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You get a lick of nerves at the prospect of being seen by Sulphreme - if it is him out front of the house as you fear - but when you lean on your side and curl up length-wise across the bench and close tight the wooden shutters on both sides in a bid to make yourself as hard to see as you can, you find yourself feeling better about your prospects. And when the stage continues on without stopping in the front of the yard, or even having a question shouted in passing at it, you allow yourself a shuddering sigh, stress whistling out of you like steam from a kettle. You did it. You - a thief - where arm in arm with a Thief-Taker, no, a <span class="mu-s">Master</span> Thief Taker, and you managed a clean break. Or at least, clean so far. Still, you are relieved enough to melt, and as you sit yourself up on the bench you might as well have - corset or no. Its the cushions; honestly, you should ask Nasturtium where he had them made. Maybe they make pillows ...
Blearily, you open your eyes - only to realize with a start that you don't remember closing them. Oh, Maker's Mercy! Did you actually <span class="mu-i">fall asleep?!</span> Panicking, you check the bundle under your seat ... and find it seemingly undisturbed. You calm down marginally, just long enough to realize that the stage is not moving - and that your Hide-Eyes Scarification Glyph is trembling and twitching, but otherwise as cold as it has been all day. Maker's Mercy, Maker's Mercy, oh Maker's Mercy, you - you must have rolled over in your sleep and pushed through the envelope of the cast. Desperately looking to get off of the back foot, you do your best to Reach into the Glyph and assume direct control of the cast to get you out of this halting stutter. You aren't able to Reach, but before you can completely lose your head, the stutter slips away on its own, and you are about to throttle the Glyph as wide open as you can ... when it occurs to you that if you cannot even manage to Reach into yourself, you probably aren't in a state to manually control Glyphs like this. Things can go wrong doing that, and when the Glyph is etched into your subdermis, you are just along for the ride. On the other hand, manual control of the Glyph could get it running in a heartbeat or two, as opposed to the two minutes plus that it would take if you just did it properly. Passively, that is. Passively. Can you wait that long? What is even happening here?
You can hear voices outside, distantly - and other harder to place noises besides. Have you already arrived at the Cancer House? Have you been stopped on the street? You cannot see much of anything with the shutters done up, but you are loathe to open them, for fear that someone is standing right outside - or may be shortly.
