#listen I’m so amused by Oph and row going to see a show in Greek because they’re snobby friend wanted to go

[a-shakespearean-in-paris]

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thanks for the tag @galadrieljones! Thought I'd share a snippet from the infamous greece chapter of my original stuff that I've been working on. and when i say infamous I mean it's infamous to me and no one else.

Two weeks later they were in Athens.

            Rowan had never been away before. He was possessed with the need to see all, do all, and during the production of Oedipus at the remnants of the ancient theatre Charlie insisted they go to, he thought of possibilities he never experienced but were now impossible. Surely there was a life where his mother took him everywhere she promised to take him when he was a boy. There had to be another where he knew the language the actors on the stage spoke-sung as well as he knew Shakespearean, because in that life he knew his father.

The truth was Rowan wasn’t smart enough to appreciate this peek into his chosen art’s beginnings, the fact he didn't speak the language unimportant. So his mind drifted, thoughts without purpose but to only exist. He wanted to see the sea. He wanted to sail.

Eventually however, he became aware of the firm point of Ophelie’s finger jamming into his arm.

            “If you’re not going to say it i will,” she whispered before what he hoped was Oedipus leaving the stage to gouge his eyes out.

“Say what? Can you understand this?”

“Of course not. It’s all Greek to me.”

this is the funniest thing I have ever wrote please tell me you get it

I also did this not too long who and tagged some of y’all so feel free to ignore, but tagging @wintersongstress @verai-marcel @myreia and anyone else!