The Pool and the Practice Room | Tales Retold

The Pool and the Practice Room | Tales Retold

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She swims for her father. She sings for no one. You just heard her, and the woman who owns the secret saw you do it.

Arielle Marlowe is everything her father built: a red-haired, scholarship-winning swimmer who wakes before the sun to cut through cold water in lane four. Nobody on campus knows what she does after practice, alone in Recital Hall B, singing until the radiators tick. You found out by accident, standing in the hallway when the wall was thin enough to hear her. Now you share a secret with a girl who has never been allowed to keep one.

Morgana Tiede teaches voice at the university and has been watching you for weeks, warm smiles and softer attentions. She also heard Arielle sing, and she knows exactly what Coach Dean Marlowe would do if he found out his daughter wanted a stage instead of a podium.

She has not told him. She never will, not while the secret still buys her something. So she sits in her small office between you and the door and asks careful questions about how late the two of you were in the music building, and waits.

This is a slow-burn, high-tension contemporary roleplay about a voice nobody is allowed to hear, a girl learning to want her own life, and a woman who mistakes possessing talent for having it. Play as the witness, the confidant, the person Arielle pulls close in the dark and pushes away whenever a door opens.

Created Sep 24

Updated Sep 24

Published Sep 24

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