luministi | ◌ 019 ◌ さよなら (Farewell)

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◌ 019 ◌ さよなら (Farewell)

[Fuu sits contemplatively in front of the windows, staring out into the stars. Above the pages of her Luministi journal she holds a pen loosely in her hand, her mind wandering from her writing.]

[Everything that had happened was so unbelievable. The end had been so sudden and shocking. And now... now she gets to go home. The thing that she wanted the most also fills her with the most dread - how can she possibly explain her absence for over three months?]

[But before she gets to worry too much over that, she should make sure that she says proper farewells to everyone she met here. Because they have shared a very unique experience together. Something they will be unable to share with anyone else.]

[ooc: Much the same as Xion's post, Fuu will be in search of everyone in order to say goodbye! Or, of course, you might find her first XD]

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[opens her mouth to respond--but then pauses. it's very difficult to explain what happened when Robert returned to the house without explaining what had happened before--what she had done to try to bring the Council there. what Robert had done in response. her dispersal into the air because of him, and then those years later, Robert returning, so desperate that he went against the law--and the Council's decision that he had brought about--to bring her back

I offered his daughter anything that she wished for. She was only 11 then. And would you know, the one thing that she wanted was the end of one of my stories? So I granted her that.

And then I offered Robert a choice.

[Fuu shakes her head wonderingly. The fatally ill girl had only wanted the end of one of Ms Sara's stories? That made this conversation all the more a privilege.]

A choice? [This strikes her as rather odd - like the genie in the bottle suddenly breaking it's role as one who only did as ordered. Although, of course, Ms Sara is far more sophisticated than a genie.]

What kind of choice? You had some sort of plan?

Yes... [Sara's expression is unreadable. it's up to Fuu to decide whether she believes the motives Sara is about to claim are true]

Robert had been curious about the house for a long time. He wanted to stay there, to find out more about what it--what I--could do. He hoped that I could save his world. But he wouldn't have stayed on his own. So, I told him that I would heal his daughter--if, in exchange, he stayed in the house for the rest of his life.

[At first Fuu is surprised by this. It sounded a bit sinister, Ms Sara cohersting Robert to stay in the house in exchange for his daughter's life. But then she gives it some more serious thought. Not believing Ms Sara to be a sinister person, she asks her question calmly and sincerely.]

Ms Sara... why would you offer him such a choice? Was it a way for you to grant Robert's desire to stay and observe the house, or was there some other reason you would go to such lengths to get him to remain there forever?

[meets Fuu's gaze, remembering Robert's words--his accusations, that she simply didn't want to be alone. their discussion of the price of wishes. but she doesn't want to say any of that]

Robert did want to stay, but his daughter--she was only eleven. She'd already lost her mother. Do you think she would have wanted to spend her life in the house, like her father did?

[shakes her head slightly] No, probably not. So Robert did stay? But I don't understand. Why would either of them have to spend their lives in the house? ... Unless--

[She cuts off, then continues softly. Her face fills with compassion as she puts the ideas together.]
The world was dying. Perhaps no one could come to the house anymore. And you said you were there a very long time.
Oh, Ms Sara. You must have been desperately lonely.

[frowns, her expression tightening] Robert said I did it to fulfill my own wish, too. But he wanted to stay. He just didn't realise what he wished for. In all those years, he never even asked to leave--never once even tried.

And Robert stayed in the house for a very long time--long after his daughter decided to leave it.

[Fuu nods slowly. 'He just didn't realise what he wished for.' Wishes could be so tragic... And a wish-granting house even more so.]

Yes, I remember you saying that Robert is a dear friend. And indeed he must have been, to accept what you offered him.

He was there for so long, what led to him wishing to replace you as the conscience of the house?

He had always wanted to know more about the house, and he wanted to save his world. But...I think it was when he realised that he wasn't aging that he began to think of that wish.

He wasn't aging? Just from staying in the house?

He didn't wish for that. Or perhaps he just hadn't realised what to wish for.

[Fuu shakes her head. This seems even more peculiar than Sara's part in the story with the house.]

[Uncertainly] How did it come to be that he wasn't aging then, if he didn't wish it?

[smiles] He didn't wish to age. All that time in the house, and never once in his mind did I see any desire to grow older--or to die. There was too much left that Robert wanted to know--and do to. And so he stayed as he was until, finally, he decided what he really wished for.

[Didn't wish to age. That was a head-scratcher all on it's own. How would someone even think to wish for something that should just happen naturally?]

[And now, the question is just begging to be asked. Perhaps she could even say it has been begged to be asked for a while now.]

What did he really wish for?

[is quiet for a moment, a smile on her face but sadness in her eyes--at what Robert gave up while giving her such a gift]

He wished to trade places--that he would become the house. And that I would become human.

Amazing... Not just observe the house, but become the house. And release you at the same time.

But then what did you do? You have been the house for so long, it must have been peculiar to be human again.

[smiles] It still is, in some ways.

As for what I did... [her smile fades, her expression turning pensive] I wanted to leave, but it wasn't that easy. It never is.

Just before I arrived here, Robert gave me a choice. I wasn't ready to make it then, but...I think after everything in this town, I just might be now. [smiles again]

Really? That's a good thing then.
If I may, what is the choice that you will have to make? Does it have to do with why it was hard for you to leave the house?

In a way. [pauses, considering whether she wants to share something quite so personal as that]

If I left the house--got in a boat, went out into the world--it would be Robert's dying world. That isn't what I wish for. So he... [hesitates, still overwhelmed by what Robert offered her] He...brought a man to the house. A man who could truly take me away from it. A man who might be able to grant my wish.

A man who could take you off-world? [Her curiosity is piqued yet again - she'd said that she didn't meet the Doctor and Steven again, so there is only one question to ask!]

Who was it?

[there's a faraway look in her eyes when she responds] I didn't see him, so I'm not sure which him it was. Robert did say that he had changed a great deal since I'd known him, but with him, that's really no surprise.

[focuses her gaze on Fuu] Just before I came here, Robert made the Doctor's ship--his TARDIS--appear in front of me in the house.

Eh? Really?! [And just what kind of ship is it, to appear inside a house?]

So, just before? And you didn't get to meet the Doctor before being brought here. Oh, Ms Sara. I hope that you get to return to the moment you left, so that you can meet the Doctor there.

[smiles, amused at Fuu's amazement] I hadn't chosen to meet him yet. Robert would have sent him away, if I'd wished for him to. But I hadn't decided.

I'm sure, whatever I might return to, Robert will ask me to make that choice.

Ah. [Smiles in return.] So this was the choice that being in the town helped you to make.

You suddenly got to see the Doctor here, but you have a choice there. What will you choose to do?

For the moment...I think I'll choose to wait until I've returned before I make my wish.

But if we ever do meet again, I'll be sure to tell you all about it.

◌ 019 ◌ さよなら (Farewell)

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