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Post by Faith on May 1, 2007 18:54:17 GMT -5
*Faye rampaged through her inn, crying furiously and screaming by turns as she made herself solid enough to completely trash the place. She ripped doors off cabinets and shredded the canopies of the beds with her bare hands, desperate for some kind of release from the white-hot torment that flooded her soul in every moment. Eventually, she collapsed in the attic, sobbing silently, torn apart from grief.*
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Post by Richard on May 1, 2007 19:05:00 GMT -5
"Miss Lavoie?"
Richard edged up the stairs, following the sound of Faye's crying, unti he was in the attic.
"Miss Lavoie?"
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Post by Faith on May 1, 2007 19:09:27 GMT -5
*Faye looked up in puffy-eyed misery as Richard appeared in the doorway.*
"W-w-what d-do you w-w-want?" *she stuttered through her hiccups as tears continued to stream down her face.*
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Post by Richard on May 1, 2007 19:13:37 GMT -5
"I saw you fleeing the Opera. What's the matter?"
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Post by Faith on May 1, 2007 19:16:34 GMT -5
"T-t-they t-took m-me aw-w-waaaay!" *she barely managed to get the words out before she started crying again.*
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Post by Richard on May 1, 2007 19:18:23 GMT -5
"What!?" Richard sounded genuinely shocked. "Who did?"
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Post by Faith on May 1, 2007 19:20:46 GMT -5
*Faye shook her head, nearly hysterical.*
"I don't know...I don't know...they just said I'd broken some law by loving Aimery and now I'm forbidden to ever see him again!"
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Post by Richard on May 1, 2007 19:25:15 GMT -5
Richard looked furious, then pitying, then deeply remorseful, then furious again.
"They have overstepped their boundaries," he said in a voice she'd never have expected from him.
He crossed the room to her.
"Oh, sweeting... I'm so sorry..."
He set down the cane he'd started using at her behest and sat while putting his arms around her.
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Post by Faith on May 1, 2007 19:27:05 GMT -5
*Faye leaned gratefully on his shoulder, sobbing all the harder.*
"I can't enter the land of the living, ever, now...but I have no one in death!"
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Post by Richard on May 1, 2007 19:30:36 GMT -5
Richard made a slight shushing noise and rocked her back and forth as one might a child.
"This isn't the end," he whispered gently. "This isn't the end."
Without thinking, he kissed to top of her head.
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Post by Faith on May 1, 2007 19:33:24 GMT -5
*Faye shook with sobs as she curled up in Richard's arms, taking solace in the sole soul who understood some portion of what she was going through.*
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Post by Richard on May 1, 2007 19:38:51 GMT -5
Richard gathered her into his arms as well as he could, cradling her against his chest and continually making "ssh" noises.
"Don't worry," he whispered. "They'll pay..."
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Post by Faith on May 1, 2007 19:42:50 GMT -5
"But how?" *she choked out, shaking her head.* "I had no choice--they just...I wanted to stay with him. I just wanted to be happy...and he was happy, too."
*She stiffened at the thought of what anguish Aimery must be going through.*
"Oh...poor Aimery...and I can't even tell him..."
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Post by Richard on May 1, 2007 19:45:28 GMT -5
"Do you want me to find him?" Richard offered. "I'll try to tell him. They wouldn't dare do that to me..."
His back was hurting him. He slowly lay back until they were both horizontal.
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Post by Faith on May 1, 2007 19:49:46 GMT -5
*Faye looked up at Richard's face.*
"You could...you would...do that for me?"
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