[018/105] ROCFALL; Caius Time: An hour or so while beset by relatives. Progress: - Final:I figure at this point that if I have 105 sketches by April 10 I'm in the clear.
Caius was very chatty where the rest of my characters were resigned to getting nothing done this weekend; he's very new. Told me lots of interesting things about himself and his role in Rocfall. Disappointing, complicated things that I will later hate him for, mind, but interesting things.
The woman in the photo with him used to be his lover. Delan's a white, you see, and he's a little cracked from the constant abuse. Lady Helena committed suicide when he got too masochistic for her tastes, and the heartbroken Caius learned the hard way why you don't try to use the magic of the whites to bring people back from the dead.
Now Lady Helena lives inside a mobius strip, having the same conversations with Caius over and over again. He's had his lines tattooed onto his body, except for that straight white skin all down his left side, to his heart: that's his full declaration of love to her, outlined in ink by all the words he's ever said.
Of course, he's long memorised his lines, but she gets confused and panicky if he doesn't get them right.