venice ♔ the piano keys are black & white but they sound like a million colors in your mind

[romanticidal]

♬ Spider's Web - Katie Melua

WHO || Rafael Giovanni, Isabella Alessandro, Hiro, Kat, Gar, Buffy, Myri [closed]
WHAT || Kat, Gar, Buffy, and Myri spend the night at Rafael's.   Nothing of consequence happens at all.
WHERE || Rafael's villa, an hour outside Venice, Italy
WHEN || July 6-7, late night.
HOW || Actionspam, NO TAG ORDER

After returning from her interrogation date? outing with Rafael, Buffy was ushered back into the girls' shared rooms, where Gar and Kat and Myri have set up shop. Myri and Gar both spent most of that time on the phone: Gar with Wynn and Myri with Finnick, and Rafael dropped by to wish all the girls a good night before retiring and leaving them alone with Buffy.

As the household settles into sleep, maybe now is the time they can get some serious snooping done... 

Comments

3/3

[romanticidal]

[ rafael sees no reason to waste time either, apparently and heads for the phone ] I will arrange for a flight, then.

[slay]

Uh, yeah, about her. She was with her family. [ she lets go of myri, distracted from the congratulations she was about to offer. ] Dumage, I mean. Did anyone else know she has a sister who calls her Antonia?

[witchwoman]

Dumage has family? [Myri says, obviously super shocked.] Here? [Or anywhere. It's hard to imagine her with anyone in the world she might be attached to.]

Perhaps that is why we have not been able to reach her.

1/-

[shootfirst]

It's hard to imagine a walking VD having siblings.

2/2

[rationalizes]

I wonder why she didn't mention it. She must have her reasons.

[slay]

[ oh yay no one is judging her for stalking dumage :3 ]

Yeah, she was in this ... little cafe along the canal. Really cute, great gelato. They were talking about, um ... [ she snaps her fingers, trying to remember. ] Like, some Catholic guy that I guess Dumage was into? A-And her sister trying to ... I don't know, some plan involving a heavyweight politician. Her sister said something about Dumage running scams in England. [ /regurgitates info as gossip. ] Anyway. That was a few hours ago, and she left before we did. I bet she's home.

[rationalizes]

[ no, here comes the judging. gar sounds very judgey. ] I hardly think any of that is our business.

[witchwoman]

We'll need to collect the rest of our things before leaving anyway. We can look for her there and inform her of all that has transpired. [She pauses.]

You don't think Rafael will protest Amaranth coming, do you? [Leaving her familiar at the hotel to make the trip to Rafael had been uncomfortable enough.]

[slay]

No way. He's Shadowkind, too, remember? Even if he's not first gen like us. [ she waves it off, ignoring gar's judgy life. ]

[shootfirst]

Half-elf, I'm guessing. With a dad named Elorn Cilriond, what else is he gonna be?

[witchwoman]

Someone once asked if I was elvish with my own name. There are other options.

[shootfirst]

Yeah. He did. Case in point.

[slay]

Guess we'll have time to talk to him about it on the flight over. That's gotta kill, what, like 8 hours? [ she cringes. ] Yuck.

I guess once Rafael's ready, we can get going. [ she disentangles herself from myri. ] I'm gonna make a quick call.

[witchwoman]

[Myri pulls away to make the untangling easier. It's only in the quiet moments that she realizes what has all transpired tonight. Had she really gone running towards a fight? So much has been changing since she came to this place.]

[rationalizes]

[ THIS IS A WRAP UP COMMENT / lazy ]