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Hart watched the people carefully. She was really only here for the Lady, and didn't care too much about the people who emerged. Well, the people and one animal - must be a were, she thought dryly. Surely, the brain worms wouldn't bother with a standard animals and they did always go about in animal form at random. Hart pushed her silver headband back into place. It was strange to look down and see her own wizened hands, but there had been no point in masquerading as Temperance here. Plus, it had been strange to see such pale skin all the time - just another reminder of who she wasn't and could not be.
"Are there more people secreted away aside from the four most prominently missing?" She asked. Hart wondered if Silk hated her to send her here. Maybe. She enjoyed any chance to be near and useful to Lady Melany, but Silk herself had said fetches were more susceptible to the worm. And lo and behold, who was the only fetch here? Herself.
Actually, she needed to know. She turned to Melany and spoke sotto voce. "My Lady, do you suppose Silk dislikes me?" She would never have asked Melany as the Spinel Lady, but this version seemed more approachable, younger.
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Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 9:02 pm
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Lily was patient as the door opened, waiting behind the threshold as everyone stepped through. She nodded her head once at Julian, then looked curiously beyond at the others present. She snaked her way between sets of legs and into an empty space in the hallway behind the group where she had room to change back into a body that had a voice.
"That's pretty metal," Lily commented dryly, rolling her head from one shoulder to the other. "I'm a big fan of keeping my insides on the inside, so, uhh...thanks for that, I guess." Idly she rubbed at her wrists, glancing down the hallway where there was presumably a brutally dissecting tick monster.
"So how do we fight the yeerk thing?" She asked the rescue gang, biting her lip. "If I'd have known this was going down, I would have brought some bug spray or whatever."
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Posted: Tue May 23, 2017 10:15 am
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"So we gotta grab people who won't be willing to leave, talk them out or knock them out, drag them down here, and then you guys are gonna do some...magic worm removal?" Lily's nose scrunched up, and she crossed her arms. She looked at Julian, then Melany and the strange corpse-person, and then back at Julian, her gaze cautious and critical. After a pause, she let out a low hum of disapproval, shaking her head.
"Yeah, I guess I can do that," Lily sighed, running a hand through her bangs. "Does Mom know you're on some kind of crazy worm hunt?" She wasn't sure what kind of help Eve might have been on such an effort, given that she had no powers currently and was absorbed in her research, but the thought of calling in some pack backup helped make what Lily was about to do easier to swallow. She'd taken people down for their own good once before, what was this but a repeat performance?
Still, Lily frowned as she reached down to tighten the laces in her boots. Of course it would come to fighting.
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 1:45 pm
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 7:19 pm
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Julian scrunched his brow at Lily in a way that communicated the family resemblance before putting the pieces together and saying, "You mean Eve?" His aunt had made references to being the pack mother before, but hadn't realized how literal she was being. "No. I'm sure she'll take it over me getting stabbed by a fetch when I tell her, though."
Looking to Erin and Theo, he continued, "So far my idea is go up in teams of two. And come back down with the thralls in the elevator. Since that person's still not awake," he gestured to Kim, "I can tag along after we've converted the basement for sterile technique and s**t." Julian didn't know what the infection risk was in other ashdown, but he also didn't want to ******** find out. He was already dealing with one magical infection.
"Two of the thralls are named Zac Bantock and Ashton Carver," he said. "If any of you know either of them, that kind of qualifies you to help them out. In addition..."
There was a bluejay perched on his shoulder, though he looked like he would rather be elsewhere.
"We're pretty sure this bird is a warg familiar who wants to help his partner. Someone should take him along."
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 7:42 pm
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Lily returned to her human form and Hart gave her a quick double-take, pale eyes widening. It made sense that she'd be here - she'd been so worried over Ashton, of course. There were a few people she did not know and, of course, Julian - who should really know that not every fetch stabbed as a means to their end. Was trading trading a fetch stabbing for a thrall stabbing any better? After a moment, she spoke up.
"I know both Ashton and Zac - neither of them are a warg, though. And I should not leave." Hart tapped her lips thoughtfully, sky blue nails gleaming and chip-free. She was here to be wherever the Lady was, so... For now, she was content to watch Lily out of the corner of her eye. Perhaps something could come of this.
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Posted: Wed May 24, 2017 10:02 pm
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"Yeah, I guess she's not actually your mom or whatever," Lily shrugged, finishing the double knot on her laces. "She'd want to know either way."
And then Julian was shooting off names, and Lily froze. For once, her expression did change, and she glanced up from her dutiful shoe-tying with a sudden alertness to the way she watched Julian. "Yeah, me too," she nodded, her brows knotted into a look of displeasure as she stood. "Ashton went missing a while ago. A whole group of people did. There was a thing about it in the email group." She ached at the idea of Shun and America and Zac all being kidnapped by some weird tick thing, but it didn't rattle in her bones the way Ashton did, the absence of pack almost as palpable a feeling as its presence.
"America's got a bird," she answered the unspoken question, glancing from Julian to down the hall. She crossed her arms to keep herself from fidgeting, but one of her legs began tapping nevertheless. "Where do we need to go?"
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