Intro post!

[weatherforecast]

WHO: Pepa Madrigal
WHERE: Labyrinth and then the city
WHEN: April 16th
WHAT: Another Madrigal appears!
WARNINGS: n/a




The Labyrinth:

[Pepa does not understand what's going on. The last thing she remembers is being surrounded by her family. Happy. Safe

And now she was huddled in an unfamiliar building while a hurricane raged outside the doors. She assumes it's her doing. The weather usually is. So she's frantically petting her hair as she murmurs to herself.]

Clear skies... clear skies... clear skies...

[Was her family here somewhere? She had to get this under control and find them.]


The City:

[Maybe someone finds her and helps her out. Or maybe she finally plucks up the courage to brave the hurricane and escape on her own looking for her family. Either way, Pepa is in the city now. With a phone and some instructions.

Soaking wet from a hurricane, shaken up from her ordeal and very lost.]

What is going on??

Comments

City | im ready.

[escuchando]

Mama?

[Dolores is not typically demonstrative, save for when she's finally reached the end of her rope, but oh it has been hard without either of her parents here. Even with Camilo and the rest of the family around it hasn't been the same. And she hadn't realised just how much she would miss them until she couldn't just go and find them whenever she wanted to.

So when she sees the unmistakable form of her mother, soaking wet and shaken and clearly newly arrived through some kind of labyrinth, she runs straight to her and throws her arms around her shoulders, bursting immediately into bittersweet tears.]

Mama!

Re: City | im ready.

[weatherforecast]

Dolores!

[She is relieved to see one of her children and hugs her tightly back. Although she still doesn't know what's going on, het focus shifts from herself to her daughter.]

Are you okay? Were you hurt?

[escuchando]

[With how tightly Dolores squeezes her arms around her mother she could be forgiven for thinking that she's trying to make sure she doesn't float away somehow. Meanwhile Dolores, suddenly embarrassed by her tears but lacking the capacity to stop them, swallows several times in an effort to regain control of herself.]

I'm fine, mama. [She pulls back just enough to see Pepa's face, managing a wobbly smile.]

I just missed you so much.

[Oh, there is going to be a lot to tell her...]

[weatherforecast]

[Pepa smoothes her daughter's hair, hands fluttering nervously. Just double-checking that she's okay. She notes, relieved, that Dolores is dry. So not caught up in that horrible hurricane.]

I was so worried. I thought you were all trapped in that awful place too. Have you seen anyone else? Your brothers? Your father? We have to find everyone...

[escuchando]

Papi isn't here. [And what she wouldn't do for his calming influence right now, because her mother was not likely to take the state of things very well and even less so when she learned about Antonio. That is... not a conversation that Dolores is willing to have when Pepa is still soaking wet and scared, so she tucks it away into the back of her mind and forces a smile.]

But don't worry, I know where everyone is. [Ah, Camilo was always better at this than her.] They're all at the house, so we should go there, okay? I'll tell you as much as I can when you're dried off.

[weatherforecast]

Not here? Then he might be back in that place where I was before. But I don't know how to get back. That boy in the armor lead me out.

[But the house. Their Casita...]

We should regroup and find out what to do next. Then we can figure out how to find your Papi.

[escuchando]

[She presses her lips together for a moment. This is going to take some explaining, but impressing on her mother that her husband isn't here isn't going to be of any use right now.

It's not going to get either of them anywhere if Pepa is just panicking.]

I'll take you home. There's a lot to explain, and some of it might be hard to understand. But... I've been here for a couple of months now.