[ Harrow... well, she's used to how goth she is by now, so it's fine. ]
I guess there is something peaceable about melancholy. [ Just a dim, constant sort of despair lingers here, rather than devastating sadness. ] I should've expected that you'd find something comforting about this sort of thing.
. . . The only time I went into the River, it was dreadful. Some of the spirits there are predatory. They take the forms of things likely to be upsetting to you. I found myself surrounded by two hundred dead children of my House, all straining to pull me under. But it was only an illusion, intended to keep me from escaping. The real spirits of the dead I once knew are something separately from the ones that feed.
[ She raises an eyebrow at this, because it's a lot. And though she's kind of used to doing this now, she still careful when she rests her hand atop of Harrow's. ]
There are both bitter and kind ghosts back in my home as well. I've only experienced them in passing, but you know more of death than I do.
The Fifth House in particular, and the Eighth. I came to know the Lady Pent of the Fifth a little - brilliant, brilliant woman. I had never thought highly of spirit callers until I came to converse with her about her studies. [She's fond, and then immediately switches to dismissive, to add - ] Everyone I have ever met from the Eighth House is an fanatical idiot who simply follows rote instruction without any deeper understanding of principles.
[Anyway. She becomes a little conscious of her rambling.]
. . . It has been a week, has it not? Ah - I am so sick of being cursed into uselessness at inopportune moments.
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chevaleros) wrote2021-02-08 10:30 pm
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[Bad!! But Harrow appears to like it.]
Even if it is false, there is something peaceful about it.
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I guess there is something peaceable about melancholy. [ Just a dim, constant sort of despair lingers here, rather than devastating sadness. ] I should've expected that you'd find something comforting about this sort of thing.
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[So. Not comforting at all.]
Comparatively, this is rather nice.
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There are both bitter and kind ghosts back in my home as well. I've only experienced them in passing, but you know more of death than I do.
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I wouldn't call myself a spirit expert in particular. It's a different discipline, one I do not excel at.
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Ah, does it fall under the dominion of another... House? [ she doesn't know what any of the others do, actually. ]
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[Anyway. She becomes a little conscious of her rambling.]
. . . It has been a week, has it not? Ah - I am so sick of being cursed into uselessness at inopportune moments.