Event Log: Regret This

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Who: Everyone!
What: The Regret This event
Where: Throughout the city
When: June 25th-July 3rd
Warnings: Sorrow is resurrected, and everyone is immediately full of regrets

Hope has finally managed another god resurrection, and the people have spoken! On June 25th, he musters his powers and brings Sorrow back to Hadriel. An orchard appears across the river, in the until now ruined part of the city, and Sorrow's temple is also restored. Hooray! One more god to make things a little more livable in this place.

Of course, it's not that easy. It never is. Along with Sorrow himself comes a wave of regret and guilt that blankets the city. All those affected will be inclined to not only be sad, but to linger over past regrets and things they feel guilty about. They can distract themselves with everyday tasks or whatever else they please, but they'll find that their thoughts drift back to these regrets regardless of what they do.

And of course, the best way to purge a guilty conscience is confession, right? On top of these persistent sad thoughts, people will feel the urge to tell others about them, to air their past mistakes or misdeeds and possibly receive some kind of forgiveness. So what if your neighbor doesn't care that you cheated on your final exams all through school? You have to tell someone, and they're right there. If it doesn't make you feel better, that probably means you haven't confessed to enough people yet, or maybe you just haven't found the right person. Better try again!

On July 3rd, Sorrow has settled in and this urge to confess your sins will die down, along with the constant regret. Let's hope you didn't confess anything too personal. Remember, you're gonna have to see some of these people every day.

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Comments

[alayne]

Yes.

[ and she feels bad for it. she should have been searching for her, if something happened to her out there, in a city who is foreign and dangerous, she would not have forgiven herself. she has much she does not forgive herself for already. only, she is a craven. Arya is bold and ferocious, has always been, Sansa has always cowered away, Sansa has never been as brave, despite being her older sister, she was meant to protect her and how terribly she has failed. ]

Will you sit with me?

[whichend]

[ Arya frowns. ]

You ought not to stay in one place for so long.

[ It isn't safe, and it's not good for you, either. Even so, Arya sits. She will do anything for her sister. She wants to help, in any way she can. Arya feels like a craven too -- she might be bold on the outside, but she knows she's nothing more than a stupid child, who's been running away for years. ]

We could -- we could go downstairs? I think there are ingredients for lemon cakes, somewhere.

[alayne]

Lemon cakes?

[ sansa smiles a little, what a place to find lemon cakes at! hidden in between cruelties and beasts. for a moment, she almost looks her age. ]

They are my favorites - you remembered.

[ how cruel she has been, young and vain, to think her sister never cared for her. ]

[whichend]

[ Arya smiles back, and for the first time, she feels like she and Sansa are properly sisters. It's nice, not to be chastised or even punished for remembering something that Arya Stark would have known. Instead, her memory is a good thing, and it makes Arya feel a little warmer inside.

Arya takes her sister's hand and pulls her out of the bed. ]

I couldn't forget. Come!

[alayne]

Arya - wait.

[ she is so fast, her sister. and Sansa hurries after her, slower in her gown and slippers. she doesn't doubt her sister's will power; it seems as if Arya Stark could make lemon cakes out of nothing if she wanted it enough. she smiles as she follows, almost too keen on this moment to let any sorrowful thoughts linger. ]

I am glad you are here.

[ i've missed you. ]

[whichend]

[ Arya does wait, a rare thing, for her, but she'd do anything for Sansa. She stops on the stair and turns to face her sister. Arya smiles, softly. She didn't know until just now that she was still capable of such tenderness. ]

I dreamed of finding you again. I'm happy I have.

[ I missed you, too.

Arya runs back up to Sansa and hugs her, tight, as she should have when Sansa first arrived. ]

[alayne]

Alayne Stone should not have had many dreams.

[ said as she rushes forward, as she wraps her arms around her and holds her close. she smells like the outside, the odd earthy scent of the city but Sansa loves her all the more for it. ]

But she had kept the few Sansa Stark had and kept them well.

[whichend]

Good.

[ Arya buries her face in her sister's chest, as if she could become Sansa as she has become the night wolf. Sansa is warm, soft, all the things Arya had forgotten to be. ]

Sansa's dreams were some of the best parts of her. Alayne did a brave thing. A good thing.