Audience - Jacopo

[holyspirits]

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[holyspirits]

We're still looking into the events of the weekend. It really does appear to be an isolated incident, but it doesn't hurt to be thorough about it.

[ but ah? ]

It's Christmas, yeah. How do you celebrate then? [ they are not from the middle ages. ]

[obdure]

I see. It would be too good to be true if you could find it in the library, but it was worth a shot.

[ He's sympathetic. ]

... Well, gifts are exchanged between those with legal relationships, not everyone. There's also a festival.

[holyspirits]

Even if the exact answers aren't there, I was hoping to find something comparable. I ended up researching a few other things, too, but I don't know how relevant they may end up being.

[ thank you for the sympathy in these trying times. ]

That's not too off. You still exchange gifts and there are parties and other celebrations depending on how you like to spend the day. Here, it looks like gifts and... a market? We can go look if you'd like.

[obdure]

You won't know until you apply them, I suppose.

[ Thinks... ]

I did peruse the wares a bit, but not all the stalls. [ He had just been wandering and looking. ] Did you not want to pick up your present first?

[ Looks at the boxes under the tree. ]

[holyspirits]

[ i see....dw did not send me a notif and i assumed you didn't love me anymore.......

anyway this seems valid. ]

At least it's worth ruling something out. [ but ah, yes. ] I probably should, if only because I'm curious. Have you found yours?

[ they are already digging, goodbye. ]

[obdure]

[ dw said die ]

I—[ Watches them go dig. ] Have not.

[ He can just search with his eyes first, not wanting to crowd. ]

[holyspirits]

[ they scoot over.... ]

Two sets of eyes are better. I can look for you, but it might be faster with both of us. [ come join them. they don't mind being crowded. ]

[obdure]

I am also looking.

[ Just not physically going at it yet, but he doesn't see anything in the areas around Zuriel, so he will join the hunt.

Eventually, he finds his. Where is theirs..... ]

[holyspirits]

Just checking. [ join the hunt! jacopo finds his, and zuriel's is buried a little further under the tree near the base... ]

What do you think yours will be? [ give them a second to crawl under said-tree to grab theirs. ]

[obdure]

They're always trinkets, so my expectation is really only something small.

[ If Zuriel needs help with that, he will help them get their box. ]

What I received yesterday was... A photo.

[holyspirits]

[ he is leggier so he may retrieve yes. ]

Small doesn't mean it isn't good. [ but... curious. ] What was it a photo of?

[obdure]

It doesn't. Coins are small and money is always good.

[ So! He gives them their box. Here you go. ]

... People I used to know.

[holyspirits]

Money is always good. [ hard agree. they take box! but they are not opening it yet. ]

... are they people you liked, once?

[obdure]

We drifted apart.

[ time to blind box open... He gets a polaroid. It's of him about fourteen and a blond girl about twelve. Pretend they are medieval children instead of 1800s, they are still the same characters.

Looking at it, he's quiet for a moment as cracks form on his face, like breaking pottery. ]

It happens when you become busy.

[holyspirits]

[ oh this is a baby. this is not what they think in so many words, but they do look at this picture, and they notice the cracks. it makes them pause enough to find the right words. ]

But you were close before. Who became busy first?

[obdure]

Lordship takes up too much time for friends, unfortunately.

[ He will tuck the polaroid back into the box, closing the lid and all. ]

Will you be opening yours?

[holyspirits]

Even Lords need companionship, but I suppose with the way things were people kept you way too busy with their demands.

[ which sucks. but they can take a hint even though they are going to come back to asking who that is. instead, they will open their box! and pull out... a single tarot card? it is a page of cups. ]

Ah.

[obdure]

... It does.

[ Squints at their card. ]

The occult?

[holyspirits]

[ a sigh. ]

It's not—well, for you it may be considered the occult. [ old. ] ...are you familiar with psychics at all? Or the art of seeing someone's future?

[obdure]

... The year is 10XX if that means anything. That sounds like what people would call witchcraft or a vision from God if you ask me.

[holyspirits]

[ fascinated by how this man would have said that out loud, but i'm not questioning it and neither are they. ]

I'm sure there are still people where I'm from that would call it that. This is a tarot card. Tarot cards are used to read a person's future. My mother specializes in card readings. [ ... ] And she would always tell me this particular card was the one she thought represented me best.

[obdure]

[ listen I would need to go back to the first game to check the year. I just know it's somewhere between 1000-1120 AD or something.

Anyway, he doesn't judge despite it being different from what he knows. It isn't freak shit, so. ]

How sentimental... What does it mean?

[holyspirits]

[ you're valid. ]

It has a lot of meanings. Usually it's about new beginnings, messages, and possibilities. She used to say it was mine because of all of the potential the cupbearer held, and how that potential was just like mine.

[ which seems sweet, but it was also a lot to consider. ]

[obdure]

That seems like a lot of expectation, but promising. Depends on who you ask.

[ Fascinating, but still superstitious to him so he's like. That's neat, I guess. Maybe it's something, maybe it's nothing. ]

[holyspirits]

Oh, I've been told my fate practically since I was born. I think expectation's always been around. It was... nice to know what to expect, but equally frustrating for so long.

But when you're from a family of psychics it's expected.