Glory meets The Lady Lim

Characters in this scene: Glory, Lady Lim

Location: Sanctuary

Glory hesitantly knocks on the door of the Lady Lim's office.

"You caught me at a good time Princess the Glorious." Lady says. Her voice is normal volume but it carries effortlessly through the door, "Please, come in."

Glory peeks her head through the door. "Hey. I would've buzzed for you, but one of my goblins jabbed a fork into me and Silver's room's buzzer and shocked themselves pretty bad in the process. Another also stuffed their shit in through there. Sorry ‘bout that, by the way."

"I'm not surprised. You actually don't have to apologize - while you're in Sanctuary it is your room. As my Demesne, it is a very small matter to clean up most mundane stains and I can have your room reset to its normal state every 24 hours, if you like."

"But please, either sit and stand and tell me about the business that brought you to my office." Lady offers.

Glory nodded, and stepped inside, but remained standing. "I won't take too much of your time, it's just a quick request."

She hesitated for a moment, but took a deep breath, and continued. "I know me and Silver are meant to keep our presence kinda hidden, but there's someone I would like to invite to Sanctuary for a meeting."

The Lady nods, "With their resources, a certain Faerie Marquis likely already knows you are here. So I do not see much of a point to hide your presence too much, except perhaps for from fools who would seek to curry favor from him."

"I do try to encourage Sanctuary to be used as a neutral meeting ground. Who is this someone you speak of and what is the general reason of the meeting?"

Glory looked down, and then away from Lady Lim, tapping her foot. She then looked up to her, and speaks.

The Lady's eyebrows raise up tall, a considerable reaction to what Glory tells her.

The Lady pauses to think, her mind racing. She makes several deductions in a short span of time, "You are very desperate, indeed."

Glory nods. She sits down, hunched over, resting her elbows on her knees. She taps her foot in contemplative thought. "Yeah, I am. With everything that's going on, I'm going to need all the help I can get."

She then sighs. "Or, at the very least, I can try to leaven the pressure on me and Silver at the moment."

Lady gives Glory a keen look, "And is this particular move one that your partner Lady Silver both knows about and approves of?"

Glory shakes her head. "No. She doesn't. I... think this might be a meeting that should done without her. I would really appreciate it if you gave us a private room to talk. Maybe divert Silver's attention during the meeting."

She tries to look away from Lady Lim, but a clear look of mixed guilt and hesitance was on Glory's face.

Lady Lim stood still, paused, and sighed, "I will only approve your request - but only if you have Lady Silver's knowledge and permission. The reason for this is simple, it is exactly as I stated to you in your reading - you and Lady Silver are equals and while this may be a solution to your issue of now, you are simply created another issue later through the same action - if not multiple ones."

"This is a deal with a Devil and if you want to succeed you need the help of your partner at your back."

"You will not be surprised, I do not want this person visiting Sanctuary but I will allow it for your and Lady Silver's sake - but not just for your own. Do you understand?"

Glory looks down, not saying anything for a while. "I-I'm still not even sure about if I want to do this at all," she says.

She sighs. "Me and Silver are still looking at other viable options at the moment. Right now, I'm just checking to see if this one is open. Maybe we'll do it, maybe we won't. I don't know right now."

She continues tapping her foot on the ground. Still hunched over, her her hands are clasped together , resting at her mouth "But... if I do - or-or we aren't really left with any other options, then I'll tell her."

Glory nods her head slightly. "Yeah. I'll ask for Silver's permission if we're going to have that meeting."

Lady nods back in response, "I understand. It is a genius action with the potential to go wildly right or wildly wrong - much like the Wheel of Fortune card from your reading, your 'go to maneuvers' often resemble a gambler going 'All-In.'"

"But here's the difference," The Lady starts. "You are no longer alone in this world. I know you had your goblins before, but they are mostly friends or servants - as Others they know too well the transient nature of life and don't look out for your well being in the same way a true partner, a true co-conspirator would."

"From my viewpoint, it was Auspice that brought you and Lady Silver together. Until that day you first arrived in my Office, you still had not yet told each other your darkest secrets.  Since that time, has she not borne your stories, vulnerabilities, confessions - in deep trust?"

Lady continues, "I do not tell you this to shame you, but to further show you that you are capable of changing at this moment...my viewpoint in life is that we are all objects in motion, as the English mathematician and physicist Newton claimed something akin to, "'Objects at rest stay at rest. Objects in motion stay in motion unless an equal and opposite force acts against it."

"From my viewpoint, you could not have made any different decisions from the start of your life until this point - so was the great force that has catapulted you across time to this point. With Lady Silver's Famulus bond, with the Faerie Marquis situation, and with your stay in Sanctuary this is the first point in your life I believe you truly have the freedom to act and make different choices." Lady says.

"Make them good ones."

Glory scratches her hair. "Um, who's Auspice? I don't think we've met them yet."

Lady laughs, it's a gentle sound that is a laugh with Glory and not at her, "I speak as Auspice as good fortune or beneficent karma herself and do not refer to an Other or Incarnation."

Glory gives a small smile. "Ah, yeah, that makes more sense."

She then pauses for a moment, thinking quietly to herself in that time with a contemplative expression on her face. "I do think you're on to something with me - with all that's been going with me. For a long while, I-I have mostly been just drifting for a looong while. I've been Awakened for about 6 years, but I'm not that good of a Practitioner at all.  Spent most of the time just screwing around."

She sits herself back, sitting up straight, looking up towards the Lady of House Lim with a resolute focus in her eyes. "I do feel like I'm at a turning point in my life for once. At some stage of my life where I'm going to be making some big decisions, different decisions than what I chose. Things are going to change, from now on."

"I have no doubt they will." Lady responds simply, "It is your life and ultimately your decisions to make. I appreciate you coming to me with this issue, because it shows me that you are willing to show someone with power respect, assuming they respect you as well. Regardless if you go through with your initial proposed action...I recommend you talk to Lady Silver about it. I believe it will ease her curiosity and also bring you ultimately closer together."

"Is our business concluded?"

Glory nods, and begins to stand up. "Yeah, I think so. Thanks, Lady Lim, you've really helped me and Silver a lot."

She then blinks. "Oh, wait, there is one more thing I'd like to ask you about!" She exclaims.

Lady smiles, it seems genuine, "Sure, Princess the Glorious - what is it?"

"Would it be against the rules of Hospitality to hack into the US and/or Canadian Government Criminal Database and delete a couple of files from there?" She asks sheepishly.

"Obviously so. It would be akin to, how do I put it...using your host's computer to illegally download a popular movie. Would the ensuing copyright claim go to the downloader or the host?"

"Even if you'd likely never get caught, the metaphor I believe works. The spirits still See."

"If you wish to risk such an action, I recommend taking one of our doors to New York, Chicago, or San Francisco and doing the hack from there - and not using the internet of the hotel that hosts Sanctuary, either."

"Ah, good to know. Thanks for the advice, Lady Lim!" Glory walks back to the door, and begins to exit out of her office.

Lady laughs a little at Glory's lack of 'exiting decorum'. Though the Cybergoblin Princess is likely out of earshot, she says,"You're welcome, Princess the Glorious. I wish you and yours luck and wellness."