Flashback [Ignotus Everto] Success in Circuit Lies

[Philomena]

Those little fingers, probing, directing, suggesting in Minnie's brain, so subtle that she hardly noticed they were not fingers of her own thought, withdrew now. She felt a sort of hollowness to her brain, a feeling as if the plank upon which she walked no longer stretched over a floor, but over a void - she still stood, but that upon which she stood had no foundations. The man changed in her eyes, almost alchemically, now that he was no longer available. She felt... rejected. Thwarted. In her it was a subtle feeling, a sort of pounding of a hammer on an anvil in her heart that had been pounded many times before. In Lanie, she could see it more obvious. Lanie caught the bread, and smelled it, and looked back at the man, and Hannah, now receding.

"You'll come find me 'gain, 'en?" she called out to him. It was not even the bread lost, it was... well, none of those waves of emotion she had felt from the man were love, which of course was what she was really hungry for. But like the ash in the supper, they filled an ache, even if they did not sustain it.

Minnie came forward to put a hand on Lanie's back. hesitated, stood still, rocking on her heels, thoughtfully.

The man turned back, with a Cheshire grin, and smiled, "If you insist, I promise you, child."

"Lanie!" she shouted back, with an embarrased suddenness, "Lanie, I'm at the Kennel! And this is Minnie. You'll come back?"

He grinned without even turning, his arm wrapping around Hannah's shoulder with a sinuous weave of movement, "Lanie, then. Yes, darlings. I'll come back for you, then. Someday."

And then, Hannah, old enough now that lonely desperation mixed with hormones, curled into the man a little in their walk. And then, they were gone.

Minnie frowned, shaking her head, the whole weird hollowness of the situation taking on a semi-surreal form in her memory. She looked at the white bread in Lanie's hand, then quietly crouched back over the ash-pile. Lanie needed it more than her, and it was her good looks that earned it anyway, she supposed. That was only fair.

[Delirium]

Experience Rewards

Philomena :

Experience

Investigation	1xp
Rhetoric	1xp
Interrogation	1xp
Observation	1xp

Lores:
An orphan's hunger
The danger of an artist's proposition
Possessive love of Lanie
Acquaintance: Hannah the thief of artists

Ignotus - mr Artist :

Experience

Acting	2xp
Hypnotism	3xp
Rhetoric	2xp

Lores:
Playing the artist
Acquaintance: Lanie the orphan
Acquaintance: Minnie the orphan
Acquaintance: Hannah

Notes: Wonderful thread you guys! I especially loved how much Lanie and Hannah enhanced it. It was wonderful to read about Minnie's and Lanie's relationship

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