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Quest 313

[Accidental Voice Post]

[The audio opens here with a clatter, as a Network device accidentally knocked askew goes tumbling to the ground and switches on by mistake--]

Oh, that horrible--it's ticking!

[There's an aghast pause, and then a shuffling flurry of movement, and then--]

Oh, no, no, no, it can't be, it--no, no, it can't--

[And with a little more rustling...]

--a machine!

[And it's quite impressive, really, how much horror and disgust and loathing she manages to compress into that one single word, and in the silence that follows before the feed switches off, the very faint sound of clockwork gears clicking can be heard.]

[OOC: Posting kind of early because I have an exam on Monday (ugh) but I didn't want to risk missing this curse because machines. TL;DR, Rosella (and everyone from Daventry) canonically loathes machinery, specifically of the clockwork-and-gears variety, so being turned into a clockwork princess today is...well. Subtle body horror at its finest? WELCOME TO OCTOBER IN THE CITY, I suppose. o/]

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Rosella? Where are you? Are you all right?

I'm ticking!

Yes, so am I. But are you all right? Or, will you be all right?

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Do you mean you, or is there something else?

No, it's me, it's--there's something coming out of my back, I think, and--

Oh, yes, I've that too. It's a key. It's for keeping your springs wound.

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You seem extremely upset.

It's horrible!

I don't disagree, but upsetting yourself over it serves no purpose.

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Excuse me?

In my back, it's--I'm ticking...

Do you want me to look at it?

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Oh, no.

It's--sticking out of my back, a great awful key...

I was going to call and ask if you were all right...

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[It's late in the day, but he's been at work and only able to reach her by network. Saya will have been there - though it's always debatable how much she'll help, he doesn't need to rush when she's there.

So it's later when Chase knocks at the princess' door, a small box in his hands.]

[She's had a few visitors by the time Chase arrives, and while there's still that lingering sense of panic rooted somewhere deep, deep down in her psyche at the thought of what this curse has done, she's coping with it about as well as can be expected.

So while the knock comes as something of a surprise, the fact that she has a visitor when she answers the door doesn't quite.]

Hello, Dr. Chase.

[She runs down faster if she's too excitable, so she's trying her best to be calm.]

[He nods a little, letting himself in once the door's open.]

Princess Rosella. [Since they're being official.] How're you feeling?

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You need a hand, sweetheart?

I need it out of me!

Won't that do you some harm?

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rosella?

--Dave?

Dave, it's in my back, it's--I can't--it's a machine!

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It'll be okay, okay? Just calm down, deep breaths... complete sentences...

Penny! Oh, Penny, it's awful--!

You are best ever.

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