Post Nine: Dance?

[witchofthechalk]

What is this dance thing everyone's talking about now. I didn't think we had any lords here to throw balls.

[And she's not even going to ask about Morris dances....bad memories.]

Comments

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Well, I think I know what you'd do.

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

And what would that be?

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Practical. You would talk it out over a cup of--coffee, and discuss it all very calmly. Next hundred of years, go along your own way cordially, forgive, forget.

Something of the sort.

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

Is there something wrong with that?

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

But that's quite impossible.

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

You don't know that.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

I do.

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

If you think that, then you've just given up.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

I should have known better than for you to understand.

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to understand.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem like you're trying very hard.

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

Then help me understand better.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

... Well.

It's personal, that's all.

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

That won't help me understand!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

I don't ask you to divulge your personal affairs with that highly suspect relationship with that man.

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

You-

Of all the stupid-

You say I'm not making an effort to understand you? Well you aren't making an effort to be understood!

And there is nothing suspect about my relationship with Howl! I have been nothing but honest about him from the start!

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

What's all this about his heart?

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

[Sighs]

It isn't my place to say. I was thoughtless bringing it up.

But the Howl I married had his heart. I wouldn't have ever agreed to it, had he not.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

I thought a demon took it.

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

He didn't take it. Howl gave it to him in a contract. However I was able to return his heart, as they both wanted out of that contract.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

That begs many questions.

What contract?

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

[She sighs again, and takes a seat.]

Calcifer, the fire demon, needed a heart to live. Howl gave his heart to him in exchange for power.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

Then why was he unsatisfied with the contract?

[eldest-hatter.livejournal.com]

There were side affects. The longer the contract lasted, the more they could lose themselves. Another pair lost themselves completely in such a contract.

[is-an-island.livejournal.com]

He got his heart back at the end?