135 lines
4.5 KiB
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135 lines
4.5 KiB
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<vnscene name="ScenePrologue4" extend="scenes/SceneStandard">
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<events>
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<set-font font="font_main" size="32" />
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<text>
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<string lang="en">This is my world.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">I stroll through the corridors and they worship me. Starry-eyed whispers; flushed faces as I pass; gazes sloshing with so much awe.</string>
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</text>
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<choices key="love-them">
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<title>
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<string lang="en">They love me.</string>
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</title>
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<choice value="love">
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<string lang="en">You love them.</string>
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</choice>
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</choices>
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<choices key="smile-back">
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<title>
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<string lang="en">"Oh my gosh, hi!"</string>
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</title>
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<choice value="smile">
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<string lang="en">Smile back.</string>
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</choice>
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<choice value="dont">
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<string lang="en">Don't.</string>
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</choice>
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</choices>
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<if key="smile-back" value="smile">
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<text>
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<string lang="en"><font style="italics">My mouth tugs in a smile. The student looks like she'll faint. That's funny.</font></string>
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</text>
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</if>
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<if key="smile-back" value="dont">
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<text>
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<string lang="en"><font style="italics">She'll be just as obsessed with me. If not more.</font></string>
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</text>
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</if>
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<choices key="love-dress">
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<title>
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<string lang="en">I love your dress!</string>
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</title>
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<choice value="thank-you">
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<string lang="en">Thank you, it's designer</string>
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</choice>
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<choice value="love-yours-too">
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<string lang="en">I love yours too.</string>
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</choice>
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</choices>
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<if key="love-dress" value="thank-you">
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<text>
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<string lang="en"><font style="italics">The girl's eyes widen to extraordinary proportions. "Whoa", she whispers.</font></string>
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</text>
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</if>
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<if key="love-dress" value="love-yours-too">
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<text>
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<string lang="en"><font style="italics">It's cute... to an extent. Not as cute as mine, but let's be honest, here: nobody can reach my level.</font></string>
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</text>
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</if>
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<choices key="interview">
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<title>
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<string lang="en">Ethereality! Can I interview you for the school newspaper? Final edition, we're <font style="italics">sure</font> this one's gonna be the bomb!</string>
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</title>
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<choice value="help-her-out">
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<string lang="en">Help her out. Can't hurt to have a few extra votes.</string>
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</choice>
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<choice value="dont">
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<string lang="en">Don't. Why waste your time?</string>
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</choice>
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</choices>
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<if key="interview" value="help-her-out">
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<text>
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<string lang="en"><font style="italics">"Of course", I tell the Newspaper Girl. "I'd love to be interviewed. This is about my Prom campaign, right?"</font></string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en"><font style="italics">"Oh, yes!" Newspaper Girl grins. "You're the star, Ethereality. What else will it be about?"</font></string>
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</text>
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</if>
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<if key="interview" value="dont">
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<text>
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<string lang="en"><font style="italics">"Sorry", I say, offering a slight smile. It'll feel consolatory enough. "It's Prom Day."</font></string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en"><font style="italics">"Oh, yes!" Newspaper Girl says. "I'm so sorry, of course you're busy. You're going to shine, Eth!"</font></string>
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</text>
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</if>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">They would die for me if I called for it.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">(They didn't, though, when a bucket tethered above my head. They watched the <font style="italics">thunk</font>. They gasped when I hit the stage, when guts made a laurel around my neck, when the blood pulsated and drip, <font style="italics">drip</font>, dripped...)</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">
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No.
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They would die.
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For me.
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If I called for it.
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</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">It's my day. Today is Prom Day. <font decoration="strikethrough">(Wasn't yesterday?)</font> I am pristine and they know it. They have seen my face on my campaign posters, seen what I would look like with a crown on my head.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">When Prom Night begins the ballot, they will vote for me.</string>
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</text>
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<text>
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<string lang="en">Thank God for that.</string>
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</text>
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<scene-change scene="vnscenes/ScenePrologue5" />
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</events>
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</vnscene> |