. (mote) wrote in rooms, @ 2015-04-28 05:46:00 |
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Entry tags: | !penny dreadful(s), *news |
News: Penny Dreadful(s)
[The day after the gathering at the Murray Estate, London has little else to whisper about. For a people dull and bored, the happenings inside that house are enough to carry them through summer.
Though, there is general disappointment that Vanessa Ives climbed on no tables in a display of fits, and tales of her theatrics months earlier resurface like the orchid from its soil; of the man she spent the evening bent close to, there is not much known. Whispers about the daughter of the house involve a pallid man of poor constitution; flame sparks quickly, and those whispers turn tawdry, filth in those crystalline voices that carry the tales.
To that, most of the men present are new faces, which increases the ferocity of the whispers in drawing and sitting room alike. There is one man, however, that draws quite a bit of attention, scarred, deformed, and certainty he is no fit match for gently-reared ladies, however fall they have fallen. Drawings of the man (Caliban, though they know not his name) circulate, roughly sketched things oft-folded and hid between layers of petticoat, and he is the new terrible delicacy in London - or so it would seem.]