A Valentine's Day Chord: 1-1 Gift

*No need to be surprised, whether this is our first meeting or not. I've known you longer than you can imagine. This is just an inevitable encounter, so enjoy this small detour.*

### Dialogue Choices

Note: Changing choices when replaying will cost 5

***Beornric:** Who art thou?*

* **Elizabeth Colvin**
	+ Unlocks 1-2 Waypoint
* **Marguerite Gautier**
	+ Unlocks 1-8 Body Measurement
* **Emelia Farrow**
	+ Unlocks 1-14 The Last Potion

## Transcript

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* **???:** Mortal, thou hast tarried. My patience wanes.

* **???:** Wipe that look off thy face. Thou knowest what day it be today.

* **???:** For even the God of Fate craves some delight.

* **Beornric:** Again that look? Ha, what didst thou expect me to say?

* **Beornric:** "Milady, here's a gift to win your heart"?

* **Beornric:** I did indeed prepare a gift for you. Perchance, thou hast not heard it aptly said—

* **Beornric:** "The gifts of Fate art given at a price."

* **Beornric:** For mortals know not the worth of any boon bestowed for free.

* **Beornric:** Now, prove to me that you deserve my gift.

* **Beornric:** Stand thee before the mirror and behold thyself.

* **Beornric:** Who art thou?

Elizabeth Colvin

* **Beornric:** Ah, the reporter in the city of New York.

* **Beornric:** In days of yore, thou didst labor in misery, until by fortune's grace, thou entered the employ of the Gotham Times.

* **Beornric:** Thy tidings of the race to erect the city's tallest building didst garner universal acclaim.

* **Beornric:** Anon, thou didst secure an audience with famed aviator Charlotte Harris, and together, the assembly of alumni did ye attend.

* **Beornric:** Pray tell, should Charlotte implore thee to report on her upcoming aeronautical feats...

* **Beornric:** What news could I expect to hear from thee?

Marguerite Gautier

* **Beornric:** Well met, fair seamstress from Star City.

* **Beornric:** Methinks we may forgo thy sorry sojourn at the Mad Rabbit Club.

* **Beornric:** To thy travels on Sapphire Island shall we turn instead?

* **Beornric:** Thine encounters didst alter the course of thy life, and lead thee to thine paramour.

* **Beornric:** Not only didst thee usher in a new age of fashionable trousers for women...

* **Beornric:** ...thou wert graced by the enchanting company and culinary prowess of the witty Mr. Midas.

* **Beornric:** Prithee, if Gary Reno had a friend of yore in need of thy tailoring expertise...

* **Beornric:** What manner of masterpiece wouldst thou create?

Emelia Farrow

* **Beornric:** Apothecary from Marlisle, we meet again.

* **Beornric:** I had thought to begin, "Once upon a time, thou wert an ill-starred apothecary, ranked last in the Guild..."

* **Beornric:** But wherefore should I utter "once upon a time" when thou hast traversed through myriad times ere this?

* **Beornric:** Lo! Let us return to the very start of our tale—

* **Beornric:** —when the shooting star was not yet a shooting star, and the long night had not yet descended. In the absence of night, there was no dawn...

* **Beornric:** Be thee not so dismayed. In the absence of dawn, there is yet dusk.

* **Beornric:** What sayest thee? Fewer riddles, more clues? 'Tis been so long, I'd forgotten the quickness of thy tongue.

* **Beornric:** As thou art the apothecary who holds the dearest place in my heart, I shall say this but once, though naturally, thou mayst read it time and time again.

* **Beornric:** Were thee and mine avatar to journey back to the very moment ye met...

* **Beornric:** What follies would befall by thine own hand?