Fourth Horror: I don't want to go home

[promfromhell]

[Carrie, somehow managed to avoid getting any pranks pulled on her. For once in her life. She's very relieved because of that. She also found her rocking chair in the mail for her. Which was nice.

She was starting to get used to ...well her freedom in Mayfield. Momma wasn't here to tell her what to do, or to yell at her, or to make her pray. They weren't here to make her life miserable. She could ...be normal here. Wear normal clothes, do normal things and not be the freak.  It was a strange feeling she wasn't really sure what to do with yet.

A. Housemates can find her carrying a rocking chair up to her room, carefully.

B. She's outside for a walk. Today, is ...actually a pretty nice day. She's looking up at the sky for the moment and might walk into anyone walking down the sidewalk. 

C. The park. She's flexing her mind and lifting up a park bench. Standing off to the side and staring at it. Practise after all. Maybe if she practises she won't lose control when she gets angry.]

[Phone]

....I'm sorry to bother people ...again. But I was wondering. Is....changing your citizenship to a country...really just as easy as getting some papers? If...If I change it....I don't have to go back to America do I? .....Can you just leave like that? ...Not this place. I mean ...back home. Is it really that easy to leave?

Comments

[mounties]

Not at all. My house is always open.

[promfromhell]

Oh.

....I ...might do that ...then.

[That's normal right? She can do a normal visit.]

Thank you.

[mounties]

Any time, Carrie.

[And after a pause, Canada decides to be needlessly inspirational.] No matter how depressing or bleak things seem now, they get better, at least in some way. Trust me. Whatever's wrong, you'll find a way to make it better.

[promfromhell]

....that isn't always true.

Sometimes they just get worse.

[mounties]

But they can't get worse forever. At some point, they have to get better. It may just be a matter of perspective, but they will.

[promfromhell]

.....Does dying count as getting better?

[Because if not. Her story did not get better.]

[mounties]

[She hesitates a moment, before making a quiet, affirmative noise.]

It's up to you to decide that. Sometimes it does.

[promfromhell]

Oh..

Okay. I suppose things can get better then.

[mounties]

It's all a matter of perspective.