❧ Emerald (Game 23)

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourselves in an ornate garden maze, hedges towering high above your head. If you continue to look up, you’ll see a dark sky, glittering with bright stars in unrecognizable constellations. The moon is full and bright. The leaves of the hedges are dense and dark green, riddled with bunches of tiny white flowers and the occasional cluster of red berries.

There are four exits around in the hedge around you, and a gazebo hung heavily with blossoming vines in the center of the small clearing. The air is hushed and quiet; your voices are clear, but other sounds are muffled, as if unwilling to break the silence.

Comments

Re: ❧ . . . LOVING

[aberdevine]

[... sighs.]

Would you want to be left?

Re: ❧ . . . LOVING

[steampunked]

Let's put it this way. If you leave him here right now, you'll be leaving me too.

Re: ❧ . . . LOVING

[aberdevine]

... aaaaaaaaaaaaaugh.

Re: ❧ . . . LOVING

[steampunked]

Yeah. I thought that would be different.

If you think we don't owe anything to him because he's a knight, you might want to think about the knights who protected the kids during Three's game. You think it's okay to just leave their friend behind?

Re: ❧ . . . LOVING

[aberdevine]

And you think it's okay to completely discard what he wants?

Re: ❧ . . . LOVING

[steampunked]

Nobody wants to be left, Viridian. They just say that because they think it's the right thing to say.