gardienne: (what?)
Eponine Thenardier ([personal profile] gardienne) wrote in [community profile] thecapitol2013-08-19 08:07 pm

Just watching the night sky...

Who: Eponine and OPEN
What: Eponine's pondering on a rooftop. Do come and join her.
Where: Rooftop of the training centre
When: Soon after the date auction
Warnings: Eponine - so generally quite dark thoughts... and I guess any warnings anyone else cares to bring with them.



At home, when Eponine had to think, when she had a lot on her mind, she walked. She walked and she walked sometimes, wandering the dirty streets of St. Michel until she reached the wider roads where the houses didn't bear down on her, and she could see the stars. She had a particular ditch she used to make for, a deep one, sheltered from the wind, and without too much mud in the bottom, cushioned as it was with grass. Sometimes, her nights in the ditch were the happiest she had had in a long time. She liked it at night better than the day; the streets were empty. There were no jeers or stares or catcalls, and she could talk out loud without people pointing her out as 'mad'.

She likes to walk in the Capitol too. Usually. She knows the place well by now, a year on. She knows the shortcuts and the places to avoid. But the stares - the stares she hates. She needs to walk now - there is so much on her mind after the date auction. Why she was strapped down for a start, but Howard and Marius too... and had that rock man really called her beautiful? She needs to walk... but at night, she is not allowed out of the Tribute tower - and she does not want to be shot again, so sneaking out is impossible. So she does the next best thing. She goes up to the garden on the top of the Tribute tower. Helping herself to an ever-blossoming lily, Eponine settles in the grass. Bringing the lily to her nose, she breathes deep, and just watches the stars. So beautiful... Slowly, in her croak, she begins to sing softly to herself.

"Mon ami me délaisse, Ô gai, vive la rose, Je ne sais pas pourquoi,Vive la rose et le lilas. On dit qu'elle est plus belle,Ô gai, vive la rose, Je n'en disconviens pas, Vive la rose et le lilas."

[Translates as My boyfriend dumped me, oh joy, long live the rose. I do not know why. Long live the rose and the lily. They say she is beautiful, oh joy, long live the rose. I do not disagree, long live the rose and the lily.]
knifewithnoname: (listening)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2013-09-27 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Pruna shrugged, "I do no be having lots of friends, do you no be needing to be knowing each other better first?" She shook her hand though, she had learned how to do that.

"It do be being a deal and if you do be needing anybody to be dying ad do no be wanting to be killing them you can be asking me. But I will no be killing Sandy." She pointed at her, a warning.
knifewithnoname: (thinking)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2013-09-28 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
"Well we can be friends." She wrinkled her nose again, "If you do be wanting to be being." She nodded because this place was weird and her sister had been her only friend at home too. Except she had never thought of her like that, just as her sister.

She nodded at the last, figuring that Eponine might not need anyone dead yet, but it might change. "That do be being good, it do be meaning you do be being brave."
knifewithnoname: (smiles)

[personal profile] knifewithnoname 2013-10-01 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Stupid people can never be being brave, they do just be being stupid." She told her and then nodded, looking at her suspiciously. "Okay... we can be being friends." She nodded and held out her fist for Eponine to bump it. That's what friends did as a greeting. That or slapping hands but that was noisy.

"Yes let's be taking it."