#sarah1

In the art of being honest, Elba was absolutely envious whenever she travelled into this part of Bloodhearth. She’d found sanctuary in her quiet cabin, but how much better could you sleep at night knowing you were safe? As a child, you couldn’t know years from now you’d worry about the safety of where you laid your head. Her childhood twin mattress had been unlike any place in the world, because it’d never touched reality. Whenever fiction novels were consumed, it was the closest Elba could get to sitting inside of that bed again. The plushness of their sofa reminded her of it, too. She sighed somewhat hazily and leaned back entirely. If she closed her eyes, she could just pretend. But then she heard heels approaching and pinched herself out of the daydream to greet the face.

“Sarah!” Elba shot up straight in her seat, a polite smile evident. She appeared shy. “My phone died. I’m bad with heads ups.”

The territory of the Banshees and the Sirens was not somewhere Orlaith was meant to be as per the agreement with her father, but since she hadn’t ever let that stop her before, she wasn’t likely to start now, was she? Coming here straight from work was an easy way to slip away from her security - if you could call them that - unnoticed. What Orlaith hadn’t done was escape one prison to live in another, trapped within the confines of Obsidian City, instead of having the whole island at her feet. 

Anyway, she enjoyed the Siren Show. Why shouldn’t she come, as she had the year before? And the year before that too, now she thought about it. Orlaith had slipped here alone; it was easier to melt into a crowd that way, rather than in a group. Of course, that meant she had to find somewhere to sit that wasn’t in the middle of a big group— easier said than done. She’d had to, much to her chagrin, climb many of the stairs to find a place that looked as though she could squeeze into it. 

Most others in this selfish city would have just sat, but Orlaith asked, “Are you saving this seat for anyone?” Better to be polite than piss the wrong person off so far from home and protection. 

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