scene 46: the actress hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear.

[charmedillusion]

It's like writing a poem on water

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[equalmarked]

...Sarah. Are you all right?

[charmedillusion]

Yeah. Just...awake, if that makes sense.

[equalmarked]

Hermione would be better at this sort of thing...

Well, if there's anything...wrong, you're free to talk to me?

[charmedillusion]

Thanks.

Someone left, that's all. I'm still getting used to it. You'd think it wouldn't take me so long, considering.

[a_legacy]

Sarah? Is something wrong?

[charmedillusion]

Well, it's different. Maybe not wrong.

[a_legacy]

Why, what happened?

[charmedillusion]

Something happened that I knew was going to happen, but...somehow there's a painful difference between expecting an event and the event itself.

[sword_and_quill]

...You would make a decent writer.

...You seem-- Did something happen?

[charmedillusion]

Thank you.

...Do you like poetry?

[sword_and_quill]

If it's not terrible. I can appreciate it.

Is it a hobby of yours?

[charmedillusion]

Poetry explains things better sometimes. Like this -

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

That's what it feels like.

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[hisplusone]

[hisplusone]

Sarah...It doesn't make you a coward.

[charmedillusion]

You know...sometimes you can know something but not know it. I guess that's just one of those things that I'll have to keep telling myself.

[hisplusone]

Yeah...I know. I'm so sorry, Sarah. I really am. It's not fair. Things will...I know it's hard right now. get better. Wanna watch some more EastEnders?

[the_wheezy]

Tea, Sarah?

[charmedillusion]

Absolutely.

[the_wheezy]

Honey? Milk? Talk about it?

[charmedillusion]

Yes, yes, and yes...as long as you're sure I won't frighten you away or bore you.