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Post by Vyn on Mar 1, 2011 21:29:58 GMT -5
Kaden was torn between satisfaction and a sudden flush of horror when Suivus started to call out and cry. Wait. Wait. That wasn't what he wanted! She deserved to pay, yes, but...
"WAIT!" The creature was eating her and she was screaming dad.
Oh Suits.
"Wait! If you kill her she can't tell us how to fix this!" He rushed toward the blob, wings flared. "If she's poisoned them all we need to know how to fix it!"
He jerked around as he saw the Lowland feline, squawking briefly in surprise as he finally realized there were others. He shook himself in confusion and then frowned. "S-She's been poisoning them. Does somethin' horrible to 'em, makes 'em like that." He frowned in despair. "Tried to get more out of her. I'm sorry, she was so vague. Said it was just a joke."
His feathers were all fluffed up in frustration, splayed awkwardly. "Can you talk to it, Mister?"
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Post by Satra on Mar 1, 2011 21:55:32 GMT -5
Victor stared at the Bird as he rambled. Part of what he said made sense, but he was definitely leaving information out.
"Slow down there! Poisoning who? Who's 'them'?" He took a breathe, "Yes, I can talk to it. Anyone can... just sometimes it doesn't present the opportunity to," he said, thinking back on the hat shop. He turned back to Tamis.
"Tamis, please. Listen to him let her go." His head turned to look at the Tamis with the struggling midsection. "There are other people who need help. If you kill her, what she did might not be able to be reversed. Please, Tamis..." don't make me hurt you. I sympathize with you too much.
He turned back to the bird. "Please, explain more."
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Post by Vyn on Mar 1, 2011 22:25:19 GMT -5
It took Kaden a moment to realize he had, indeed, been rambling something terrible. He stamped a foot and clacked his beak in frustration before smoothing his feathers down and taking a breath. They didn't have time to be logic-ing and talking calmly.
"The Selkies are dying! Suivus poisoned them!" He flapped and pointed at the oozing 'Tamis' man. "Suivus is pouring that stuff in the water and it's killing them!"
When the man continued speaking with the monster, Kaden let out a relieved sigh. It was fairly obviously he had at least gotten the gist of what he'd been squawking about. His feathers fluffed up again.
"If you let her go! We might be able to help, or at least... fix this somehow. My friend's a Selkie, I don't want to see this happen to him!" Or, well, Eurwen's boyfriend. But he knew the guy well enough to not want him to ever suffer this fate!
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Post by Harpsdesire on Mar 1, 2011 22:31:27 GMT -5
As much as she really thought running was the most logical option in this situation, Kendra had to admit that Kaden was right. The inky thing wasn't really interested in anyone but Suvius, who seemed to be it's... daughter? How strange. The marten was yelling, people were running around and the ink-thing was groaning, and the world was all a little too out of control. It was all that dreadful Benyan woman's fault that frikken' monsters were swallowing people up! And she wanted help? Kendra might have helped her out a sense of duty if anyone else had taken the lead on that, but for a moment no one did. Then the monster engulfed Suvius completely. Fear and ineffective anger warred in Kendra's mind, and all she could do was let out a little squeak of distress.
Kaden and a strange looking lowlander were trying to reason with the monster. Well, chances were that weapons, even if they had them, wouldn't do much on a gloppy blob of ink, anyhow. "Show him the Ace pelt, Kaden." She said. It would explain things better and quicker than words.
Alicia, on the other hand, was no angry, not especially worried for the fate of the cards, but quite scared indeed both for her own skin and the fate of her warren and the assorted rabbits left behind. What if there were more of these things? The bush she was cowering under really wasn't much of a shelter at all... but there was something better in sight. It was a sort of little house on wheels that cards used to get around, and it looked as if it was probably empty. At any rate, a great number of cards had already piled out of it, and any one or two that was left inside was probably a lesser threat than the giant, black, card eating thing out here. The tree it had swallowed up was much too close for comfort.
The leveret broke from cover and made a sudden bunny-dash for the carriage. Once inside, she dove under the seat. Oh, yuck. The space under the bench was littered with dropped food bits, shed feathers, pencil stubs and other assorted leavings. She flicked a crumb off her paw in disgust. At least there was a pen with a generally sharpish-looking nib. In a real pinch she could at least... poke someone with it? Maybe not. Write her will, she supposed, if she had any ink. Or anything to will away. Or paper. Oh, damn.
She giggled in a slightly unbalanced way, giving in for a moment to a hysteria of stress.
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Post by Nathalia on Mar 1, 2011 23:21:57 GMT -5
((The monster turned slowly to regard the Feline with one eye, as it had when waiting for him to get into the carriage.
"Carrrrrnnnn't ssssstop." It whispered, shaking what could be construed as its head. Slowly, but surely, the writhing within it was slowing.
And the blob itself was...vanishing, evaporating, bit by bit.
"Diiiiddn't knoooowww sssshhhee wasssss mineeee.....wouldn't have lefffft..." It whispered to the Lowlander, shaking its great head and shuddering as it seemed to constrict.
Something inside crunched.
There was no more movement.
"Ssssuuuviussss...." It whispered, hitting Victor with a blast of sorrow, before crumpling in on itself and evaporating over the course of a minute.
Suvius was left in the center, covered in muck, her back and neck snapped cleanly, her mouth and eyes open in a silent, eternal scream.))
~Nathalia
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Post by Satra on Mar 1, 2011 23:38:35 GMT -5
His mind reeled, barely noticing the thing that sprinted into the carriage. It might hurt Tamis a bit, but he could use what was left of his Spade water to soften the body and pull her out. Anything. Anything. He thought of Ayden and the children in the carriage. Suits, what if they--?
"Tamis, you have to! Please," he whispered back, "I could just--" Then the crunch. Victor suddenly felt sick. He shut his mouth as his body lurched slightly, fighting back the urge. He shut his eyes and shook his head.
"Dammit, Tamis..." he said after a moment. He opened his now stinging eyes and looked back at the still, broken body that was slowly being revealed. He looked down and shook. It was only then did he finally notice his rot had been healed up. He touched it in disbelief and stared at the inky body melting into nothing before him. He gave a weak and strained smile.
"I guess I should thank you before I don't have a chance any more. Thank you," he pressed a paw against the purple-black skin. When he was gone, nothing more than a black puddle, Victor spoke again: "You're still a bastard."
Slowly, methodically, he started pulling off the vest destroyed with ink. The dried stuff pulled at his fur as he peeled it off.
"You said the stuff in the water only affects Selkies, right?"
After a day like this, he really needed a bath.
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Post by Nako on Mar 1, 2011 23:45:26 GMT -5
Brandy visibly flinched when he heard the crunch. He was sure that everyone knew what that sound had meant. He hadn't been privy to seeing too many dead bodies in his lifetime.. but that didn't mean he'd never seen one before. Suvius' visage was one of particular.. horror. That… thing had been her father? The Selkie she so hated? What a tangled web, indeed.
Perhaps it shouldn't have escalated to such a point, to where a hatred bubbled forth into an inky hatred that consumed and corrupted. It was all rather poetic, actually. In a terribly macabre sort of way. But what of the ink? Was it still in the water? Things may not be back to normal even though the creature had withered away.
Idly, he noticed the photo that he had been keeping. He had meant to give it back to Suvius, but… He stepped closer to the body, pulling the photo out of his bodice and looking down at it.
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Post by Harpsdesire on Mar 1, 2011 23:52:09 GMT -5
That crunch was... was sickening. Kendra instinctively though she had some idea of what it meant. Severed spinal cords, broken skull... nothing good for the Benyan who had been consumed. As the inky thing faded away, she felt her tense shoulders relax a little, anger floating away as fear abated.
"That was, erm, really something." She said under her breath, "Wow! She looked around at the aftermath of whatever-it-was that had just happened. "Kaden? I think we lost our rabbit." It seemed a trivial matter at such a moment, and her voice reflected that, a little disoriented and grasping on to one tiny peice of a nonsensical situation.
In the carriage, Alicia noticed suddenly that there were two small pairs of feet dangling near her face. Little cards? Ohhhhh so not good. Trapped, she had no choice but to try to make nice. "Don't be alarmed, I'll leave as soon as the action outside dies down..." She couldn't really see for sure, but that seemed to already be happening.
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