Visiting, Part 2

[Géraldine Grangier]

We left the building unhindered, mostly because I chose to go through the fosterling wing, and though the children were warm and happy to see me, they didn’t ask any questions. It was a choice I made, and I’d pondered over it a moment – Daniel perhaps would be there, and if he was, he would see Eddie, and understand that he’d lost all chances with me. I liked him, I didn’t want to break his heart, even if I’d told him before several times. But he was busy with Benito, still being the little devil that he was, and his attention was elsewhere.

Outside of the house, I smiled brightly, and said, “On to the Parrot, then!”

[Edwyn nó Camellia (D)]

I began to trudge slightly down hill and kept my arm about Dine’s waist helping to hold her up even if it were really not needed. It was the chivalrous thing to do and besides allowed me to remain closer at her side “On to the Parrot and I seriously hope he does not have a case of the runs.”

[Géraldine Grangier]

I gave a little chuckle for his jest. Eddie did let loose in my presence, and it flattered me a great deal. “Yes, let’s hope not,” I replied with a litlle giggle. “Though I wonder, what is playing now? It can’t be the Eisandine cycle again,” I mused, “it’s been a while already…”

His arm around my waist was reassuring and pleasant. I didn’t quite need to, but I leaned into his hold nonetheless, grateful for the intimacy of our touch.

[Edwyn nó Camellia (D)]

I shrugged “I get the feeling that as often as not they do whatever the whim is that strikes them. There is probably a real art form to being spontaneous that way as well. I am not sure how one would actually train for wit and impromptu but they apparently do.”

[Géraldine Grangier]

I smiled, pressing myself into his hold in a natural, graceful movement, and my hand rested on his comfortably. “I’m sure they have some measure of natural affinity for it, though,” I observed pensively. “Just like you and I have affinities for our respective cannon. They really do look at a lot of factors in a child, when choosing their house, and the parrot is held by all former adepts…”

[Edwyn nó Camellia (D)]

I nodded "True, though I suspect on occasion one gets it wrong." I gave her a soft pat as we walked "I mean it is often hard for one to know themselves let alone figure out what makes another react as they do."

[Géraldine Grangier]

“That’s true,” I replied as the thread down the mount was almost over and the animated streets of Night’s Doorstep sprawled before us. “You know, I’ve seen examples. We have a girl at Heliotrope who was cast with us for her curvy shape, but in truth, her personality is more that of an Alyssum’s.”

[Edwyn nó Camellia (D)]

I bobbed my head “We have similar ones at Camellia. Then I suspect simply being in one House or another tends to shape a person.” I smiled at the thought “I guess all of us have lives that are influenced by various acts of chance. Things might have turned out much differently except for a few turns of fate.” I gave her a small hug “Imagine now here we are walking down the streets of the mount.”

[Géraldine Grangier]

I let my body fall more closely into his embrace, smiling softly for his touch. “Yes, imagine,” I replied in a whisper. In truth, I didn’t want to think what else could have become of me. I could have been left to my own devices on Night’s Doorstep, for all I knew, and today be dead, or living in shame. “Things have a way of falling into place,” I whispered, “Don’t they?”

[Edwyn nó Camellia (D)]

I nodded “Yes, things tend to turn out as they should one way or another. After it is all said and done makes you wonder why you worried so much about the events while they were in fact happening.”

[Géraldine Grangier]

I shrugged. “Worrying is indeed a dangerous activity. I’ve found I havent’ worried much in this past month, though,” I said as we neared the establishment. It was true, and it had a lot to do with a certain adept of my acquaintance. There was the matter of my marque, though, and that did eat at me. I had to convince my self to go to the Salon once more.

[Edwyn nó Camellia (D)]

“Well I am trying to get out of the brooding habit though I hear tell some find it alluring” I gave a wink and paused at the door of the Parrot and then held it open for her. I soon followed with a flourishing bow laying it on a bit thick in a moment of whim.

[Géraldine Grangier]

I chuckled. Eddie wasn’t brooding much, save for that one time at the Adept’s Inn, the night we’d met. “You’re alluring no matter what mood you’re in,” I told him as I entered the Laughing Parrot. I laughed lightly for his extravagant bow. “Thank you, handsome lord,” I said with a ridiculous little curtsy.