Missing (OTA)

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Liz stood in the middle of the lobby with a quiet, panicked look on her face. She turned around a second time, surveying the scene around her, but the second pass didn't help any. She ran a hand through her hair and then headed for one of the couches. She pulled back the cushions, digging her hand into the crevice of the gaudy plush decor and when her hand emerged empty, she felt her chest tighten.

Liz's journal was missing.

She thought she had brought it back to the room yesterday after studying in the cafe, but this morning when she went to review her notes from the day before, she had discovered that the familiar book she had so many things in was gone. She had checked the library, the restaurant, the cafe, even the kitchen itself. It had to be somewhere, right?

(ooc: Find her pretty much anywhere. Also! Feel free, if your character would so choose, to find the journal and read all or some of it because I am a cruel mistress.)

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Re: Regina & Liz

[st_oriedqueen]

"Rarely. But a diary is rarely a comforting confidant. It's too much of a mirror." She allowed herself a small only slightly bitter laugh for that.

"My husband had no interest in me, his daughter was a brat, and so, it was inevitable, that eventually I would look to find a companion." Let the girl believe, if she would, that she had sought another love, when what she had sought was an excuse. It made the point of the story no less potent. If anything, more. "And, of course, I would write of my new friend in my journal.

"Listen, well, and do not miss my point when I say: my husband found and read the book, and in short order, another man was dead." How he had come to be so and which were not for Liz.

Re: Regina & Liz

[st_hotflashes]

She frowned deeply. It was, of course, pretty much her deepest fear. That someone bad would find her diary and used it against the people she loved.

"I'm really sorry." There was no fixing it, of course, but Liz wished Regina didn't have to go through that.

Re: Regina & Liz

[st_oriedqueen]

Regina only barely suppressed a roll of her eyes. "My experiences were not my point." And neither did she want misplaced sympathy for a murder she'd all but commissioned.

"What I mean for you to understand is that by contrast to my experience, no one is dead or in danger of dying, on the one hand, so your distress is extreme. And on the other hand, if you possess information that could be dangerous, either don't write it down, or doing a better job protecting the information. With a lock, for example."

Re: Regina & Liz

[st_hotflashes]

At the inn, it was probably harmless. She didn't think there was anyone who would use information in her journal against someone. Peter seemed pretty open about who he was and no one here really cared about Max or the others.

Liz gave a slow nod. "You're right... I'm sorry." Especially compared to her story, Liz's worries seemed stupid.

Re: Regina & Liz

[st_oriedqueen]

Now Regina sighed openly. "Liz. Child. Save your apologies for when you're asked for one or you're certain one is owed. If you apologize for every last thing, it will come to be less meaningful than the boy crying 'wolf'."

Her eyes closed briefly and she shook her head, then held out her hand. "Give the journal to me. I'll need a drop of your blood, too."