[Filtered from Known DELILAH Members || WARNING Code Failure WARNING Viewable to All]So we're being inundated with these 'tourists' again, it seems. It was only a matter of time, I suppose. It's twice or three or even four times a year, I think, though I always think of it as being something that comes in the summer..
As ever, I never manage to do as I say--to keep to myself, well inside, away from the windows and the Network, and all the rest. I did rather well this time, though, but there's only so long that one can truly keep in hiding. And it never seems to work entirely anyway, if only because it's rather difficult to keep away from all windows and it does become rather tedious. Sooner or later, I do find that I have to go out for one reason or another. And that is all to say nothing of the fact that there are a few people who seem quite capable of coming into the opera house as they please, despite all our efforts to the contrary. And I don't think warning them about He-Who-Kills will do any good either.
I shall, however, keep a close watch for Merry. Riff, if he's here, will find me immediately, so I know I needn't even watch for him. He'll always find me. Merry, though, I shall watch for.
I haven't much hope or wish for anyone else from my world to pay me a call. Although I do recall that my uncle came for a visit one year. And there has frequently been a young man come to call who seemed strikingly familiar but whom I'm sure I didn't know.
Although, there are yet others who seem to come into the City on days like this whom I should still like to see, even if I may not quite hope for it as I did with Riff and now with Merry so long ago and so often.
The little clutch of girls is back under my window, as I knew they would be. I think they may have been there yesterday. By now I'd be rather disappointed if they weren't there. It's still rather flattering. You would think they'd have grown tired of me by now, but perhaps that's the way time works in and out of the City. I shall be tossing them letters again this time, and I do hope they see this on the Network so that they'll be able to catch them. It would be a shame to have them fall to the ground unheeded.
And, yes, exciting as it always is at first, I know I'll be quite exhausted after a few moments of it. But I've had my day of seclusion--indeed, I've been rather holed up and keeping to myself in all sorts of ways of late. And, anyway, I'm out today and these tourists certainly won't mind or care that I've only been about for today. Either that, or they'll be glad that I'm out and therefore available for their remarks. I seem to recall being insulted as much as I was greeted the last time. Somehow that isn't surprising.
So I think I shall be a fool today and show my face. But at least I'm quite aware of my own foolishness. And perhaps there's something clever in that.
Welcome to the City, I suppose.
Though why anyone would visit the City, I shall never understand.
~C.
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