#((and for a moment nicholas has a flash of recognition: he doesn't know WHERE he's seen this strange man before))

[theheadlessgroom]

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“Not I,” he chuckled-the idea of actually being with Emily had long seemed like a pipe dream, some sort of fantastical notion that he could only dream about. He would have to contend with daydreams, never once imagining that, one day, they would be courting, even if it was in secret. He certainly never imagined that Emily reciprocated his feelings, and had long thought he’d only have to dream that she did. Now, here she was, in his arms, dancing joyfully with him around the living room.

“But surely someone did,” he added-surely someone out there had to have been pulling the strings of fate that brought them together the way they did. His father used to tell him stories of Aengus Óg, the Celtic god who could invoke love in others, and whose head was always encircled by four small birds-they always looked like doves to Randall, personally, in all the illustrations that he’d seen, as he explained to Emily as they danced.

“Did you see any doves the day you came to the haberdashery?” he asked her with a small smile-perhaps, if so, it could be taken as a sign that Aengus Óg was at work. It was a little bit of a silly notion, true, but one that still made Randall smile boyishly, wanting to entertain the idea.

#((I LOVE THAT IDEA! the idea of emily dying of a broken heart is perfectly poetic and tragic)) #((and it deprives nicholas of his victory! even though as you said he got randall out of the picture but he still didn't get the fortune!)) #((and you KNOW randall would absolutely chase him off; he IMMEDIATELY recognizes him as the reincarnation of his murderer)) #((who is now trying to get in the way of randall reuniting with the woman he loves!)) #((maybe while randall is in his guise as a mortal man he and emily run across nicholas)) #((and for a moment nicholas has a flash of recognition: he doesn't know WHERE he's seen this strange man before)) #((he just feels as though he recognizes him on some level-and that the sight of him and emily together gets his blood boiling!)) #((but he won't get the chance to do anything about it because somehow randall will chase him off-just as he did in 'beauty'!)) #outofhatboxes #beatingheart-bride #V:New Orleansian Holiday