S-TWC-004
St. Valentine's Ledger
Patron: Nickels Costigan
Date: Aug 6th, 1923 – Gold Coast District
Location: St. Valentine's (Dressing Room #3)
Proprietor: Father Voss
Nickels,
I read what you wrote.
Sometimes it helps to set the pain down, even if only on paper. A ledger won’t forgive, but it will remember. And sometimes, remembering is all the absolution we get.
You did mess up.
Bad.
The kind of bad that gets written in red ink and whispered in dead tongues. You made some truly sour deals. And for what? ████? █████? Short sighted concerns of an Earthly existence. Temptations of ██████ and █████████. Maybe it was something you felt you had to do to carry on your ███████████’s legacy. Or perhaps you really did it all just for the love of a song.
But let me say this:
You are not the first man to damn himself in the pursuit of music. And you won’t be the last.
This… lost city of the █████, I don’t know how to stop it either. Not yet. But I know people down in █████████ who might. Old families. ████████████. Folks who remember what came before the gates ever opened, and what slipped through when they did.
They won't take kindly to a singer with sin on his boots. To them you would certainly be █████. But they believe in second chances, for the most part. More than most churches do these days, in any case.
We'll need to go to the █████. Find the █████████ matron in ██████████████████. She owes me a favor, and she can try to—well, I don't exactly know. If I were a hopeful man, I would say that she could cut ties with your horrid master and this mess would all go away. But it is rarely that simple. Moreover, your master would not take kindly to such an affront. We need to play this smart. And ██████ knows how to play things smart.
I don’t sugar-coat, son. You are bleeding from a wound you carved yourself. But wounds can heal. ████████████.
That voice of yours can still do good. It can still call something better into being. But only if you stop running.
Face the music.
We all hear it, eventually, after all.
Unsmudge the Ledger
"Left of Washington: ROADS."
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