♪♫ Nightingale's Heart ♪♫

[dramatispersonae]

You hear the sound of clockwork gears clicking together, steadily slowing down.

Tick ... tick ... tick ...

Just before they stop, church bells begin to ring.

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[fierte]

[♪♫]

You are in a dark room; there is no light and no sound, and this goes on until it hits the very edge of being too much when small gold letters burn themselves into existence, revealing two doors. The left one is boarded and chained; the right one stands wide open. There is light beyond it.

Once upon a time, in a certain treacherous kingdom, a fourteen-year-old princess ruled from the summit.

[heroicmemory]

So what exactly are we doing here?

[crueltobekind]

[GOING RIGHT FOR THE LIGHT there has been way more than enough dark already!!]

[artificialcommand]

[taking a moment to orient himself before heading straight for the right door]

[blackjacked]

[ah. . .]

[going immediately for the chained door, reaching out to place his hand against it]

[antreegonist]

Oh--

*blinks against the letters' light, and goes to the boarded door; not pushing, just laying a hand on it*

[givemeallyourlove]

A princess, huh.

[let's head to the light!]

[badnewsboy]

[a little tired, but this boy is a trooper.

heading to the boarded and chained door, looking for any details that may stand out]

It's as if you're chaining up a something, eh ...?

[heavens_mirror]

[. . .]

[glancing at the cordoned-off door before heading for the open one]

[brotagonist]

Nightingale...?

[goes to the letters first, actually; reaching to touch them.]

[telepathetically]

[but i like quiet]

[right dooooor]

[dommage]

[...]

[approaching the chained door]

[digitalemperor]

Ah... Fourteen is kind of young to rule huh...

the throne room

[fierte]

[♪♫]

You are standing in an opulent throne room; the door through which you came is gone, if you turn to look -- there is a wide set of double-doors across from you, covered in a fantastic array of intricate elaborate carvings. The floor is made of marble, the carpet is made out of plush red velvet, there are three chandeliers of gold and crystal hanging from the ceiling. The throne itself, on a raised black dias, is apparently made of solid gold. On the wall behind the throne hangs an elaborate tapestry, detailing a lush countryside surrounding a castle that appears to be covered in gold leaf. One wall is covered in heavy black velvet curtains.

Very distantly, you can still hear the sound of church bells. They ring fourteen times before coming to a stop.

Re: the throne room

[crueltobekind]

[Ohhh this looks exactly like somewhere I belong]

[Heading up to check out that throne]

Re: the throne room

[artificialcommand]

More than a little decadent...

[heading across the floor to inspect the tapestry]

Re: the throne room

[heavens_mirror]

[wow. . .]



[walking slowly across the room as she looks around and stares up at the chandeliers, so fancy]

Re: the throne room

[givemeallyourlove]

[whistles~]

Fancy digs. [since Dragonfly's at the throne, let's go check out those double-doors]

Re: the throne room

[heroicmemory]

[low whistle, going to check out whats behind the black velvet curtains]

Fancy.

Re: the throne room

[badnewsboy]

[skittering about unabashedly, heading up onto the dais and poking around the throne like a rude person. walking around it, if possible]

Re: the throne room

[telepathetically]

Wow...

[haruki is at the tapestry so i will puppy after haruki]

[? ? ?]

[fierte]

[♪♫]

It's another dark room -- barely larger than a closet, really. It stinks of blood.

Re: [? ? ?]

[dommage]

['-']

[feeling around, seeing if he can touch anything]

Lucifenia

[fierte]

[♪♫]

The path is steep, but not enough to make walking difficult. At the end, you arrive at a bustling city, full of people going about their daily lives. People are predominantly wearing different shades of yellow, though a large minority are wearing Coral-pink, and there are flashes of other familiar colors may be seen in the crowd. It is your ideal storybook scene of happy and hard workers, with nothing out of place ...

... except for the large guillotine that stands in the center of the square. Judging by the blade, it's been recently used ...

There is a woman in a hood and cloak standing in front of the guillotine, looking up at it.

Re: Lucifenia

[givemeallyourlove]

[raises an eyebrow and heads for that woman in a cloak to see who that is]

[because wow normality around something so dark is pretty morbid, and someone was recently executed, maybe she knows]

The Ballroom

[fierte]

You find yourself in a wide glittering ballroom, stretching as far and long as you can see, with walls that seem to stretch up endlessly, fading into darkness rather than a proper ceiling. Everything in this room appears to be made out of different alloys of gold: the floor, the walls, the fine decorations -- even the buntings strung up everywhere are heavily embroidered through with gold thread. The room is full of dancing people, all couples moving together in a jazzy sort of waltz They're all finely-dressed, in various shades of gold, with accents of pink and black throughout.

None of them have their heads; the stumps of their necks are all clean-cut, if still bloody.

Re: The Ballroom

[heavens_mirror]

[oh ballrooms I like ballrooms- where are their heads tho

gasping sharply and taking a step back, frozen there a moment before she takes a few shaky steps into the room]

the room that locks from the outside

[fierte]

The room you enter is dim and cool; there is a sense of opulent size, though not to the ridiculous extent of the ballroom before. There are windows, but the curtains have been tightly drawn, so that only a halo of light makes its way in. You can see the outline of some furnishings, though -- a wide canopy bed, a three-piece vanity with wide oval mirrors in ornate frames, a wardrobe that takes up a good quarter of the wall it's pressed against.

Somewhere in the dimness you can hear the sound of someone crying.

Re: the room that locks from the outside

[heroicmemory]

[walking towards the sound]

Hello?