August 22, 1919
I think my father has contracted a mild form of lunacy. When I informed him that I have been spending an (admittedly scandalous) amount of time with Absalom, he didn’t raise a fuss. It cannot deny that he turned a sickly sort of pale, as if all the blood had been drained from him, but he did not protest. ‘That’s nice, Julianna,’ was all he had to say in the matter.
‘That’s nice, Julianna!’
What am I even to think of that? It seems as if this rivalry with the Harts has been wildly overblown.
It is possible that his mayoral candidacy has him somewhat distracted with matters more important than his daughter’s casual consort with a Hart man.
Oh well, I will not prod a reaction from him. I’d rather spend the time with Absalom.
Julianna smirked as he made a mess of himself with the whisky, it was a small victory since he was wholly unperturbed by her slamming things. That victory he’d given to the hinges of the piano cover. Maybe it was the whisky that was making him so unmovable. Fine. She had other tricks up her sleeve.
She was forced to move when he lifted the bench. She huffed again, not that he could hear. She considered just making herself visible to him. She crossed her arms again and watched as he rifled through the music she had stashed there. Materializing herself was usually something she saved for last. A grand finale if you will.
He was moving towards her portrait, so she moved with him. She stood next to him, close but not quite touching. Not that he would have felt her in this form. Julianna looked up at him, continuing to observe his profile. Something about the shape of his nose and the curve of his mouth was familiar to her, but she couldn’t quite place it. She looked up at her own visage. The paint was still as vibrant as it had been a hundred years ago. In it, she was wearing her favorite yellow lawn dress; spun silk and handwoven lace. He was introducing himself to her - to her painting.
Hart.
All at once a rage seemed to boil up in her. Her own hand lifted to the ugly purple and yellow bruises that decorated her throat like a macabre necklace, as his own lifted to touch the dusty frame of her portrait.
A gust of cold air. The drapes across the windows fluttered. Julianna grabbed his forearm to wrench his hand away for the painting. She would not suffer another Hart in her home. Not after the last.
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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