OPEN | prompt one | RAIN

[wrens]

prompt one | R A I N I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane.

 

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[grafted]

[ Margot laughs, though it's little more than a puff of smoke pluming from her lips. A party, of course. No wonder he seemed so eager to leave, wishing to hurry off to whatever social respite the gathering would offer him. Abstractly, Margot understands the necessity of such things, but to her they served merely as a distraction from where her attention naturally drifted and wanted to be: work. ]

Some systems function more efficiently than others. I'd say something about how we've all gotten it down to a science by now, but I've never been one for puns. [ Margot pauses just long enough to pick a bit of ash from the tip of her tongue, shivering in the process. ] I wouldn't want to keep you from your party.