[Sodium_noir] Hell is Other People - Aurora

[Jennie Teakle]

Sinclair Party
1 - 3am

Aurora, Eva Harrington-Smythe


>> Mrs Harrington abruptly snaps open her evening bag, fishes inside  
>> and draws
>> out a card. She hands it to Aurora. It is beautifully engraved in  
>> curling
>> deco script - Eva Harrington-Smythe, President of the Harrington  
>> Charity
>> Trust.
>>
>> "In case you or your friend should find other items left behind  
>> from an age
>> all but dead," she says.
>
> [Aurora]
> She smiles.
>
> "Thank you," and admires the script on the business card.  "Thank you
> very much."
>
> She too opens her bag and slips it into her coin pouch.

[Eva]
Eva Harrington smiles thinly. "You're welcome, my dear."

She turns to the towering chauffeur, Lloyd and for the first time,  
she looks very frail. The burly guy offers her his arm which she  
takes, leaning on it noticeably.

"Au revoir. Perhaps adieu," says the elderly socialite. She begins,  
with Lloyd's assistance, to move away from Aurora and toward the  
exit. She pauses though, on her way past, turns back to look directly  
into the face of the autumn-haired girl in the vintage flapper's frock.

"That dress was originally made for Louise Brooks, you know," says  
Eva dreamily. "Except she never collected it from Worth's Atelier in  
Paris. It travelled to the States via an American tourist's Between  
Wars European tour; was sold after the Wall Street Crash; then bought  
from a classy vintage store not long before Pearl Harbour, for a  
movie obsessed Pandora who thought Louise Brooks was the perfect role  
model. Then, who knows?  Forgotten in a basement for decades? Now  
it's yours. Be careful. It's doesn't have a happy history. Jinxed?"  
The old lady muses, dryly sardonic. "But who believes in all that  
supernatural nonsense these days?"

Eva lifts one hand, still delicate despite the time-withering, and  
waves a tiny, fingertips-only goodnight. Then she allows the resolute  
Lloyd to firmly shepherd her toward the exit and her waiting Lincoln.


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