WeepingWisteria

Onni nodded. "Of course." Ey knocked on the front doot. A man with deep wrinkles on his forehead opened the door. He looked clearly unhappy. "What? What do you want?"

Onni approached the door of the house on the hill. "Alright, we're here." Ey swallowed nervously. "Let's see how well it goes."

Onni nodded. "That sounds... nice. Maybe we'll leave everything behind and find something new. Maria might think we died."

"It would be. Maybe, for once, we don't have to worry about it going wrong. We just get a dead man to forgive someone, and we're okay." Onni laced eir ...

Onni laughed. "Good. At least Mia taught us one thing." Ey started walking towards the house. "This is pretty easy so far. I'm wondering when the ball's going to drop."

"Damn, you ruin all of my plans." Onni smiled at Sylvie and pointed at a hill in the distance. "What do you want to bet that's Phillip's house?'

Ki shook their head. "It's like swimming against a current." Not that they had much experience with swimming or currents. But, they once watch a guard attempt to cross a ...

Onni scratched eir head in pure confusion. "How did that turn out so perfectly?" Ey shook eir head. "Whatever. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." Ey blinked. "Or, ...

"Listen! If Brian just apologized, Phillip would leave his home once in a while." The washboard woman sighed. "I believe it could happen." The laundry line woman shook her head. ...

Onni nodded, eyes wide with surprise. Another woman, this one hanging white clothes on a laundry line, scoffed. "You and that Phillip. When are you going to see he's never ...

Onni put eir hands in eir pockets and leaned against a wall beside them, carefully keeping eir eyes trained on the sky. One of the women, who seemed to be ...

Onni shrugged. "It doesn't hurt to try."

Onni gestured to a group of whispering elderly women. "Do you think they're gossiping? Or is that too obvious?"

Onni shrugged. "We can try. Simply walk and observe."

"Well, there's more people. Maybe one of them will stop speaking in riddles." Onni scowled at the sight of all of the people. "But that means talking to them."