harroweve

[Long description:

Redmond finds herself in the thick of Hell’s Gate’s Harroweve festivities. Everyone around her wears a mask, dressed in elaborate costumes of spirits, monsters, heroes of old. The only ones who aren’t are her and the reverend, who approaches her from out of the crowd.

Jesse: Ms. Faraday! You made it!

Redmond: I wasn’t going to, but Kai said there would be cider…

Redmond puffs up her chest as the reverend takes her place beside her.

Redmond: This used to be a perfectly respectable holy day, you know. Now you’ve gone and bastardized it with this mask nonsense.

She shoots the reverend a scrutinizing look.

Redmond: What are you, anyway? You said you’d dress up.

The reverend is in uncharacteristically cheeky humor.

Jesse: I’m surprised you don’t recognize me.

She smiles at Redmond.

Jesse: I’m the devil.]

July 6, 2019

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Harroweve is my shameless adaptation of Halloween in Moribund. (that’s probably where Jesse and Redmond’s story is headed, to nobody’s surprise.) It’s only similar in name, but it’s still a good excuse to dress up as something fun.

it’s also the second occasion on which jesse gets decked.

Continued here.