Giriel gets a flat look at the pointed reminder of Lotus's secrets, with a scowl deepening as she goes on. "Witch. If I wanted to do this in the safest, most efficient, and most likely to succeed manner, I would have poisoned both their foods with something that'd cause a long, drowsy sleep. I would have sent off people who were disguised as them, and we would still have them. I am doing this roundabout and messy method because I want them to have a chance at happiness in spite of my orders."

She huffs out a breath, and looks down at her mask. "I'm going to guess you all don't have the plays this is from, do you? Hell, I'd be surprised if Azazuka knows it, and her family has trade connections far enough north to... well. She might have had the players visit."

A sigh, this time, and she holds up the mask, blue bird covering half her face, words tumbling out. "There are four siblings. The Heir, the Duelist, the Monk, and the Drunk. There's a girl. The siblings, doesn't matter if they're boys or girls, but the Swan is always a girl. And they all fall for her. Head over heels, absolutely smitten. And they start to quarrel. Because they all want the same girl, and they're all stupid, because it's a play. So you have miscommunications, and slights that weren't meant to be slights, and all the while, the backdrop, it's getting darker, and darker. And it all comes to a head, when the Monk gets called to service, they've spent too much time away from the monastery. He starts singing how he has a duty, but love calls to him, and he sets the stage on fire. Real surprise, first time you see it. It ends with them dead, the Drunk exiled for killing them, the Duelist maimed, and the Heir getting the girl in a political marriage."

"I don't [i]get[/i] to chase this. I have a job, a duty, and oaths. So trust me when I say, I want other people to have it."

It's raining, but she doesn't care, her umbrella is a weapon and she doesn't want to hold it right now.

[quote]Opening up to fix Angry, leaving only the Guilt.[/quote]