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life_inshadow ([personal profile] life_inshadow) wrote2011-12-02 09:02 pm

Room 223, Friday Night

The spellbooks from Tara's shelves -- and more than a few that she'd borrowed from the shop -- were scattered around her bed, the result of what felt like weeks trying to get something useful out of them. She'd heard the announcement about auditors, which sent her back to the beginning for any reference.

Conclusion: Nothing, though there was a kind of "accounting demon" that Tara would really prefer not to have balance her checkbook.

She sighed and flopped back on the floor, then flicked a cat toy toward Mr. Moxy, mildly pleased she could at least make him happy.

It was that kind of exciting Friday night.

[OOC: Door open, post open!]

[identity profile] inaskinnyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-03 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Susan didn't like having something to do right now, so she took to things like wandering the halls. And apparently, glancing into rooms of people she only knew from a class.

"Not finding anything?" If she saw books lying out everywhere, she would just take a wild flying leap and assume they were focusing on research.

[identity profile] holy-daughter.livejournal.com 2011-12-03 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Lucrezia's letters from Cesare had become increasingly odd. Requests to send her love to la bella Farnese were met with a polite inquiry: with which fair lady she was implying him to be consorting? Nonsense. Giulia Farnese was their father's mistress, and had replaced their mother by their father's side at most Papal events. Cesare could not misunderstand her meaning.

As worrisome as the letters were, it was far worse when they ceased. Her dove, St. Cecilia, did not return. Had she been devoured by the aching void? Had all of Rome? Papa, Mama, Cesare?

She could not stand this torment any longer. The doors were closing, and she needed to make a choice.

"I beg your pardon," she said, standing in the doorway of the other girl's room, looking lost. "I believe I may be in need of assistance?"

Presumptuous to ask a stranger, but she was low on alternatives.