(Ok, done with finals for now! This delay was hideous but I'm about.)
It wasn’t foolish, or possibly not as foolish as Genna thought it was. Her sister’s suggestion got Gwyn’s mind to thinking how they might find themselves out of this one. Because as angry as she might be with her sister, things were getting exceedingly bad. And in the face of bad things, adventurers didn’t get scared. So instead of shaking or crying like she might have, Gwyn fought through to think of a clever enough plan to save her and…Genna as well. And she thought Genna had a good start. It was simply in the way you spoke to adults. And Gwyn had studied Jorry enough to know how to speak to him.
Jorry continued to drag the girls along, prepared for some sort of punishment before he had to tell the group the play was off. Though he hated to think of his girl gone months ago it was times like these that made him miss her something fiercely. Of course, these girls hadn’t been raised the same. But it was no matter to Jorry. They’d taught them how things worked, hadn’t they?
“It wouldn’t make sense not to have the play,” Gwyn finally stated, rather stubbornly at that. She could imitate their current adopted family, but that didn’t mean she chose to do so on most occasions. “You’re always talking about showing everyone. Right? And how we’re all better but people’ll be fooled into…” there was an a word that she couldn’t remember the name of so Gwyn had to move on, “Liking anyone with memorized lines. So it’s like Jenny says, we could go without masks. You’ll surprise everyone.” She hoped she was speaking enough to Jorry’s intense drive to have the troupe be its best…otherwise it might be poorly received.
But Gwyn also knew how adults were about these things, and you couldn’t get off without any sort of punishment. Especially not with a man like Jorry…who had stopped his quick walking to step more slowly, as if in thought. “We shouldn’t have broken the mask, we know,” she began then, and her voice kept up its firmness, “But punishing everyone is only you being stubborn when we can be even better without them. And if you’re worried about the costumes I’ll wear what I wore last and so will Jenny. The audience isn’t out to see the dresses anyway.” And not on such minor characters for this play though she didn’t say as such because Gwyn felt herself a very important part of the play, thank you very much.
She hoped it worked, that something spoke to Jorry. Had she been home with her mother she would have spoken in a much different tone but Jorry seemed to be the type that was direct…and rather simple about these things. It was black or it was white.