[Open] She wants to be like the water

[sissy_queen]

Guinevere has had plenty of time to recover from her emotions. She's remembered things.

She's remembered her children, the ones she has in another reality, Lleu and Goewin. She's remembered being saved from herself by Sir Kay and another nephew who claimed to have custody of her. She's had dreams.

In her dream, there is a dinner with all the

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[daddyissuesjnr]

Melou's walking through the room, and he pauses when he notices there's somebody else in it. He's about to keep moving, but his hesitation might be long enough for Gwen to notice him, or speak to him, perhaps.

He hasn't, for the moment, realised who she is.

And I wanted to ask if it's still okay for me to send Agravain, because as discussed, it really wouldn't end very well >.>

[sissy_queen]

Guinevere blinks when she sees him - she's seen Melou in the Mansion before, and had a conversation, at the time, about his marriage woes.

"-- Lord Melou?"

Her tone is polite, timid, tentative.

If you want, though as I said, that's okay only if you're willing to have Agravain get caught red-handed by Seb, Mal or someone else, with possible fall-out, I imagine. (If typists aren't available to interrupt, I'll punt Tristan, but it would be a last resort, you know my love of 3-way threads.)

Also, just a reminder that this Gwen is 18, so not very far in age from Melou.

[daddyissuesjnr]

Melou stops suddenly, a little startled that she knows his name. He doesn't remember ever speaking to her.

"Do I know you?"

He still hasn't realised who she is. He has been told that Guinevere is at the Mansion, but he's expecting her to be much older.

[sissy_queen]

"I--- forgive me, it must have been a mistake," she says, a bit thickly.

[daddyissuesjnr]

"It was not a mistake. You spoke my name." His voice isn't harsh, exactly, but there's something overbearing in his tone.

[sissy_queen]

"Aye," she concedes. "Though mayhap the Melou I knew once was another," she says quietly. "Or are you now wed to your lady, despite your father's reservations?"

At the time, she had encouraged the other Melou to follow his heart and wed Miranda, if he loved her. (And though it wasn't clear in her mind then, it was partially to spite Mordred - but also because following one's heart isn't something she could speak against.)

[daddyissuesjnr]

"Am I now what?"

What. Just what.

[sissy_queen]

"--- I suppose not. Forgive me, then, my lord. I must have met another by your name."

[daddyissuesjnr]

"And you mistook me for him." He sounds incredulous. "Do he and I look alike?"

[sissy_queen]

"Aye," she replies, "though your demeanor is different, so very much so."

The other Melou was actually... polite.

[daddyissuesjnr]

This Melou can be (sort of) polite, when he tries. He just doesn't ever try.

"We share a name. And we look alike." He still sounds incredulous.

He's not sure what to think of this, but he's approaching the conclusion that Gwen might be mad.

[sissy_queen]

"Aye," she replies, again. "This place is odd and full of mysteries."

It's a good thing that Gwen has long stopped hoping for reconciliation with her Orkney nephews, then.

Though the typist is a sucker for that sort of plot, alas.

[daddyissuesjnr]

"This place is not that odd, surely."

He doesn't believe you, Gwen.

[sissy_queen]

"... I assure you it could be, my lord," she replies politely. "But far be from me the intention to insist."

There's timidity in this very young woman - it's probably visible.

[daddyissuesjnr]

Melou becomes even more overbearing in response to timid people.

"But that doesn't make any sense."

[sissy_queen]

"... does this place make sense at all, my lord?"