MarinaNova Asylum

Pay attention, numbskulls. Drop what you’re doing. Especially you. Princess. [Caliborn pauses for effect. Even if he sounds like Calliope, his sentences are his trademark staccato and melodrama, with a side of harshness.]

I have won Euphemia’s game. With many questions to spare. Because. I found the object. [This broadcast is suddenly punctuated by the shriek of a harmonica being violently blown into, followed by an equally annoying shriek of laughter.]

She thought she could trick me. On account of my being a superior being who doesn't give a shit about music. Seriously. Who even cares about this blowing device. Not me. [He blows into it again, this time sliding it so that there is some semblance of actual music. Kind of.] What is that? Just noise. But. It is still the perfect accompaniment. To her tears of defeat.

Front and center, wench. Present yourself and admit it. To the entire prison.

That I win. And you. LOSE.

[There’s another harsh harmonica blow.]

Video

Those who look through the communicator on her dresser find Yvaine heading to sit on her bed and chant. It's the lighting spell Zelgadis was teaching yesterday. She keeps count of her attempts to find a rhythm in the work. It steadies her thoughts. On her fifth attempt, a tiny globe hovers for a second.

Yvaine smiles and the spark disappears as she glows faintly. She tries again, but this time only her light is present. She frowns, unsure if that is drowning out the globe; Yvaine suppresses it consciously. When the result is the same two attempts later, she pauses - and sees the communicator's camera pointed at her.

"Fuck," she says very quietly, and turns it off.


Action 1 - Sector 4, Her apartment at Clocktower Estates

Yvaine alternates between sitting and pacing, trying to think of what to do about anyone who did see. If your character and she have been friendly, she'll probably allow them to discuss this in the apartment. Or anything, if they just want to visit her. They don't have to have seen the video.


Action 2 - Sector 4, Quatro Park

Regardless of whether they saw the video, anyone can approach her as she calms her mind at: the park, heading to the park, or heading from the park. It's hopeless to worry too much, and that will get in the way of proper thinking too.