They're covered in needle-sharp thorns, which dig into your palms where you grab their stems. Of course, you've had so much worse than that by now, so perhaps it hardly matters.
So you start ripping at them. Each time you touch them, you feel that otherness, and that sensation refines into a kind of recognition: these are Wild Rose, Key of Something Different.
Caring about "difference" at all, though... that's the sort of thing you can only feel if your difference matters; if it is part of the story of you finding your place in the world.
[She doesn't care about the cuts to her hands, growing more frantic and violent the stronger the feeling grows.
And it turns out she does know how to boil water! Because the plants she rips up are going straight in a bot to be boiled like the little wretched assholes they are.]
And isn't that something precious? Realizing that having a place you belong is something you could want? Something you could have, if only you reached for it?
...But you tear at the roses, and shove them in the boiling water, where they are in fact boiled, though there's definitely way too much plant mass here to fit all in one pot.
Actually, now that you're paying such...uh... such close attention to the wild roses, something else about them might occur to you: while the stream with its lotuses had plants that looked like they'd been growing for years (never mind that that's longer than BAD END itself has existed), with lush leaves and a proliferation of pink-veined flowers on tall, gently swaying stems, but the same can't be said for these roses. For all the wildness of their growth, you can see places in the kitchen where they've scratched at the cabinets, and even knocked over a bag of flour, all of which must have been in some explosion of new growth.
But, satisfied she's scalded at least some of the nasty little things, she leaves them there (for some poor sucker to drink, I guess) and backtracks to the main room.]
Hey, those roses were an invasive species. Or something. They deserved it? Maybe???
You return to the main room, and it's still empty of people—though there are indeed all sorts of signs of how lived-in and perhaps even loved the space is. The scattered tsums could only belong to Sashay, for example, and there's a pile of books on one of the coffee tables.
Just beyond, there's the entrance to what looks like a long hallway of bedrooms.
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So you start ripping at them. Each time you touch them, you feel that otherness, and that sensation refines into a kind of recognition: these are Wild Rose, Key of Something Different.
Caring about "difference" at all, though... that's the sort of thing you can only feel if your difference matters; if it is part of the story of you finding your place in the world.
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And it turns out she does know how to boil water! Because the plants she rips up are going straight in a bot to be boiled like the little wretched assholes they are.]
Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END
...But you tear at the roses, and shove them in the boiling water, where they are in fact boiled, though there's definitely way too much plant mass here to fit all in one pot.
Actually, now that you're paying such...uh... such close attention to the wild roses, something else about them might occur to you: while the stream with its lotuses had plants that looked like they'd been growing for years (never mind that that's longer than BAD END itself has existed), with lush leaves and a proliferation of pink-veined flowers on tall, gently swaying stems, but the same can't be said for these roses. For all the wildness of their growth, you can see places in the kitchen where they've scratched at the cabinets, and even knocked over a bag of flour, all of which must have been in some explosion of new growth.
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But, satisfied she's scalded at least some of the nasty little things, she leaves them there (for some poor sucker to drink, I guess) and backtracks to the main room.]
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You return to the main room, and it's still empty of people—though there are indeed all sorts of signs of how lived-in and perhaps even loved the space is. The scattered tsums could only belong to Sashay, for example, and there's a pile of books on one of the coffee tables.
Just beyond, there's the entrance to what looks like a long hallway of bedrooms.
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That done, yes, the hallway.]
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(It had felt a bit giddy to hold them, actually.)
You continue to the hallway, which has... uh, kind of a lot of bedrooms, in fact.