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Iris Whisper
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You peer back the way you've come, behind the palace seems to be just painted sky. Brother Juan flutters his hands "Well okay no, behind and to the left." You see that to the side of the palace is a curtain from ceiling to floor, like the one that cut off the prison you woke in.
"I should give you the tour" says Juan "But there's really not much to it. He points to the squat palace structure "Lets call that north. The workshop is east of that, don't go in there. South from the palace are the gardens where we are now. East of that is a door you do not talk about, and west is a room with a door you do not talk about." You can see most of this floor of the house has been hollowed out, with scars of former walls running along the distant ceiling. One room remains, jutting out of the wall to the 'west'. You can't see a door, presumably ahead of you on its 'south' side, but you do see the other door he mentioned. To your east a landscape of hills and far mountains covers the wall, and also a great human scale door.
"Further south" Juan continues "We have the Duchess' manor. East of that is the prison. And that's it, everywhere you need to know. Now." He rubs his hands together, getting into the swing of it. "We can discuss playing your roles. Really there's not much to it, usually. Just, don't contradict the king. I mean if he orders something you can't do, just agree and move on. You'll probably be fine."
"It's all improvised, mostly. Sometimes he tries to play out specific storylines. When that happens you'll be given a script by the duchess. She meets upstairs every other day, probably planning stories."
"What's with her" you ask "and the other glowing eyed ones?" Juan shrugs "Just... revenants, I don't know. I try not to think abo
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