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houseofcards_rp2013-02-26 08:01 pm
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[ota] unfortunate circumstances
As people seemed to get more and more short-tempered, Diane had figured it prudent to remain as much in the background as possible. She was still a virtual stranger, after all, if you thought of this place in the terms of a small town. Places like that tended to shutter themselves in bad times and outsiders were pushed out.
Nowhere, she thought, was this more well-illustrated than in the Castles.
Unfortunate, then, that it had to become an even more personal lesson when one of the near-constant tremors causes the ground to shudder a bit more strongly than usual, sending her stumbling into a Six of Spades. The apology is on her lips right at the same time he scowls and backhands her into a wall and, she thinks, reaches for a knife to make his point clear that servants should stay out of the way.
Something like that, anyway, but she doesn't hear his hissed words as she pushes herself off the wall, using the momentum to slam her elbow into his chest before he gets the knife out. "Fuck you too," she mutters as he stares at her in shock, trying to catch his breath. Before any more retaliation can escalate, she walks away, the linens she'd been carrying forgotten. A trip to the infirmary seemed in order if the ringing in her ears from her head banging against the wall was any indication.
And to stop her nose from bleeding.
Nowhere, she thought, was this more well-illustrated than in the Castles.
Unfortunate, then, that it had to become an even more personal lesson when one of the near-constant tremors causes the ground to shudder a bit more strongly than usual, sending her stumbling into a Six of Spades. The apology is on her lips right at the same time he scowls and backhands her into a wall and, she thinks, reaches for a knife to make his point clear that servants should stay out of the way.
Something like that, anyway, but she doesn't hear his hissed words as she pushes herself off the wall, using the momentum to slam her elbow into his chest before he gets the knife out. "Fuck you too," she mutters as he stares at her in shock, trying to catch his breath. Before any more retaliation can escalate, she walks away, the linens she'd been carrying forgotten. A trip to the infirmary seemed in order if the ringing in her ears from her head banging against the wall was any indication.
And to stop her nose from bleeding.