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05/19/2005 Entry: "Thought Records of Elena, Lady Nox: Madness"

When all the world seems lunatic, who knows where Madness lies?

--Don Miguel de Cervantes

I don't think I'll ever forget that moment, standing there near the entryway.

It's not like my world hadn't been turned upside down already. I mean, one moment you're a mortal, innocent and ignorant, with not even the slightest conception of the deeper nature of Reality, and then, the force of worlds slams into you, grabs your heart right out of your chest, and returns it altered beyond recognition. And you are no longer mortal, anymore. Or ignorant. Or innocent. You are Noble, and you are forever changed.

After that sort of transformation, very few things disturb you, anymore. Not that you don't see some pretty unusual shit, wonderful and cruel and strange, but most of the time, you deal. This though, this moment, was pretty nearly disturbing enough to matter.

All along, we'd heard rumors. The old Madness, Rodrigo, was dead, his heart stolen and consumed by someone using the Redtooth Rite, and the new Madness, we'd been getting hints of, was doing some inexplicable stuff. What caught our attention, of course, was the timing. Rodrigo had apparently met his fate about the same time as we were meeting ours. Our predecessors annihilated, our Lord attacked and wounded, and this other Noble--whom we didn't know, killed, all in the same time period. Was there a connection? We had no idea. And then the new Madness showed up on our doorstep.

At our Banquet. Which Abbie proposed, and Von Bek coopted for his own purposes. We had worked very hard to get things right, insofar as they could be "right". Granted, Banquets like that don't happen very often, so there's not much in the way of ettiquette. Four brand new Nobles, with barely a clue of what we were doing, or how, or what the impact would be. Four Nobles trying to make friends and influence people, and come out of the night with a handful of alliances, or at least some neutrals. And as few enemies as possible, thank you very much.

And then Madness had to show up. Twice. Once in the company of her former Familia, once in the company of, well, of their polar opposite. And there I was, trying desperately to keep my jaw from hitting the floor, with a mental wail of Ohshitohshitohshitohshit... beginning to sound in my head, trying with all my might not to let my confusion show.

Oh, yes, I remember that so very well.

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Until next even, good dreaming be unto ye all.

Elena Hernandez, Lady Nox
Marchessa of Night
Viscountess of Dreams

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