The Moon wed Saturn

<% s.historylist = [] %> <% s.turncount = 0 %> <% s.class="" %> <% s.lastmon = "" %> <% s.lastwed = "" %> <% s.lastsat = "" %> <% s.currentday = "mon" %> <p><video style="width:0;height: 0" id="bgvid" playsinline autoplay muted src="img/paint.webm" type="video/webm"></video></p> <p><img src="img/pseudavid.png" style="position:fixed; right:40px; bottom:40px; height:100px; width:100px"></p> <script>clearBlock('hero f150 center')</script><div class='narration'><div class='active block hero f150 center' id='hero f150 center'><div class='block-content'> <p>The Moon wed Saturn</p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p> </div></div></div> <script>clearBlock('--O only-portrait')</script><div class='narration'><div class='active block --O only-portrait' id='--O only-portrait'><div class='block-content'> <p>Please rotate your device. It is recommended to play this story with your device in landscape (horizontal) mode. </p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p> </div></div></div> <script>clearBlock('--O only-mobile')</script><div class='narration'><div class='active block --O only-mobile' id='--O only-mobile'><div class='block-content'> <p>You will play a simplified version in this device. The story is playable, but a larger screen is necessary for illustrations and the full design.</p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p> </div></div></div> <script>addOp( "Content warnings","warnings")</script><script>addOp( "Credits","credits")</script><script>if( localStorage.getItem("twine-autosave") ) {addOp( "Load game","loading") }</script> <script>addOp( "Start","introduction")</script>

<p>After half a minute of silence, she suddenly says, 'Yes? What?'</p> <p>She's amused when I explain that she had the same look the night I found her, when she almost couldn't say a word.</p> <p>'This place freaked me out,' she says. 'It's still freaking me out. That's why I came.'</p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p> <script>addShow( "She shouldn't keep coming, then.","mon not come", "I found it weird that she kept coming to a disturbing place.")</script><script>addShow( "Perhaps I can do a little something about that.","mon little something", "I felt things would not move forward if I didn't push them.")</script>

<p>She smiles and stretches backwards. 'To me this place is a damn museum. I love this weirdness.'</p> <p>I don't really understand. </p> <p>Araceli is undoubtedly smarter than me. She lives in a bigger place, she has some money, she's taller and fitter and hotter than me, she's older and way cooler.</p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p>

<p>She's probably right to be surprised. Why can't I just chill?</p> <p>'Stop the talk. Do something, Verónica. Entertain me.'</p> <p>There's only one thing.</p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p> <script>addShow( "Look at her sarcastically and refuse to do anything.","mon sarcasm refuse", "Being demanding was just fun for her. I didn't want to be her entertainer.")</script><script>addShow( "Kiss her.","mon kissed only once", "She wanted me to do something, and there was one thing I wanted to do. And yet...")</script>

<% if (_.contains(s.historylist,'mon ask strange')) { %><p>'You are strange enough for my taste,' she says.</p> <% }; %><% if (_.contains(s.historylist,'mon ask smart')) { %><p>'You are the smartest person I have met for a long time,' she says.</p> <% }; %><p>More kissing ensues. More than enough.</p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p> <script>addShow( "Enjoy this moment.","wed meet in village", "There was so much excitement with her. It made me believe anything was possible.")</script>

<p>'Seems like the owner has been bribing and corrupting everyone and their dog since long before I was born. He bribed one half of the town hall to get authorization to build this inside a national park. They recorded him offering a house at half price to the mayor. He has appealed one last time, we are just waiting for the tribunal to uphold the sentence and they'll come to demolish all this.'</p> <p>'You'll lose this job,' she says.</p> <p>'I'll cheer. That bastard owns us.'</p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p> <script>addShow( "Rant.","mon boss rant", "I couldn't contain myself.")</script>

<p>She shows no emotion. Perhaps she shows some signs of suppressing her emotions: turning her face away, raising a hand to touch her temple so I see even less of her. </p> <p>'I don't know,' she answers, and after another minute of silence and not letting me see her face, she adds: 'I can't tell if it's important for you. All these days you've been trying to say the things that you thought I would like, not the things that you would say. I know.'</p> <p>She's right.</p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p> <script>addShow( "Ask her to trust me now.","wed do something", "That started to feel like an end.")</script>

<p>'Let's deface a wall,' she says, and she shakes a paint spray can that I hadn't seen her pick. 'They won't know it happened during your shift. I came yesterday afternoon and I could have brought a whole orchestra to play a symphony. That watchman won't notice anything.'</p> <p>I realize I'm smiling, very, very slightly, but I'm sure she sees it. I make a serious face. I love it! But it will be very bad for me. </p> <p class='hid opt'>. </p> <script>addShow( "'Fuck you.'","wed deface why", "I rudely told her to stick her ideas in some very dark place.")</script><script>addShow( "'No.'","wed deface why", "I just said no. I didn't need to say anything else.")</script><script>addShow( "'Why would I do that?'","wed deface why", "I asked why.")</script>

<p><video style="position: fixed; top:0; right:0; min-width:100vw;min-height: 100vh;" id="bgvid" playsinline autoplay muted src="img/paint.webm" type="video/webm"></video></p> <script>clearBlock('oI f125 past')</script><div class='narration'><div class='active block oI f125 past' id='oI f125 past'><div class='block-content'> <p>A bizarre feeling: it feels almost like exhaustion, but we can't remember any reason to be exhausted. So we think that something must be wrong within us, because we are trained to think like that. </p> <p>She wrote this years later. It didn't mention me but, when I read it, I knew she was thinking of me.</p> </div></div></div> <script>addOp( "END","start")</script>