Where am I?

  • Aalis
  • The Library
  • Maison-Dieu
    • Servitor
  • The Uniform
    • Unburied
  • The Vicomte
  • Pestilence
  • Medicine
  • Sign language
  • Sewing
  • Strength
  • Plague doctor uniform and mask, perfumed with lavendar
  • My father's medical library
  • Blackmail on the Vicomte
  • Maison-Dieu
  • Servitors of the Lineage Resource
  • Cateline : my best friend, confidante.
  • Vauquelin : the apothecary owner.
  • Rolant : my lover.
  • Pestilence (immortal): he wears the Plague doctor's mask, but he does not heal.
  • Black Lesions: they radiate out from my eyes and up from my left hand -- the one Pestilence held.

Journal

Servitor

Sic transit gloria mundi : so passes away worldly glory.

Prompt
Generations of the same family serve you. This line starts from any living mortal Character or from the descendants of a dead mortal Character. What bizarre rituals do they tie to their servitude? Lose a Resource and create a Servitors of the Lineage Resource.

I recognized Rolant's carriage instantly. I was so happy. He finally came to visit me. But when he exited, he escorted a veiled woman. I met him in the Foyer -- he saw me, I know he did, but his glance only snagged for a second. My lesions have grown darker and more pronounced, and I swear I saw him flinch.
He handed the woman he was escorting -- his wife? his lover? -- to Jeanne Marie, the head of the Manor. She accepted the woman gracefully. They had the rhythm of people who have danced this dance before.
I was such a fool.
The woman's name was Marie-Claude. She spoke more softly than I do. She bled so brightly. Amidst the gore, she gave birth to a healthy daughter, Vivienne.
I buried Marie-Claude by the roses. It felt like I should. I held Vivienne as she wailed for a mother she never met.
Vivienne grew up so fast. She reminded me of my younger self: fascinated by all things anatomical, the machinations of this world and its inhabitants. She was inoculated to my disfigurement, and never shied from the stare. She dreamed a world beyond the manor grounds. How could I deny her that which I had been unwilling to forgo?
Such a loyal servant. She tattooed her body to imitate my lesions. And when she died, her son did the same.

-1 Resource: Maison-Dieu
+1 Resource: Servitors of the Lineage Resource
Time passes and all mortals die: -3 Characters

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