[ota] 12/12/12
One day a year, from a Millennium to the 12th year After, is completely Special.
This year... Chives isn't certain. Because this year he started off the day with a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach from tossing and turning all night, because the conversation he'd had with Zoë the past weekedn wouldn't Leave Him Alone. So, as a person with Worries does--or so he hears--he went to his Mother.
And she told him, in so many words, that he has a little sister. That the brother he was still, really, mourning the loss of, had been half a set of twins. That the child had been abandoned but, well... now stood beside him from time to time at the polishing.
So on the 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year since the turn of the years, Chives isn't sharp-eyed and chipper as he had been last November or the October before it. He's looking for Piper. He's even leaving the Castle if he has to.
And he's trying to make sense of things, if anyone cares to ask why he's delegated his morning work and is looking for a Joker.
This year... Chives isn't certain. Because this year he started off the day with a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach from tossing and turning all night, because the conversation he'd had with Zoë the past weekedn wouldn't Leave Him Alone. So, as a person with Worries does--or so he hears--he went to his Mother.
And she told him, in so many words, that he has a little sister. That the brother he was still, really, mourning the loss of, had been half a set of twins. That the child had been abandoned but, well... now stood beside him from time to time at the polishing.
So on the 12th day of the 12th month of the 12th year since the turn of the years, Chives isn't sharp-eyed and chipper as he had been last November or the October before it. He's looking for Piper. He's even leaving the Castle if he has to.
And he's trying to make sense of things, if anyone cares to ask why he's delegated his morning work and is looking for a Joker.