AMALTHEA

[soulping]

[At any time when they are not in the hot seat, PARTICIPATING MEMBERS may slip away to their dressing room. It's small and comfortable, with seats for everyone, and water. Otherwise, it's bare.]

[They will not be permitted to stay in the room when they are up on the hot seat.]

Comments

[bypastime]

Viva-! [SPARE THIS CHILD]

[worldsaving]

This is such bullshit-!

[ the brave face is gone, and so is the carefree teenager inflection she normally takes. ]

[bypastime]

I-I know, I...I know. I know it is, but...b-but it's okay, it'll be fine, you'll be fine, we'll f-figure something out-

[that is such bullshit and she knows it and she wishes she could stop rambling when it's so obviously not true but she can't and she hates it-]

[worldsaving]

[ sitting heavily. ]

Ugh... I feel sick.

[bypastime]

[Kneeling next to Viva and placing her hands on her shoulders, trying not to get too close to the black marks.]

D-does it hurt...?

[worldsaving]

No. [ her face screws up ] But there's- something in my head.

[unguilded]

[ SPARE BOTH OF THESE CHILDREN. (shh mint you are a child ok ur innocence) ]

No matter how this ends, we'll take care of you.

[bypastime]

Rook, Viva is...Nyssa did something, I-I don't know...

[unguilded]

We'll keep an eye on her, and we'll help her however we can if she needs our help.

No matter what she does, we'll stick together as a team.

[bypastime]

Has she ever done this before? What is that mark? She said...she said something about puppets, but we c-can't just...th-there has to be a way to get rid of it, right?

[getting increasingly upset as her mind runs through all the myriad (horrible, terrible) possibilities]

[unguilded]

... I don't know. I don't know if this is similar to what she did to the Cats back then...

But whatever it is, we'll do all that we can to help it. For all of our sakes.