sends a message, through the device, to give him his answer. she would not waste a sheet of paper to even scrawl it. ]
You shall not.
she had not sought to find him afterwards, knowing she might just cut him through if she ever laid her eyes on him again.
when the box is found in her quarters, it takes everything she has not to take her knife and puncture the desserts right through.
soon after, she sends a message, through the device, to give him his answer. she would not waste a sheet of paper to even scrawl it. ]
You shall not.
Edited (whoops, i should clarify) 2020-10-06 03:41 (UTC)
[ oof. ]
[ There have been much deeper cuts. Wounds slower to heal. And yet. ]
[ He waits a day. Morgana's anger will not cool, nor will she forget, but he waits nonetheless. ]
I will tell no one.
[ There have been much deeper cuts. Wounds slower to heal. And yet. ]
[ He waits a day. Morgana's anger will not cool, nor will she forget, but he waits nonetheless. ]
I will tell no one.
[ she cares not if she cuts him.
he has already seen more than he would be allowed. taken advantage of corners that were better left unseen. ]
Do you think that is my concern?
You have already tried to peel me apart to satisfy your own curiosity. Brag your victory all that you wish.
he has already seen more than he would be allowed. taken advantage of corners that were better left unseen. ]
Do you think that is my concern?
You have already tried to peel me apart to satisfy your own curiosity. Brag your victory all that you wish.
[ He won't deny, he could have left. He needn't have asked her anything that he did. He needn't have promised. ]
Something in us is the same.
If you'd had the chance, you would not have looked away.
Something in us is the same.
If you'd had the chance, you would not have looked away.
I am nothing like you.
[ but she is.
perhaps that is what angers her the most. ]
You had no right to look within me as you did.
The girl you met that night is dead and you'd do best not to seek her out again.
[ but she is.
perhaps that is what angers her the most. ]
You had no right to look within me as you did.
The girl you met that night is dead and you'd do best not to seek her out again.
[ She is. ]
[ — but that doesn't sting. He doesn't need to hear an admittance of kinship from her. Arthur knows they are bound together, all that matters now is whether she cuts the knot or it keeps tightening, around them both. He can walk the path of fate if that's what needed of him. He can keep being near her no matter what. ]
So it seems.
My promise hasn't changed.
[ Not the promise of a prince or the oath of a knight, but of one familiar soul to another. He will help her. ]
[ — but that doesn't sting. He doesn't need to hear an admittance of kinship from her. Arthur knows they are bound together, all that matters now is whether she cuts the knot or it keeps tightening, around them both. He can walk the path of fate if that's what needed of him. He can keep being near her no matter what. ]
So it seems.
My promise hasn't changed.
[ Not the promise of a prince or the oath of a knight, but of one familiar soul to another. He will help her. ]
Perhaps I am not opposed to the idea of you commandeering the items.
Some of them I have never purchased, but I would very much like to see you taking your enjoyment from them. So that alone is reason enough to indulge.
Some of them I have never purchased, but I would very much like to see you taking your enjoyment from them. So that alone is reason enough to indulge.
So let us plan a night, in which I shall arrange to have my legs parted well for you.
[ it is his stubborness she hates most, but it's also merely another quality they share well, the insistence to strive forward once a goal is set in their mind. if only he could let go of this ridiculous endeavor to see through to her.
she doesn't think she'll crumble so easily, but she doesn't know how far he'll go, either. ]
I no longer need it.
I am not so frail as to need your hand to stand me up. I have taken care of myself alone far longer than you could understand, and I am in no need of rescue.
she doesn't think she'll crumble so easily, but she doesn't know how far he'll go, either. ]
I no longer need it.
I am not so frail as to need your hand to stand me up. I have taken care of myself alone far longer than you could understand, and I am in no need of rescue.
It would be best to begin early, then, for I plan to render all of your hours that evening well-occupied.
[ — he would not like to be so pressing that part of her crumbles away. Perhaps, only the part that kept those chains on her, or the wounds fresh. ]
[ Arthur'd nursed his for years, and for years they'd followed him even to sleep. He'd been alone then. ]
[ Can he leave her alone now? He knows the answer. ]
I understand.
[ and, after it, ]
I will still be here, when you stand up.
And behind you, when you move forward.
[ Arthur'd nursed his for years, and for years they'd followed him even to sleep. He'd been alone then. ]
[ Can he leave her alone now? He knows the answer. ]
I understand.
[ and, after it, ]
I will still be here, when you stand up.
And behind you, when you move forward.
[ she doesn't respond again. not tonight.
but regrettably, his words do not leave her and she fears that with her, they will stay, left to circle in her thoughts for the foreseeable future. already, she has dreamt of his face, nothing of visible context, but enough that she knows their fates are tied one way or another.
she won't reply, neither to push him away again, knowing well that he carries enough stubbornness to ignore it, nor to give him the satisfaction that she's listening.
right now, she needs time, she thinks. either to accept it as it is or to will herself to better keep herself at a distance β of which it is, she does not yet know. ]
but regrettably, his words do not leave her and she fears that with her, they will stay, left to circle in her thoughts for the foreseeable future. already, she has dreamt of his face, nothing of visible context, but enough that she knows their fates are tied one way or another.
she won't reply, neither to push him away again, knowing well that he carries enough stubbornness to ignore it, nor to give him the satisfaction that she's listening.
right now, she needs time, she thinks. either to accept it as it is or to will herself to better keep herself at a distance β of which it is, she does not yet know. ]
I have heard tell of other witches in this city who seek to form a coven. To what end, I do not know, but the one who summoned me was acquainted with a woman I trusted before her departure from Duplicity.
I thought it prudent that you be informed, should they contact you on their own at any point. The one who engendered the idea is called Nicholas Scratch.
I thought it prudent that you be informed, should they contact you on their own at any point. The one who engendered the idea is called Nicholas Scratch.
A coven of witches led by a man? How absolutely absurd.
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