Reflections of the Heart?

Zora had come down to the community centre that evening because of - well, the rumours....rumours that had been going around about the party itself. She had been curious mostly. However, she was pretty sure now that curiosity had killed the cat in the end. Everything had been fine, the grass on the floor, the appearance of squirrels, the strange artefacts, the call of bells in the distance - all that had been fascinating, fun - she had been enjoying herself with everything - until the pool of water had appeared.

When she glanced down into the small pool that had appeared in the middle of the floor, the face staring back at her in the mirrored water was not her own, nor was it someone she had ever expected to see. And as Zora quietly listened to the chatter in the room of what others had seen, she started to feel extremely disconcerted and confused.

And so, when Jude asked Zora if she wanted to go out and get some fresh air, she had quickly agreed. Walking in relative silence, they finally came to a small cafe a few blocks away. There Zora suggested they sit out on the half empty patio - it was a night evening - where they each ordered something to drink.

@Romi

Thanking the waitress when she put their drinks in front of them - ice tea for Jude, a chilled glass of white wine for her. Taking a much-needed sip first of her wine, Zora considered Jude's question and didn't know the answer. She wasn't sure how to begin or even what to say, or if she wanted to say anything... saying things out loud made them real, and Zora wasn't too sure she wanted that - she liked living in the dark sometimes, especially where feelings were concerned.

"Maybe something else... for bit?" Zora suggested as she tried to set aside what she was feeling for the moment, and understand why the pool had shown her that particular person.

@Romi

"That's good, so basically you are all caught up..." Zora said distractedly as she sipped at her wine, half listening to Jude talk for a while while her mind kept wandering back to the pool and the reflection she had seen there.

"Did you... by any chance, look in the pool back there at the centre?" Zora asked Jude looking at him questioningly, not sure now whether she had actually seen him approach the mysterious pool of water.

@Romi

At Jude's words, Zora just nodded thoughtfully so he had looked in the pool. She now wondered who he had seen.

"And do you think that, well, it really shows the truth about who you are, could be, in love with?" Zora asked him with some uncertainty as she toyed with her glass absentmindedly when Jude said that he had, indeed, looked in the pool and seen something.

"Or do you think it's... maybe, it's just, I don't know...maybe, a hidden desire, possibly or suggestion instead?" Zora faltered here, she knew she wasn't making much sense, possibly because she was still trying to make sense of who she had seen earlier.

Zora mulled carefully over Jude's words. They made sense in a way, and at least, he hadn't said that he thought the pool was a clear reflection of things, that it showed you who you supposedly were in love or even infatuated with. For some reason, that idea upset her and did not bring her peace of mind.

However, the idea that the pool showed - or indicated something she had not accepted did not make it any easier, she still had major problems with the idea that she might have any kind of feelings for this person.

"Were you happy with what you saw reflected in the water?" Zora asked Jude.