Cursed Mansion, Emblem of Fire
Witch's Heart AU
Easily, the blue-haired man begins to visibly deflate at how the others treat him. The courage necessary to suggest it feels as if it were merely a waste of time. Even though Marisa and Berkut agree with him to some extent, they are content to go without.
He gets the impression he's not being understood, but it's his fault if he can't make it clear, isn't it?
That is until Hortensia speaks.
Pelleas's eyes widen, taking the words he had in mind and putting them out. She does it so easily, right when he had been about ready to resign himself to acquiescing, but then again, there's something.
Despite agreeing with him and seeing his point, she would still choose a different person besides him to accompany. It feels like a slap in the face, a reminder again of what he has already known for ages.
He's poor company. That must be why things went the way they did. The rejections was because they didn't trust him in particular, and Hortensia was the only one who was willing to go out of her way to prove it for certain, wasn't she?
“ ...That's right, ” he says, not sure if he's saying it more in response to her or as a way to respond to his own inner thoughts— the suspicion he feels in four pairs of eyes crawling in. He's a skittish looking thing, looking away back towards the door that Karel left through. “ If one of us were to die while split in pairs, I just thought... we'd... know then... ”
It's only fair, if such distrust was to be made so plain, that he'd say it plainly too.
He's interrupted however, hearing a cry out from farther out. Pelleas startles, reminded of the time and how easily it slips through the hands like grains of sand in an hourglass, and he speaks more loudly now.
“ That hardly sounds good. I'll go...! ”
And he rushes out of the room, chasing after where he had Karel's pained noise, a sound to encourage one's feet to be swift when the memory of a snippet of audio was easy to so quickly lose.
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The scream. Someone must’ve been attacked. Pelleas just ran into danger. Marisa stands up, she heads to leave the room in a bit of a hurry. She thought to herself, is it worth it to go see what was happening? She chewed on the side of her cheek. She had to remain cautious, but vigilant, anything could happen in this accursed house. She looked at Hortensia and Berkut while leaving, speaking in a tense voice, “I’m going to follow Pelleas. Don’t kill each other.”
She takes off running after saying that, hoping to catch up to him. The paranoia of the scenario is already settling into Marisa’s mind. She takes her time to look behind every possible second she can. She wasn’t planning to sleep either. She can never trust that her room can be safe, key or not. She’d figure out where that scream came from, and start investigating until she found any evidence towards what she was looking for. This wasn’t something someone could take at their own leisure, not when anyone else could "find" it at any time, and if a fight broke out it might've been found already.
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