3rd Orb - 19th of Rebirth's Decline; Evening

[shadedsunlight]

[It's been a long day. Too many long days, but today was particularly taxing between being set free from a curse and injuring the two people she loves most in the process, briefly attending a farce posing as a wedding, and returning as many of her ill-gained goods as possible.

That Ginia happened to find a piano in one of the rooms of the castle was perhaps one of the best things to happen all day. So seated at the piano, having traded her armor and dark clothes for a dress and the only jewelry a beautiful emerald and silver necklace, Ginia sets the orb on the piano, offering the briefest of smiles, being she begins to play.

After she finishes the first song, she pauses before she begins playing her next song.

There's another pause before her third song. It's one that takes a bit of thought and she's not even sure if the person who she wants to hear it is listening, but even if he isn't, maybe someone else will get the message for themselves. So taking a deep breath, Ginia begins to sing and play.

Her fourth, and final song, may be a little strange to anyone familiar with it. However, as Ginia sings and plays Silver Bells, it's intended for one recipient only. Everyone else can simply enjoy it.

Once she's finished, she bows her head modestly and smile as the orb.]

I hope you all enjoyed that. If... you'd like to hear more, I'd be happy to oblige.

((ooc; Yes, that's right, Ginia is talking. As per this log, Helios enchanted a necklace (picked out by Giles) that allows her to talk. The necklace only works if she's wearing it, magic-canceling abilities will prevent the necklace from working.))

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[consultmybooks]

[Do they have a chance? Do they even need a chance? They are together, here and now, and they've both said that they don't want that to change.

Part of Giles is wondering what Ginia is asking, and part of him is afraid that he knows just what she's asking. And so, he can only be honest with her.]

I don't know.

After all, um...not to sound impossibly melodramatic, but it really does seem as though the world is conspiring against us, in that regard.

[Giles has always tried never to promise more than he can give. After all, they don't even know if they'll survive the oncoming thorns. They don't know how death works here.

That doesn't mean he doesn't wish he could.]

[shadedsunlight]

[Giles is a realistic and honest man. To be expected given his life, and she expected as much. Still, Ginia presses, needing something to hold on to, some sliver of hope for the future - that's there even is a future.]

I know. We are an unlucky pair in some ways, blessed in others. But... I don't know. Would you... Ever want to? Get married?

[consultmybooks]

...very much so.

[If it's a case of asking if he'd want to? A case of setting aside the grim here and now and looking in the general direction of some maybe happy future?

That, Giles can answer without hesitation. They might never have the chance, not without rushing in and making a mess of things and taking their minds off the task at hand.

But if they ever did?]

I would be honored.

[It scares him, just a bit, saying those words, and he finds himself holding Ginia a little more tightly almost for reassurance. But the words only scare him because, up until now, he hadn't leth imself hope.

Now he realizes that they both need that.]

[shadedsunlight]

[Even being the one to ask, hearing his response scares Ginia a little. Of course she would marry him, but now that it's out there, now that they both know, it's scary because they could get there. It could be something they could achieve or fail to achieve.

But here and now, they are together. There's hope for the future. Ginia shifts only so she can kiss him. It's been a long time since she's kissed him so, with pure love, devotion, and hope in the tender gesture. She doesn't feel like letting him go either.]

[consultmybooks]

[No matter what the future holds, good or bad...at least they're together again, and they have one another, here and now tonight.

Tomorrow, there's things to be done. There's a business to reorganize, and notes to go over, research to be done and friends to check in on. But that's all tomorrow and tonight, Giles just wants to keep Ginia close and let her know that she's loved, appreciated, and wanted.]