♚ Tenth Move - {Text}

[faustianphantom]

{Private to Sebastian;}

Sebastian, do you know a boy by the name of Alois Trancy? He claims that I injured him and that he is my enemy. I do not recall him in the least.

{/}

{Private to Cain & Merry;}

I trust that both of you have survived this latest curse? I heard a rumor that people might lose their heads. That sounds quite unpleasant.

{/}

{Private to Alice;}

You have been awfully quiet lately.

{/}

How irritating.

Comments

[Private]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

What of them?

[Private]

[queens-guarddog.livejournal.com]

Where are they?

[Private]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

My father, I presume, is somewhere in London. And far better that he's there than here again, though I should like to finish the business I have with him soon. My mother, though, is dead.

[Private]

[queens-guarddog.livejournal.com]

That sounds complicated.

[Private]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Not especially. Think of it like this: my mother is dead and my father is my enemy.

What of your parents?

[Private]

[queens-guarddog.livejournal.com]

Mm.

They're dead.

[Private]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I'm terribly sorry to hear that.

[Private]

[queens-guarddog.livejournal.com]

I'm not upset.

[Private]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

As you say, then.

[Private]

[queens-guarddog.livejournal.com]

Mourning death is pointless.

[Private]

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's so pointless. Not for some measure of it.

[Private]

[queens-guarddog.livejournal.com]

It only stands in the way. I have other things to concentrate on.