Your fate is in the cards...

“Why, thank you, dear brother. How incredibly kind of you.”

                        “ sister, ”  was her simple greeting to elizabeth as she stepped into the velvet room,  curious golden eyes examining her surroundings.  she was excited to have contact with one of her siblings,  something she had been denied for most of her existence,  but a curiosity fitting of a child had overtaken her already.

“Why, thank you, sister.” Elizabeth had only even been to Lavenza’s Velvet Room a handful of times, but she remembered the area being themed after a prison, which hardly seemed very comfortable, for either her or her guest.

“But as you are well aware, this is simply the form that coincides best with the journey of my guest. I was quite lucky to be an attendant of a room like this.”

“Oh, do not worry about me, brother dearest.”

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“Curioser and curioser….” Pharos mused, expression soft as his eyes continued to follow along the shadows that revealed themselves to him in the dimly lit room he appeared to find himself in. It was new and yet, familiar - calm and yet…there were too many questions left unanswered for the time being. It hardly bore a second thought. He was already here after all, there was little use worrying about it now though his thoughts briefly drifted to the more pressing matter of how he could eventually return back to him. He always did, after all. 

It was only as footsteps wandered closer that he was brought out of his train of thought, raising a finger in question towards the young woman for a moment before returning it to his side upon seeing her figure come into view. Though the woman held no familiarity to him, it was increasingly apparent Minato did as their connection spurned a gentle wash of comfort within his thoughts as his eyes fell upon her once more.

“To think that someone so intrinsically linked to the fate of my guest would arrive in this room... I suppose I should have expected it, in all honesty.”

The woman let out a chuckle, closing the massive book that she had in her hands, and standing up to greet her new guest. Nothing in this room happens without a reason, so the small boy who stood here was brought to this realm by fate.

“Welcome to the Velvet Room. This place exists between dream and reality. Mind and matter. My name is Elizabeth, and I am but a humble attendant of this room. My master is currently away, but should you have any questions, I would certainly be willing to answer them.”

     ❛  Excuse  me,  ❜  yuusuke  steps  forward,  handing  her  something  that  matches  her  striking  deep  blue  outfit.  it’s  a  gold  card  with  her  signature  scrawled  on  the  back.  ❛  I  wasn’t  sure  if  this  belonged  to  you  or  not,  but  here.  It  had  your  picture  on  it,  after  all.  ❜ 

The woman turns around, and takes the card with a soft smile on her face. “Ah, this certainly would be hard to replace if I should ever lose it. Thank you very much.”

She then opens the gigantic book she was carrying around with her, and places the card on a page. The card seems to dissolve into the paper, before she shuts the book once more.

“Oh? Has my attire become the latest fashion around these parts?”

The woman immediately turned to the boy as he mumbles. She had heard what he had said, and was quite interested to know where he had seen an outfit like this before. After all, there weren’t many possibilities.