SHARON

[chanteuser]

finding a meme for sharon is much harder than akira, who knew.

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WEEK 0, sunday

[chanteuser]

[ i promised you a pc and here we are.

alex is at the emporium because literally what else is there to do here other than live in the kitchen, get lost in the woods or fall in the river? ignoring the arcade completely.

she's looking through the shop a little slower than usual. she's kinda been through here a few times so... she's looking for any interesting things she might have missed the first few times she's been here. ]

[maidforservice]

[HOORAY BECKS PCS]

[with her own investigations having produced nothing of note, Sharon is attempting to pass the time doing. . . well. maid things??? she hasn't cooked any lavish meals as grand as the one on the first day, but she has absolutely been found in the inn puttering about the kitchen and tidying up the area. and her maid duties might have brought her to the emporium in her attempts to find any other tools or trinkets that might prove useful for the group as a whole]

[trinkets like these]

[SO ANYWAY ALEX CAN FIND SHARON IN ONE OF THE EMPORIUM AISLES, CLACKING THE MOUTH OF A T-REX TOGETHER DELIGHTEDLY]

[chanteuser]

[ ...

y'know what? she's been swooped at by a hawk, had a boy spit instant coffee out of his mouth and try to give it to her and made a priest wear heartglasses this isn't even the weirdest thing that's happened to her in the past 48 hours. ]

Having fun?

[maidforservice]

[wow poor Alex, why is this her life]

I wouldn't quite call it "fun."

[Sharon says with a delightful giggle, and she lowers the device to her side]

But it is a curious trinket, isn't it?

[chanteuser]

[ she leans over to pick one out herself ... this one has a little shark head on the top, and she clacks its toothy jaws a few times, curiously. ]

...

That's one way of putting it. Is it meant to be a toy?

[maidforservice]

[tilts her own trinket over]

[to bap Alex's]

[SHARK AND T-REX FIGHT]

I imagine so. A child could find hours of entertainment with these, I'm most certain.

[chanteuser]

[ this means war. ]

I said the other day you could make something colourful and interactive, and it would win a kid over easily. But this is kinda... taking that to a new level of mastery, huh?

[ her shark's jaws snap open with a squeeze of the handle and


bite down on the top jaw of sharon's t-rex. ]

[ NOM. ]

[maidforservice]

[another giggle]

Then truly whoever came up with this intriguing invention is a marketing genius, are they not?

[OH NO THE POOR T-REX]

[Sharon just kind of lets this happen because why not??? rip T-rex you got eaten by a shark]

[chanteuser]

[ thus proving to the world that jaws is superior to jurassic park. in this essay i will-- ]

It probably doesn't even take that much money to make. And I bet parents would buy it to keep a kid entertained easily enough.

[ she jiggles the shark's jaw a little, as though it is MONCHING. ]

[maidforservice]

[BINCH I'LL FIGHT YOU]

Heehee. Perhaps I should try to bring a few home to the Chairman and Lady Alisa. They aren't children, but they may find these devices just as curious as I do.

[anyway now she is PULLING THE T-REX BACK and trying to chomp the shark. om nom]

[chanteuser]

[ THE ANIMAL GRABBERS HAVE SPOKEN THE TRUTH, AL. ]

That's not a bad idea. I'm not sure if Nicholas would be interested in something like this, but W-- [ ... she goes quiet for a moment, before shaking her head. ]-- well.

Maybe they'd make Nina smile.

Are those friends from home? Or... [ those are quite formal titles, aren't they? ] Are they people you work for?

[maidforservice]

[THE ANIMAL GRABBERS DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT YOU CAN'T BEAT JURRASSIC PARK]

[also that pause doesn't go unnoticed, but. . . Sharon doesn't pres]

The Chairman and Lady Alisa are my employers, of course. But more than that-- they are my family.

[she sounds so fond!!!]

I've been a humble servant of their household for nine years now.

[chanteuser]

[ the fun fact here is i've only seen each of them once and am not fussed about seeing them again okay bye ]

So they employ you, but you're family as well? [ ... it sounds a bit like loretta, with galahad and marco. the idea sounds... nice. ]

That doesn't leave sort of... lines you feel you can't cross with them?

WEEK 0, the other sunday

[chanteuser]

[ well this has been a terrible no-good weekend all around, hasn't it?

making a beeline for the kitchens in order to get a drink seems like a good idea right about now, so that's where alex is headed. ]

[maidforservice]

[HOPE YOU DON'T MIND COMPANY ALEX, cuz Sharon is here making herbal tea!! though. . . she seems out of it, gaze staring off into the distance as the tea boils]

[hm]

[chanteuser]

[ sharon's fine where she is, hello there miss maid. ]

... Sharon?

[ she doesn't really want to break that concentration, or the silence but...

does so anyway ]

[maidforservice]

[and just like that, she is back. her gaze snaps up and she flashes Alex a polite smile]

Lady Alex. May I help you with something?

[chanteuser]

Alex.

[ it’s said firmly, but friendly. no “lady” here. ]

I’m fine. Are you okay, though? You seemed a million miles away.

[maidforservice]

. . . Miss Alex. My apologies.

[she's so distracted she keeps forgetting who told her to drop the overly formal honorifics and who hasn't. whoops]

I'm quite all right, thank you for asking. I suppose I am just thinking about Master Virid.

[chanteuser]

Ah...

[ ... ]

It's kinda difficult not to think about him, isn't it?

[maidforservice]

. . . yes. It is. Just as it's difficult not to think about Lady Hajime or Master Pikachu.

[so many lives lost in so little time]

[chanteuser]

[ every time we type "virid killed pikachu" or some variation of it i age a year ]

Yeah. All of them...

[ she sighs. ]

Whatever I thought would happen here, murder wasn't it.

[maidforservice]

. . . I had my concerns.

[BECKS MUST BE LIKE 200 BY NOW]

When the kitchen knives started disappearing, I feared we wouldn't make it through this without some sort of bloodshed.

[chanteuser]

I didn't really predict the guillotine.

[ i'm getting there. i'll be dust soon. ]

... Being on edge is one thing, but I was hoping no one would feel the need to use those knives. Other than for, y'know. Cooking.

[maidforservice]

I do not believe any of us could have predicted the guillotine.

[a tiny, tight smile]

. . . human nature is not always having the restraint that one should. And while Master Virid's actions were-- upsetting. . .

[. . .]

He truly was suffering, wasn't he?