Week 5

[pleasureislanders]

[Well even despite your best efforts, a murder happened, and you found out that someone you thought was a good friend turned out to be someone who'd kill all of you if they had the chance. So that's a fun way to end a trial, right?

On the bright(???) side, the last bit of the island has opened up! You can go drown your sorrows elsewhere now! Isn't that great?

Look I'm trying my best to stave you guys away from the despair that is "trapped on a murder island", go have fun dancing or something.]

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Midday

[prodigalhairess]

[Rapunzel hadn't watched what was on the mirror. She knew there was... something different about it, thanks to the missing piece being returned, and she won't say she wasn't curious if that changed anything in the image that it held. But that mirror... it had hit Cass so hard. It didn't feel right to watch it without her now.

Well... she'll find out soon what was on the rest of it, it seems, because when she spots Cass sitting in the sand a bit of a ways down the beach from the raft project, she hears that voice. A voice that can still send a chill down her spine, causing it to bend in the slumped, meek posture she usually adapted around her "mother".

Gothel...]

... Cass?

[She's not going to immediately sit down next to her friend, not wanting to startle her or invade in on a private moment, so Rapunzel stands a few feet away. For now.]

Are you... okay?

[feudalladyshandmaid]

I love you, mama-

Raps!

[The voice, this time overjoyed and tiny, is smothered against Cassandra's chest at the sound of her princess's voice.

It's an uncomfortable and long moment stretching between them, every second weighs further on Cass's chest as she attempts to come up with an excuse.]

I-I was just... I'm fine. Really. I just...

[...She's not going to be able to hide this, is she? Though, mercifully, the mirror has turned off, but it was still incredibly obvious just what she had cradled in her arms: the same item that one drove them apart.]

[prodigalhairess]

[Cass is normally so collected, even when she's not calm - Moonstone business aside. Seeing her stuttering and trying to hide the mirror... it's a clue that she's lying straight to Rapunzel's face, but Rapunzel doesn't care about that. She's... heartbroken, really, seeing Cass like this.]

... It's okay to say if you're not, Cass. [She takes a few steps closer, and sits. They're not hip to hip yet, just... close.] I know seeing that again must be... really hard.

[feudalladyshandmaid]

[It's a horrible shame that. Cassandra could lie like the best of them, to Andrew, to other people she barely knew. Lying to Rapunzel was an entirely different hurdle, and far more difficult. She could barely keep herself in check as they neared the Dark Kingdom. And now...?]

It's... [she exhales, not moving away as Rapunzel joins her. Actually, she slides a bit closer.] It's not that. I mean, Ikeep thinking about it; the one hope I had that my mother cared... It was a lie, and I know she was horrible to you, and to me.

I just... some part of me still... wants to have that hope.

[And she sounds ashamed to admit it.]