Anything you can do, I can do better—

[blackmagus]

Who: Lord Buttercup and the Hag with the Cat! (cough, Dilandau and Fortescue)
What: Ruby's gone, and they have the house to themselves. That's not really a good thing.
Where: House 15
When: Day 89

On top of everything else that's been going on, lately, Ruby being missing is just another unwanted event. Fortescue had held her breath, a little, waiting for her to be returned. Sometimes people only go missing for a few days, at least on their side. But she isn't back yet, and that doesn't bode well. For a variety of reasons, one of them being the state that House 15 now finds itself in.

Lack of sleep is something that Fortescue can deal with. It's not something she's unused to. But having Dilandau around, well, she finds that she can't resist needling him. It helps her deal with the tension of having her head invaded. Even if it's no one in the Cape's fault, particularly, it makes her paranoid — it reminds her of the Elben Mahr and the Inveterates, and how they'd tried to break into her mind before.

There are other ways she'd prefer to deal with the tension, of course, but Dilandau is the last on her list for that sort of thing.

Fortescue's sitting on the couch in the living room, trying to ruminate about the food situation, when she hears an odd bumping noise coming from another part of the house. It sounds heavy, and a little ominous combined with the previous silence before. Sighing, already dreading whatever it is, she gets up to check.

If a dire wolf is eating Dilandau and she isn't there to see it, she'll have to be cross, she tells herself.

Comments

[burnburnburn]

It's when the food Ruby cooked finally runs out that Dilandau decides he's given her long enough to reappear. He's been patient (for him), but if he leaves acting too long then some other prisoner is bound to be put into her room.

Like hell he's going to let some stranger come in and claim all of her belongings for themselves. That mirror is his, as it ought to have been from the day he arrived.

He managed to get into the room with minimal damage to the door, but moving the mirror proves to be far harder. He can't lift the object, so he's reduced to bumping it across the floor and stopping to recover with every other step.

He's almost made it out of Ruby's door when he hears Fortescue coming up the stairs. He glares in that direction, ready to hear some fussing about honouring the dead.