Shrike's Heart (#3)

[idolpro]

The woman before you is beautiful—fair of features, with lovely golden skin and luxurious long black hair, petite. You have the immediate and distinct impression that she's just let go of your hand, and she steps back, and smiles.

It's not quite a happy smile.

"I'm sorry," she says. "There's just nothing I can do, as things are. But the way is there; it just needs to be lit."

You open your mouth—maybe to say something, or to express confusion—but you have to cough, and taste something metallic, spattering black blood onto the ground in front of you. Then you realize—blood seeps from opening wounds in your arms, your chest, your stomach, your face. It rims your eyes and trails from your nose and you feel like you're dissolving—

—and you fall through the ground like it's the surface of a lake, and go down, down, down.

> Wake Up

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Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[420blazeit]

[ she stands at attention alongside kohime in the off chance that one of these people tries something stupid, though... she kind of doubt that's going to happen, since it's a house full of civs and just a single giant prick. ]

[ what she doesn't expect is for all of them to just kind of... open the door and pour out to... thank them. what. she's so confused. she just stares at the people, mostly the dude, and then looks in the direction crow went. ]

...yeah, but you might want to, like, run or something, because I'm sure he'll be back. He was really dead set on burning this place to the ground, so if you stick around, then you're likely to get caught in his, ah, ..."fun". Anyway, uhm, you're welcome.

[ well, they should probably go... although she does want to poke her head inside the house to see if there's anything worth taking along. ]

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[handpuppets]

[ if you poke your head briefly inside the house, or try and squint at it, it's all dark inside since they haven't been keeping lights on, but it seems full of opulence that isn't present in the rest of this city. a lot of expensive, but otherwise frivolous objects. ]

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[420blazeit]

[ she'll just leave it and look to kohime and nemesis, because it's probably time to move along, as one does after preventing a psycho from setting a house of innocents on fire. ]

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[purrrnicious]

What?

[Don't look at her, she wanted to leave like 20 minutes ago.]

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[unbr8kable]

[Starts for the exit, then hesitates, turning back to the fancy man]

Hey, Prefect... This--

[and here she waves a hand to indicate the entire situation]

--pretty usual? With the whole 'take no prisoners, burn civvies alive" attitude?

Re: THE BATTLEFIELD

[handpuppets]

N-no! Or, you'd have to tell me. When he came to me the first time, I didn't think they were intending to... intending for all of this, or that Ryuken had accepted the aid of the Walker in Darkness. Otherwise I'd have been far away from here, promotions be damned!

[ he watches all of you, uneasily. ]