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- "The white curtain rises upon a world once enshrouded," Amaryllis rises and spins, grabbing her mug off the table with a theatrical gesture. "So chime the Muses' bells, that their blessing they might offer." Her voice rises into a crescendo.
- "As this one tells tale of a House now confounded." The servant flashes a grin to her singular audience as she continues, finishing her drink and clearing her throat.
- "A crumbling of stone and clipping of wings rends a now empty coffer." She tosses her empty mug onto the table for effect.
- "How? By a world haze's retreat, lost cursed blessing of the Iifa tree!"
- "An infernal decree, for airships to fall, their license to flight withdrawn."
- "Alas! Found nearly alone, in the ashes of dawn: one princess, all pleasures..." A pause, as Amaryllis taps her chin in thought. "...forgone." Picking up the cadence again, she goes on.
- "Now two in a pair, a drop in diaspora, condemned to be free!"
- "Hold. This is your story, not mine." Her voice drops out of its theatrical tone into a quiet, flat monotone. A few seconds contemplation, and she regains her dramatic composure.
- "She had of mentors alchemy and sorcery!"
- "Aisles of magisters, archivalists too!"
- "For the fated day to take seat at the aerie" Amaryllis steps onto a stool, raising one hand to the ceiling and taking a deep breath.
- "Head of House Aitchison, Lindblum's House of Great Virtue!" Another moment's pause, as she steps down into a lower, solemn stance.
- "Wherefore dost one fall, from heights so lofty?"
- "Let me repeat O Muses, the most macabre of mantras:"
- "From blood is man wrought, and to it shall he return."
- "And all blood is equal in all this world's dogmas:"
- "For the titles of nobles, Gaia has no concern."
- "When to dust the stage crumbles, the fall commences not softly."
- "No mercy for any, not even one girl with all her birth's beauty."
- "On favors burned, on debts recalled," Amaryllis steps across the room extending her arms in a flourish.
- "So she traveled, by the world enthralled."
- "From the Grotto of Gizmalaluke, to the deserts of Cleyra!"
- "From lowly slums of Treno to courts of Alexandria!" She continues making her way to and forth across the room in a zigzag.
- "No obstacle, no burden too great,"
- "To see fulfilled one vision ornate!"
- "At destiny one day she'll arrive,"
- "And see House Aitchison, in its glory, revive!"
- With one final jaunt across the room, Amaryllis stops in front of Natalie's armchair. "So, how was that?"
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