Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-25828117-20190925195201/@comment-5543592-20190927170432

"Still confused about what happened to the orc woman." Baldr said. "Didn't she join them?"

"Nissa you say?" Talin stepped up to the Dunmer woman, who thrust her chest out, causing the crowd to hoot and holler. The wild hair was clearly a wig. "My name is Talin." He bowed his head. "Son of the general, fighter of freedom!  You must join us!"

In the background, Diana stared agape at the pair of them with dramatic, growing horror.

"Shall I?" Nissa said, facing the audience, a conflicted expression on her face.

"You shall!" Zaydate said. "For we fight an unbalance, unequal fight, against an oppressive liege, an oppressive tyrant!  Join us, good hoe, and fight the evil that is Jagar Tharn!"

"Raise a glass to freedom!" Talin cried, a refrained from earlier, and the other six of the Justice Force joined in. He began to march to the edge of the stage ,and they followed in single file. "Something they can never take away! No matter what they tell you!

"Raise a glass to the seven of us!  Tomorrow there will be more of us!"

"Raise a glass to freedom!  To the story of tonight!"

Nissa hopped into line after them and cried out,  "I may not live to see our glory!  But I will gladly join the fight!"

And then all seven together, linking arms--  "To the story of tonight!"

They marched off stage, and the props were pushed off as well. Nissa reappeared on the balcony, and began to monologue.

"Oh but I have my own struggles!  Voices in my a head a plenty, scars on both soul and body!  Who could love a wretch like me?  Imperfect, unwanted!  The pain!" She held her hands to her chest.

Talin appeared behind her, and she turned in extreme startlement when he spoke.

"You're like me." Talin said, singsong note to his voice, taking one of her hands. Below them, on the stage floor, Diana looked up at the pair, her face stricken. A budding romance between her and Talin had been building through the earlier scenes.

"You strike me as a woman who has never been satisfied."

Nissa turned away, shielding her face from him. "Do not look upon me, sir!  You forget yourself."

"You're like me." Talin refrained. "I'm never satisfied."

"Is that right?"

"I've never been satisfied my whole life."

They laced fingers, as Diana looked on in agony, she turned to the audience and began to sing.

"Love doesn't discriminate, between the sinners, and the saints.  It takes, and it takes, and it takes.  And we keep loving anyway.  We laugh, and we cry, and we break, and we make our mistakes. And if there's a reason I'm still alive, when everyone who loves me has died, then I'm willing to wait for it."

"I'm willing to wait for it!"  She cried, voice carrying. This lady could sing.

She pounded her chest, fell to her knees, "Wait for it, wait for it!  I am the one thing in life I can controoooool!  I am an original, I am inimitable!  Nissa faces an endless uphill climb!  She has something to prove, she has nothing to lose!  She waste no time, and she takes, and she takes, and she takes.  And she keeps winning anyway...  and if there's reason I'm still alive, when she seems to thrive, then I'm willing to wait!  By the gods, I'm willing to wait for it!"

She fell to her hands and the crowd boomed with applause. Talin and Nissa vanished from the balcony, Ragnar appeared and pulled Diana from the stage.

Baldr was staring blankly at the stage.