I1: Priority Mail

by **Melpomene** » Wed Apr 01, 2015 4:04 pm

"I really don't think you would want me to concern myself with your personal life again." she says, sounding amused.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Sun Apr 05, 2015 12:43 pm

That's around the time when the front door is unlocked and a couple moments later Nailah steps into the living room with an arm full of books and loose papers clutched to her chest.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 12:25 pm

"Which is why it's absurd to think I'll be treating you as my personal advice columnist," she frowns.

by **Melpomene** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 12:35 pm

"A shame but not particularly surprising, yes? Then again, the fact that you decided to call shows that maybe you just need to be enticed a little bit."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 12:35 pm

Meanwhile Nailah quirks an eye brow and looks at Sam quizzically.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 12:36 pm

"The fact that I decided to call is because you decided to extort me."

by **Melpomene** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 12:44 pm

"True and it worked quite well. In part because I think I wasn't particularly unreasonable in my demands. Just like I don't think this suggestion is unreasonable. You could find someone who is old, about to die by themselves, abandoned by everyone around them. Give them some company and peace of mind in their final moments. Or you could decide that any suggestion from my mouth is so tainted that you would rather let someone fade away into nothing, all but forgotten in some retirement home, simply to spite me at their expense."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 1:56 pm

"As I said, they don't need me to acknowledge them. Their lives have meaning, regardless."

by **Melpomene** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:07 pm

"Please Sam, we're both telepaths and we both know that emotions don't work like that. If you don't believe it then go look at the ones who aren't even dieing but abandoned none the less. At best you'll find melancholic nostalgia in their eyes. I know you desperately want every word from my mouth to be wrong but that's taking it a little far. Think about it. Until next time, Sammy." And with that she hangs up, presumably to make sure the conversation ends with her words ringing in Sam's ears and not the other way around.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:08 pm

Nailah is still looking at Sam, miming a phone held to her head and mouthing the words 'Who's that?'.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:12 pm

"...Mary Bell," she sighs.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:14 pm

"Yikes. That explains the frown."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:16 pm

"Set up shop in Madripoor again. Threatened to send brainwashed slaves to commit terrorist acts in London."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:17 pm

"I don't think I saw anything like that..." she says, trying to juggle her armful of books and notes to flip through her journal.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:25 pm

"Perhaps because her demands were a phone call," she says, holding up the phone for emphasis.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:32 pm

"That seems relatively harmless, all things considered. That can't be all of it."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:35 pm

"I'm sure she wants to influence me, but she also seems... lonely. It's a bit sad."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:00 pm

"Are you sure sad is the word you're looking for and not 'pathetic'?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:02 pm

"We already knew she fixates."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:05 pm

"I can't say I'm surprised. Despite the fact that I didn't see it coming." she says, walking over to the coffee table and unloading her things on it. A couple loose pages immediately go spilling to the floor.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:08 pm

"Project's getting a bit involved, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:11 pm

"There are some essays in there I need to grade. At least I hope that I didn't leave them in the Lighthouse. I took a small break from puzzling visions together though because Roland let me take a look around his collection. Did you know that there's an old bunker underneath the mansion?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:16 pm

"I think Braddock mentioned something getting put in after the Blitz."

"Or are you thinking it's older?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:23 pm

"No, I don't think so. Though the things piling up in there certainly are."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:33 pm

"Figures he's a hoarder. I may yet be, in my dotage."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:47 pm

"Whenever that may be, aye?" she smiles, though there's a bit of a forced undercurrent to it.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:49 pm

"Something you want to talk about?" She quirks a brow.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:52 pm

"Oh, no no, it's nothing."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:01 pm

"If you're certain. I've just been talking to a murderess. Sane company is a breath of fresh air."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:06 pm

"By the time you're old a handful of my things will be sitting in a pile of things among other keepsakes, just like the old dresses Roland has kept around in his collection. It is what it is, right?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:12 pm

She frowns.

"...you don't know that."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:17 pm

"Unfortunately I kind of do."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:18 pm

"You've never seen that far ahead before."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:30 pm

"It's not very clear but I found that it's easier if I just try to sense my own presence. I started because I kept being distracted by unlikely scenarios of dieing, especially back in that parallel world, but there's always something, even just trivial things like slipping in the shower and breaking my neck is something that could happen. Anyway, the point is that I've gotten into the habit of just avoiding those branches and learning to distinguish between the ones in which I'm still alive. They just all tend to go out in time. Far enough away that I can't see much else in them but enough to tell that everything grows dim eventually."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:38 pm

"Well, I'm... I'm sorry I brought it up."

"You're more than just a future memory, to me. You know that."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:46 pm

"I do. I really do. It was just sobering to see someone on the other side of that. And it's not a foregone conclusion. There's a couple paths I can see that stretch past what my power can reach and this is what I've been putting together to help me get there." she smiles brightly and maybe a tad obsessively.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:47 pm

"The project, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 5:30 pm

"It's been getting some traction recently, but I've been looking into this for a while..." she admits. "It was supposed to be a surprise." she smiles faintly.

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 5:41 pm

"Well I'm not... judging you for that, really."

"I wouldn't mind at all if you stuck around."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:38 pm

"I just didn't want this to be something that weighed on your mind. Well... and I might have been worried that you might disapprove of the things I looked into for it."

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