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[ Open ] All The Lonely People
Who: Sally Boyle
What: Dealing with the departure of her fiancé, Arthur Morgan
When: Time is soup
Where: Morgan Ranch and other places
Warning(s): Grief, depression, alcohol use, psychoactive drugs
-Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been-
It's an insultingly lovely summer morning when Sally wakes to find the letter Arthur left her.
She doesn't think anything of it when she wakes early to an empty bed, assuming that Arthur's up taking care of the animals, and takes a peaceful moment to relax amid tangled sheets and listen to the birds sing outside her window. With a deep breath, she pulls herself up and resolves to go and see what he's up to before she starts in on laundry and heads off to work. And that's when she sees it. And there's the sinking feeling in her stomach, like a drop from a great height. She's been left before. She's left others. She knows what this is.
It's both better and worse that it has nothing to do with her. Arthur speaks hurriedly and with little detail about returning to his home world after being called back by the White-Haired Lady, apologizing to her over and over and over until her eyes are too full of tears to read it. For hours, Sally can do nothing but clutch the paper, and later Gwen, to her chest and sob. The day vanishes in a blur. And just like that, the life she'd built herself over the past year goes up in flames.
It takes a few days, but ultimately Sally's mind decides that Arthur was just a lovely dream that she's waking up from, a brief and wonderful vacation from being on her own. There's nothing stopping her from keeping the ranch--- technically the letter contained his parting wish to leave the property to Sally. But she can't be there right now, and she certainly can't keep up the ranch on her own. In the end, she decides to keep the house but move out for a while, and dissolve the ranch itself. She'll figure out what to do with the land later, she supposes, and rehomes Arthur's animals. They go to her neighbors--- John, Mairi, Eddie and Angel, César, Muriel, and the big family down the road. She keeps Hollyhock, though, unable to bear the thought of giving up Arthur's beloved horse, and the Pokémon get to stay. And then she moves back to her flat above Blackberry Apothecary while she gets herself together. Claude can keep the master bedroom--- Sally shares the guest room with Gwen. It's tight, but at least they're not alone, and it makes dragging herself to work a little less complicated.
And then it's back to normal. Wedding cancellations are sent, the apothecary opens, and life goes on.
-Lives in a dream, waits by the window-
When Sally first arrived to the island, she did so without Gwen, and she sat on the beach and waited. Then, once she'd waited long enough, the ferryman arrived with Gwen in hand. It'd be ridiculous to think that this would work the same way--- that Arthur would come back if she just... sat and waited. So she pretends that's not why she keeps going to the beach. Clearly it's to take Gwen to get ice cream and chase crabs and make sand castles and play in the water while it's still warm. And if Sally's gazing at the horizon, well, that's just because it's a lovely day for it.
-Wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door-
There has been a marked uptick in nights where Sally asks for a babysitter so that she can go to the Oak & Iron. It's not necessarily to drink, although she does that as well, but most times it's for the noise. The social environment keeps her from dwelling on the fact that her life has fundamentally changed in a way she doesn't like.
Time has passed. She's more okay than she was. But she still doesn't like the quiet, and she still doesn't want to go home.
Would you like a drink? Wanna play cards? Know any good bar songs? Hang out with Sally! She promises to smile and laugh the whole time, just like normal.
-Who is it for?-
And on one particularly bad night, Sally can be found at the Oak & Iron, turning to the person next to her with a little drawstring bag that she waggles. "Hey, I brought a treat! I used to make these back home. Wanna have a good time?"
What: Dealing with the departure of her fiancé, Arthur Morgan
When: Time is soup
Where: Morgan Ranch and other places
Warning(s): Grief, depression, alcohol use, psychoactive drugs
-Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been-
It's an insultingly lovely summer morning when Sally wakes to find the letter Arthur left her.
She doesn't think anything of it when she wakes early to an empty bed, assuming that Arthur's up taking care of the animals, and takes a peaceful moment to relax amid tangled sheets and listen to the birds sing outside her window. With a deep breath, she pulls herself up and resolves to go and see what he's up to before she starts in on laundry and heads off to work. And that's when she sees it. And there's the sinking feeling in her stomach, like a drop from a great height. She's been left before. She's left others. She knows what this is.
It's both better and worse that it has nothing to do with her. Arthur speaks hurriedly and with little detail about returning to his home world after being called back by the White-Haired Lady, apologizing to her over and over and over until her eyes are too full of tears to read it. For hours, Sally can do nothing but clutch the paper, and later Gwen, to her chest and sob. The day vanishes in a blur. And just like that, the life she'd built herself over the past year goes up in flames.
It takes a few days, but ultimately Sally's mind decides that Arthur was just a lovely dream that she's waking up from, a brief and wonderful vacation from being on her own. There's nothing stopping her from keeping the ranch--- technically the letter contained his parting wish to leave the property to Sally. But she can't be there right now, and she certainly can't keep up the ranch on her own. In the end, she decides to keep the house but move out for a while, and dissolve the ranch itself. She'll figure out what to do with the land later, she supposes, and rehomes Arthur's animals. They go to her neighbors--- John, Mairi, Eddie and Angel, César, Muriel, and the big family down the road. She keeps Hollyhock, though, unable to bear the thought of giving up Arthur's beloved horse, and the Pokémon get to stay. And then she moves back to her flat above Blackberry Apothecary while she gets herself together. Claude can keep the master bedroom--- Sally shares the guest room with Gwen. It's tight, but at least they're not alone, and it makes dragging herself to work a little less complicated.
And then it's back to normal. Wedding cancellations are sent, the apothecary opens, and life goes on.
-Lives in a dream, waits by the window-
When Sally first arrived to the island, she did so without Gwen, and she sat on the beach and waited. Then, once she'd waited long enough, the ferryman arrived with Gwen in hand. It'd be ridiculous to think that this would work the same way--- that Arthur would come back if she just... sat and waited. So she pretends that's not why she keeps going to the beach. Clearly it's to take Gwen to get ice cream and chase crabs and make sand castles and play in the water while it's still warm. And if Sally's gazing at the horizon, well, that's just because it's a lovely day for it.
-Wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door-
There has been a marked uptick in nights where Sally asks for a babysitter so that she can go to the Oak & Iron. It's not necessarily to drink, although she does that as well, but most times it's for the noise. The social environment keeps her from dwelling on the fact that her life has fundamentally changed in a way she doesn't like.
Time has passed. She's more okay than she was. But she still doesn't like the quiet, and she still doesn't want to go home.
Would you like a drink? Wanna play cards? Know any good bar songs? Hang out with Sally! She promises to smile and laugh the whole time, just like normal.
-Who is it for?-
And on one particularly bad night, Sally can be found at the Oak & Iron, turning to the person next to her with a little drawstring bag that she waggles. "Hey, I brought a treat! I used to make these back home. Wanna have a good time?"
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Anzu takes a seat, but he has to think about the answer. So much of the alcohol here is just different enough to what he's used to. Eventually, he hazards, "ah, nu, gin? If such things are found here. Gin and tonic, if tonic water is available."
He pauses, and then adds, "if they do, I wonder if it's for the same reason we do. For the prevention, alleged at least, of malaria."