Text | Locked to Unseelie plus Lancelot, Kaldur, and Flora

[gordianknots]

[The message is simple, because there's no reason to elaborate. Everyone knows what's happening and where it'll be. But it needs to be done, so that no one comes to him at the last minute to find things shuttered.]

The Barrel will be closing as of the 27th.

Thank you for your patronage. It has meant the world.

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[manipulative]

[ but katherine doesn't wish to become a pawn once again, wanting to remain the queen on a chessboard that is as volatile as the personalities she runs from and attempts to see slaughtered by another's hand. it's only inevitable, though — despite elijah giving her hope for the future where she is off the board completely, even katherine knows she is never free from such a horrible game. ]

I hate being a pawn. But what of the knights? The bishops? The king? The game of chess must be different here.

Las Vegas was good for shopping — I've never liked gambling. But I did enjoy the shows.

[ and she doesn't doubt she'll enjoy the drabwurld's one, as long as she remains as a spectator and not a participant. ]

[gordianknots]

I doubt it. Maybe there's more pieces, probably, but it's all the same.

[Waver's found that the best way to win is to make up a game with your own rules that makes it only look like you're in on the other game being played. It worked back home and got him far, and it's worked in the Drabwurld too.]

If you're detached enough, this whole world's a show. Just a depressing one.

[manipulative]

Pity. I was hoping chess here would be more fun.

[ she prefers games with no rules. it's the ones she had excelled at — "no rules" had meant her rules, and it had been an attempt by a lonely girl trying to clutch at her freedom that she purposefully shackled the salvatore boys to her with very loose chains. ]

I like my shows with a little more flair — more humor and romance and less grief and despair.

But war is war. Not even a good cup of tea or an incredible glass of wine could ever change how they predictably fall.

[gordianknots]

I hate to reveal the fact I'm a bit of a kill joy, but here we are.

And god, I bet there's something funny to all of this, but the punchline is too dark. Not worth everything that's come before it.

Those things only make watching it play out bearable.

[manipulative]

[ she noticed, waver. ]

One day, we'll simply have to change that. Life's too short to never experience joy, even if it's only for a second.

[ given that katherine doesn't know how to have fun herself, unless it's destroying elena's life, playing with the salvatores, and seeing her own pawns fall ... it'll be a great lesson. ]

If only it would make playing in it bearable. I'll have to make do with my shoes.

[gordianknots]

If you ever come up with any ideas on how to make it so, tell me. I'd probably be more than willing to help.

[Waver knows how much it sucks to play the game, if only because he's canonballed himself into it.]

May you and your shoes continue to be untouched by it then.