Even a Locked Chest Must be Unlocked - a story continuation for "Finish It" Bingo.

[aldersprig]

After A Locked Chest is Locked for a Reason, a story of the Aunt Family. To the Finish It! Bingo.If it weren’t for the angry cat sitting on top of the chest - currently in the form of a juvenile marmalade tom - the chest would not have stood out in the Aunt’s attic. This corner of the attic, furthest from windows, chimneys, and the two entrances,

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[rix_scaedu]

oh deary me. *giggle*

[aldersprig]

:-D

[jeriendhal]

Oh, my. [/Takei]

[aldersprig]

*grins*

Dunno if you read this setting - for context, the Aunts (the holders of the power in a given generation) must be unmarried & childless. This is often interpreted as "virginal..."

[jeriendhal]

Emphasis on "interpreted", I assume. ;p

[aldersprig]

Yes indeed!

Now, some /Aunts/ have interpreted it that way as well, but more often it's familiar pressure leaning that way.

Oh, and Beryl is the heir apparent to the Aunthood - i.e., most of the family thinks she'll get it when Eva passes, never mind that Eva's only like 15 years older than Beryl.

[kelkyag]

I would not have guessed Radar for a prude. But perhaps Asta or Elenora's reaction to Sarah's diaries was very negative? Elenora would have been getting that news very late in her life and may have been rather cross about it. (I'll guess Ruan didn't write that sort of thing down in such detail.)

... actually, I'm a little surprised Radar wasn't around when Sarah was *writing* her diaries. His origin remains rather fuzzy.

Do Stone and the other teens Eva is training get to read the diaries, too, or is Beryl being more tightly targetted?

The amount of time each Aunt puts in to reviewing all the records grows with each generation, modulo losses. That's got to get unwieldy.

Nit: "Ne nearly took some flesh off." Ne -> He.

[aldersprig]

Sarah's quite a while ago! (Either pre-Radar or he avoided those parts or he's lying)

Stone and Bellamy (sp?) are reading the diaries, too.

One of the reasons Eva's cataloging & scanning everything is to make it easier on the next generation. :-)

[kelkyag]

He didn't say he *wasn't* there when Sarah was around. :) But yes, he clearly also dodges some Aunts.

Bellamy? Maybe also Anessa and Matthias and an unnamed fifth, who could be Bellamy? Storm, Chalcedony, ...? Lily and the other story-listeners from Rosaria's threads are probably a bit young, but when things are relative to each other is not always clear ... family tree...> Lily's a generation up from the "teens", so story time skew goes here?

[aldersprig]

Generations don't mean age-differences, necessarily. My aunt is 8 years older than I am and my grandpa and great-grandpa were born in the same year :-D
(also, my dad has a 1st cousin who is 8 years YOUNGER than I am).

Hrrm, the 5 are probably Bellamy, Anessa, Matthias, and then Beryl and Stone, sometimes Chalce.

[sauergeek]

I hadn't expected Radar to be a prude. Then again, Beryl is at an age where -- in general -- it's uncertain whether a person can handle such things maturely. Eva is clearly of the opinion that Beryl can in fact handle them maturely, or at least maturely enough. Radar's prudery seems to extend to nobody at all reading those diaries, so I think Eva is entirely reasonable in discounting his opinion.

I kind of wonder what Beryl's parents might think on the subject, though. But I also don't know how difficult it is to get Eva to blush.

[aldersprig]

Radar is a little blind where it comes to Beryl, yeah.

[thnidu]

• Evangeline (2x)
→ Evangaline
> according to the tag and other stories

• depending on exactly how ruffled Rader felt
→ Radar

• how the trap-charms might be lain
→ laid
> I lie down, earlier I lay down, I have lain down. Seven, eight, lay them straight, I laid them straight, I have laid them straight.