@Juju
There's very little to do at this point except for believe that Alba will manage to get them inside. Now, with the effects of Reverie overlooking her surroundings, she's not even confident that she'll see the Sweepers coming. She's seen them before, with those smoothies of human blood...
@Juju @November Witch
Cal blinks twice at Lupine's insistence that 'a little bit of White' would fix her up, but there's much bigger fish to fry in the moment than trying to parse together what the woman is talking about. The sprint back to Little Star is a hurried one, but it doesn't make...
@Juju @November Witch
There's a moment of pause as Cal regards Lupine with the bad news. It's a quick pass before feet are moving, and it's even quicker before they realize that Alba's going to slow them down to some degree. Cal mumbles a curse under her breath as Lupine cries out to Doctor...
@Juju @November Witch
"Huh?" The little girl stares up the dug-in as Alba exits, terror and confusion and betrayal in her eyes. "B-But I thought, Miss Doctor, we were gonna-" She swallows nervously, looks to her Mother, and shakes her head nervously. "Mama, we're gonna take you... Uh...!" She...
@November Witch @Juju @Euclid Leaf
When Alba starts to slither her way in that horrid little den, she watches her use her E.G.O. to stretch out arms for emergency escapes. Cal keeps herself close and readies a hand to pull, if it becomes completely necessary, and keeping the light from her eye...
@Euclid Leaf @Juju @November Witch
The trip through the backstreets is a great reminder of how bad things can be even when they seem good. She sighs after some half hour of walking, at the least glad that they don’t have to worry about any Rats getting n their way on the way. Whereas someone...
It was... Almost odd. She'd spoken when necessary to Alba since the recent recruitment with Wallflower, but it wasn't like they'd talked on anything of import, and Alba wasn't exactly one to shoot the breeze. It was, in a lot of ways, easy to forget that some of their members were capable of...
@ERode @Juju @November Witch @Euclid Leaf
The last thing (well, okay, maybe not the last thing) someone would expect a young girl like this to do when getting at least partially what they wanted, that being shelter and a night's rest, was for them to brandish their newly gifted weapon at those...
There’s a lot of layers to how she felt about everything that happened in K. Corp. Her augmentations were an affront to who she was and who she used to be, when she belonged to a small village that valued the soul and sense of self. But nowadays, they made her into a woman that could fight and...
She only gave Zi Hua a roll of her eyes as he tried to excuse his actions against the Middle. It was the dumbest damned thing to do, and she assumed Zi Hua knew that, but he was just that risk-prone that he didn't give a damn in the slightest. God watches out for fools, she reminds herself, so...
It was, in some ways, akin to watching a car crash in slow motion. From the very instant the Big Sister sat down to the end of it, Calendula was only able to stare and watch. The action was close enough that it was mostly viewable even with the fog, at least until Zi Hua's body was flung like a...
Lupine took conversation, even after a near death experience for all of them, like shooting the breeze with an acquaintance, she learned. It was probably just who she was, and even Cal could put together that Lupine… Saw the world differently than most, even if she wasn’t sure exactly how...
@Juju
City Streets
So much happened, even just after they had jumped up the way into the apartment buildings. She grit her teeth as the others made the leap up, but in due time, the VIP and all the other Wallflowers that had been along for this retreat had made their way up to safety. Though...
It gets worse again, for her, and for all the Wallflowers, as some strange, smoky abominations make themselves known. Beasts commanded by their tamers, ones that are difficult to discern as anything beyond a threat. Calendula isn't blessed with the sight of them, at least not clearly. They mix...
Someone else might have eased off the focus and fear when the first car drilled through the floors above them and into the ceiling. Might have breathed a sigh of relief and gone 'phew, it's over' or 'thank god, we've got time to move', but Calendula knew better than to breathe that sigh of...
While she wasn't a strategist, tactician, or anything close, there was one part of this cafe-wide brawl that didn't rub the right way with her. Rats were never this brave, especially in the face of a Fixer Office that clearly had a significant gap in skill, ability, and arms compared to the...