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"Beauty" (no ships)💀

It was early in the morning, Pierro called for the harbingers as for the Tsaritsa's request for them work on trust.

(Timeline: After Fontaine and Childe has rejoined)

Arlecchino sat tall in her chair, meanwhile Childe who was beside The Knave was an absolute shit. He was loud, and giving Arlecchino a headache.

"Do you ever shut up?!" Arlecchino said, absolutely annoyed past belief, even losing her calm, collected composure that she's known to keep.

Childe Immediately took the warning and sat up right and quietly.

"Good. I'm by no means going to hurt someone here, but if you do manage to annoy me to that point again, I'm going to make you sleep in thr fucking hole." The Knave's voice was cold and spiteful as she walked past Childe.

For context; the hole is a large hole 8x8 dug into thr ground, its deep so one can only get out with help of another person. It's often full of snakes, scorpions or even in some cases rats. Arlecchino often puts people eho piss her off in the hole as a torture method. If she puts one of her children in the hole it's because it was their chore to clean it, so she stays near to help the child out of the hole when they are done cleaning.

Meanwhile with The Damselette she was sitting far off from others, singing a melody, but not a cutesy happy one, it was one that brought unease to those who didn't understand the 3rd Harbinger.

The Marionette was also far off but she was working on a puppet, one that had been asked for by Lyney, her desired to use a puppet for a magic show and Sandrone was the only person who had the handiwork for puppet making; at least the doll-kind, not the slave kind of puppet she Shogun is to Ei.

The Knave returned with a baby in her arms, another child she found in the snow of Shneznaya, she believed that the mother had passed away due to birth complications, mainly because thr baby was with a dead body attached to the umbilical cord.

Bring the owner to the House of Hearth Arlecchino was most fit to care for the baby, so she took the responsibility on.

It amazed her comrades on how intuitive and gentle she was to a child versus her comrade Childe. The most obvious explanation is that Childe had always pissed The Knave off, and which he did.

Pierro then entered the room, and all the harbingers moved to the table for meetings.

"As requested by the Tsaritsa, We are under the assignments to work on trust with one another. So, girls, you can be a trio and then boys we are teams of three." Pierro insisted on the teams having people who are compatible with one another so fewer arguments break out.

Teams:
Columbina/The Damselette, Arlecchino/The Knave, Sandrone/The Marionette

Dottore/The Doctor, Pantalone/The Regator, Tartaglia/Childe

Pierro/The Jester , Pulcinella/The Rooster, Capitano/The Captain

Of The 3 teams the Harbingers were supposed to create a puzzle over the hole.
(A glass bridge from squid games like shit)

Arlecchino and Columbina were both the cleaver analytical ones, Sandrone was the one setting up the stage for the challenge for her teammates.

Example of the path designs, green are safe, the thing is the boards are wood and all white, the red are so thin it cannot hold more than 2 pounds and all the harbingers were grown ass adults at 120+ pounds
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Columbina had a trick, only the Tsarista knew the path so she'd have to judge this game. 3 paths were the same, but one path for each team.

"Go"

Childe, Pulcinella, and Arlecchino went first up to cross, Arlecchino passed first, now the board was reset on a different pattern.

Since The two men failed they had to retry.

It kept going til Columbina, Dottore and Capitino were all left.

Columbina took middle.
Correct
Left
Correct
Forward
Correct
Middle
Correct
Right
Correct.

She passed faster, she was using her mind to envision the possibility. And finally crossed. The other harbingers behind her.

"This was to help you trust in your teammate's personal skills." The Tsaritsa said loudly to make sure she was heard. Then she left.