[open] The Lovers

[butterflyaffect]

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One of the doors in the Velvet Room opened- and a woman entered, shaking rain out of her hair as she did so.

"I've returned. My apologies for needing to step out, I-"

Renée froze. Glanced around. This... was not the Velvet Room. Not the one she'd known, at any rate.

Her father was there- sitting, as ever, behind her desk, but...

She turned back to the door she'd come through, innocently closed behind her. Pulled it open, expecting to see Pride- but... no. She recognized the environs, knew the trappings of Paulownia Mall, but that wasn't what she'd come from. Other doors were checked, revealing- Shibuya, the exit in Inaba's Shopping District, and when she cast her senses outwards, there was-

Tartarus? The TV world- Mementos was most alarming of all, and she turned back to the desk, ready to- do what, exactly, she didn't know, but 'Igor' raised a hand, speaking not with the voice of the Usurper- but the more familar, warm tones she'd come to expect.

"I assure you, there's nothing to harm you, here. Welcome back, my dear. Perhaps I should explain..."



And so he explained.

And so she put her face in her hands, and made a noise that was not quite a death rattle, but certainly seemed to be similar.

"I... am going to kill him. I'm going to do it. I'm going to be the first one of us to actually strangle a Wild Card- how do you screw up entering the Velvet Room- it's fine. It's fine? It's fine. I'll be right back, and then we're going to fix this, and everything will be fine."