this is the time of night where the moonlight shines down and we can reveal who we truly are

[meanwhileback]

Who: Penelope Lane
What: A horrible accident, and its aftermath
Where: Chimer, about four blocks from Penelope and Ruby's apartment
Notes: If you'd like your character to come upon the scene and/or notice what happened, feel free to tag in! Obviously Penelope's too out of commission to do much interacting, though.
Warnings: Violence and fairly serious injury.

Chimer at night is dead space. Especially at this time of year, when it's cold and damp and windy and pitch-dark, there's only very rarely anyone outside walking a dog at most, and even then, they're hustling along, bundled head to toe, praying to any of the city's gods that will hear them to let their business be over with as soon as possible.

Which is why, as Penelope rushed home from a long night of putting in overtime at her studio, as she so often has been in the past month or two, she never saw it coming.

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Afterwards, the official report would state, and the media would report, that it was a carriage accident, a hit-and-run, most likely a runaway-horse situation that knocked her to the ground, rendering her unconscious, and caused some moderate injury. Anyone who knows the truth would know things were a little more fishy than that. A hit-and-run, for example, could conceivably cause the broken arm, ankle and various deep bruises and other small wounds, but likely in totally different areas, and they definitely wouldn't stop to deliberately pose the victim's body before fleeing the scene.

They certainly wouldn't leave a note claiming that the victim deserved what they got because they were a filthy witch who has been using black magic to taint their fair city, and that there would be more of the same coming to anyone else who practiced their corrupt manipulations.

But of course, none of that would make the newspapers. All they would say is that a local Chimer woman, a recent arrival who had rocketed to prosperity in a shockingly brief period of time after starting a thriving business, was involved in an accident early Sukkardi morning.

The papers would further report that as of press time, the woman has been confirmed to be in Fair condition.