ontologically: (No alarms.)
Amy Dallon ([personal profile] ontologically) wrote in [community profile] etrayalogs 2024-05-24 01:38 am (UTC)

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[Amy is sat miserably against the wall. Waiting for her "date" to arrive and bother her with more conversations with a stranger. It helps that Tattletale is in sight, and she can just watch whatever she's doing - in case she looks at Amy like she's going to reveal something.

Sometimes she'll order something up at the counter just to not so subtly take a peek at her cards. The homewrecker one gets something between a grimace and a huff of amusement. It's not wrong.

She avoids any direct conversation until Lisa suddenly leaves, and the bot puts another card down.

She should leave it. But her curiosity gets the best of her and she has to find out what it says.

"Hello, my name is Sarah Livsey. Ask me about my brother."

She's not sure what she should be feeling. Vindication? Confusion? Sarah Livsey... of course, she knows nothing about Lisa's origins. She knows about Alec Vasil's origins - everyone does. And Rachel Lindt too. And Taylor Hebert. But nothing about Lisa.

Ask me about my brother.

She stares at it. Stares at the door that Lisa left through.

Each and every one of them is a freeze frame of a moment that broke them. Never growing older, never moving on. Amy's shard feeds her terror every time she thinks about Victoria. What terror that isn't already there.

What happened to Lisa's brother?

She remembers Lisa's face when she realized what Taylor Hebert had done. She remembers the way that Riley told Taylor Hebert they should talk to Lisa - To Tattletale, first, and the way that Taylor had looked at Lisa with an expression of... guilt. Lisa's speech once she was done rubbing salt into Amy's wounds.

What happened to Lisa? To Sarah Livsey?

It doesn't matter. Amy's under no obligation to feel sorry for her.

It's not sympathy that moves Amy to take the card and rip it up before anyone sees. It's just... professional courtesy.]

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