♞9th Cup ◊ Audio ; I Knew Only a Moment Ago...

[10shlling6pence]

I daresay I had not been--quite expecting such a curse. [some snipping, a ruffle of fabric] It wasn't quite right--nor wrong--nor truly twixt the two at that...I could--would and have wanted to--nor thought to, or rememory unfaulty and unbroken--..even see their faces. Gone now.

[a clatter--he tries to smile through the words]

..From what I can

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[whattingawhat]

Hey. Tarrant.

Want to come to a beach party today? I'm gonna be there and Eliot and probably Xander. You'll have fun and we can invite Alice if you want.

[She really just wants to get him out of the house. She thinks maybe it would be good for him]

[10shlling6pence]

[being out would probably be best--the madness gives pause to 'beach' and 'fun']

...what?

[and further]..Alice.

[whattingawhat]

Come out to the beach.

We can invite Alice if you want. It's sort of an 'invite everyone' beach party.

[10shlling6pence]

..A party. Yes. Yes, that--that sounds. At least it sounds, in the cacophony and loudness--where I feel deaf and crushed--isn't it lovely there, Buffy?

..Isn't it?

[threadthefire]

Tarrant? It is Tarrant isn't it? Are you alright?

[10shlling6pence]

Yes, I am--or so I think--or thought and in thinking so perhaps I couldn't be who I thought and so think to be.

...No.

[threadthefire]

Do you need assistance?

[10shlling6pence]

...I'm not certain. Never certain. Not anymore.

[neverplays]

You okay there?

[10shlling6pence]

Between ashen claws and bite--a fire that wasn't a single single building--...I think not so. No.

[neverplays]

You sound like you're drunk, but... from the looks of it, you're always like this.

What's wrong?

[10shlling6pence]

--Crowded. Cramped, and it's--it's very loud in here. Thick, suffocating loudness.

[horrible_penny]

All I got out of that was a lot of alliteration and a bad feeling. Can you relax and talk it out?

[10shlling6pence]

Bad--berating brutal bias and beast...

...talk..?

[horrible_penny]

Yeah, talk. Like... where you say things and I try to figure out what you mean and then we figure out what's wrong and things are okay.

[10shlling6pence]

...Everything was wrong. Wrong, where it rang true with rightness, but--but wrong.

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[the_alice]

[the_alice]

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[the_alice]

Hatter. Hatter do you hear me?

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[10shlling6pence]

...Alice..?

I hear. Deafening, smothering--but I hear.