week 1 - day 3

[productions]

murder manor week one



wednesday

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Kanaya Maryam

[speakveryclearly]

[Her sixth day in the manor and she's starting to form a routine. She's worn different outfits every day so far because good god if there's one benefit to their captivity that's it. Today she passes through the halls of the Sapphire Wing instead of the music room to descend firstfloorwards, staircaseways. So to be social she'll make herself available in the ballroom during breakfast. Her conversation is light enough, open without being rapacious; she leaves any food entirely untouched, hands folded behind her back.

Once breakfast-time is over she heads to the kitchen to fetch utensils and other items with which to treat fruit; when she has her salt-water soaked slices delicately arranged on a tray, she takes them out with her to the conservatory, where she spends some time adjusting the position of the tray on the table to see where it would best catch the sunlight, without crowding out the pre-existing potted plants. As on past days, she lingers here for a long time admiring the plants; today marks her discovery of the garden, which fascinates Kanaya even more deeply.

After she's had her fill of sunlight, she returns indoors, to the second floor, and kills some time practicing harp in the music room. Not very well, this being her third day on the instrument. Most of this is her waiting to run into Kaoru.

The rest of the day she winds down reading, in the library rather than the study just for a change of pace. She doesn't spend long with any one volume, fifteen minutes at absolute most. However, most often when the room is empty or contains only one other person, she can be observed to spend more extensive periods of time studying her notebook.]

Library ☩ 1:30

[obsideo]

(Marlow is also in the library. She's spent most of the morning continuing to explore by herself, but after lunch, she goes down to the library. She's there in a far corner by herself, looking for something. But eventually she's bound to fun into Kanaya.)

[speakveryclearly]

[Sure enough at one point when she mechanically gets up to substitute her book for another, she sees Marlow searching through the shelves. Oh, it's the other literature-inclined girl. Not getting another book when hers is put back, she initiates conversation instead.]

You know, I haven't even determined what course of study would be the most productive to pursue in this place.

[obsideo]

(She nods, clearly starting to get a little frustrated.)

Neither have I. Actually, I'm looking for something specific, but I don't know what I'm looking for.

[speakveryclearly]

...isn't that kind of specificity's antonym?

[Oh well.] Any idea at all...