OPEN RP POST⇒ STARRY STARRY NIGHT

[recluserose]

You are in the town of Blackgale, specifically within the town's pride and joy, The Blackgale Rose Garden. Tonight the garden is basking in the soft glow from the full moon and stars, making the hundreds of white roses look especially luminescent.

This garden, however, is far from an ordinary garden.

That's sort of hard to miss when little bright pearls of starlight start falling from the sky like snow and disappearing once they hit the grass and flowers. Fancy a romantic date? A casual nighttime stroll? It's all up to you. Doesn't matter who you are or where you're from.

Oh yeah, and someone has magically set up a music player somewhere playing this song.

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[spellbent]

Do you often speak to tea?

[recluserose]

Just recently decided to dabble a bit in fortune-telling. As a witch, I won't have the accuracy like a precognitive would, but it can be helpful and amusing in its own way.

[spellbent]

Or you could just be stringing people along.

[recluserose]

I never said I was good at it! And I'm not trying to string them along.

[spellbent]

You just said it yourself that you lack accuracy. What else would you call it?

[recluserose]

[Stuffing her mouth with a cookie so she won't have to respond >:[]

[spellbent]

I thought so.

[recluserose]

[ANGRY GULP.]

Hn! Think what you like then.

In any case, you told me you were having trouble with a fire elemental. Feel like elaborating on that?

[spellbent]

It's a rather long and complicated story, but the short version is: I want to kill her boyfriend. She didn't like that much.

[recluserose]

...

... That's a bit of an understatement isn't it?

[spellbent]

Just a bit. She was burning through my wards, so I thought it best to make myself scarce.

[recluserose]

I would say that I'd be angry if my special someone was being threatened-- [Not gonna mentioned what happened a year ago :|]

But I don't know the reason, so I won't go that route yet.

[spellbent]

Oh, no. I have entirely selfish reasons for wanting to kill him. He has something that I want- something that I'm owed- and I doubt he'll just give it to me.

[recluserose]

[Refilling her cup silently, but she keeps it on the table instead of raising it to her lips.]

...

I'm sorry to hear that then.

[spellbent]

[ He quirks an eyebrow ] Does that bother you?

[recluserose]

Yes. Just a little. [Drops a few lumps of sugar into her tea, but not stirring.

And the music is fading away too. Now they just have a dark garden to have tea in.]

[spellbent]

So I see.

[recluserose]

Ambitious aren't you? I suppose when you're pursuing something of worth, there isn't room for diplomacy. [Sounding a bit icy here :|a]

[spellbent]

The time for diplomacy has long since passed.

[ watching her carefully ] Did I hit a nerve?

[recluserose]

I can't imagine what you're suggesting Mr. West.

[spellbent]

I'll take that as a yes.

I've made it no secret that I'm not a good person, and perhaps you would have found that out sooner if you had asked the right questions.

[recluserose]

I had my suspicions, but I'm not an impulsive person. [Tea is her only friend now.]

[spellbent]

Well, that's your own fault, isn't it?

[recluserose]

Perhaps. But quite frankly, although your current situation doesn't strike the right chords with me, I don't particularly feel like starting an argument over your affairs.

[spellbent]

Good choice. I would have hated to go from one fight straight into another.