in the woods dark and deep I offer you eternal sleep

[aarnethompson]

Who: Alba, Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna, Bruce Wayne, Cliona Donovan, Data, Don Draper, Ilde Decima, Irene Adler, Jae-hyun Kim, Jaime Lannister, Kalinda Sharma, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent, Martel, Nuray Amedi, Penelope Lane, Odessa Wander, Pepper Potts, Rex Lewis, Seoraj, Shrieky, Sunny, Wolfgang Einhorn, Xas
What: Something bad is afoot, and you must help.
Where: Abrogate Green, Badside, Barrackham, Chnum, Echomire, Flag Hill, Gallmarch, Ketch Heath, Pelorus Fields, Raven's Gate, Sangwine, Serpolet, Sobek Croix, Stoneshell, and the northern woods
When: July 22nd to the 30th
Notes: People are slow right now and a few are on hiatus, so slow-tagging and back-tagging are totally fine. Please check the accompanying OOC post for info and to coordinate.
Warnings: Disturbing content, will include violence, choking, drowning, body horror, and animal death.

Strange events tend to go unnoticed in Baedal, compared to the much stranger things happening around them. People don't tend to be noticed when they go missing, either. The city takes these things in stride. After all, people get called back to their homeworld all the time, or they die. Everyone knows this.

Still, rumors start cropping up around the city about the sudden appearance of twelve identical towers positioned around the city like the face of a clock...

ALBA ♞ Cliona Donovan
DON DRAPER ♞ Pepper Potts, Kalinda Sharma
ILDE DECIMA ♞ Irene Adler, Marie-Sixtine St. Vincent
JAE-HYUN KIM ♞ Sunny
MARTEL ♞ Data, Jaime Lannister
NURAY AMEDI ♞ Alexia Swiftdawn, Anna Demirovna
ODESSA WANDER ♞ Rex Lewis
SEORAJ ♞ Bruce Wayne
SHRIEKY ♞ Xas
WOLFGANG EINHORN ♞ Penelope Lane

Comments

[inkdamage]

Glass slippers, really? Severus frowns, crouching down near her and inspecting - carefully. The evidence of her attempts to remove them are obvious, and he can only imagine how much it hurts. He only tugs on one once, gently, because if these things were going to come off with someone besides her trying, glass would pop away immediately. Nothing. So he tries again, and it's an awkward Wicked Witch of the West versus Dorothy's ruby slippers moment for all that happens. (Again, nothing.)

But...

From out of his pocket, he takes the diamond hammer, holding it up to her. "This came with the keys."

[whattigerscanchange]

Yes, Severus, really. Odessa's truly as thrilled about this scenario as can be expected.

She opens one eye as if to see exactly what it is that came with the keys, but it's on the side with the worst of her facial scarring. She at least gives the impression of peering cautiously or reluctantly before opening the eye that actually has sight. "A hammer?"

It doesn't take more than a split-second's thought before Odessa's nodding her head in a manner that further betrays both how shaken up she is and how much she's actually talking herself into the validity of the implied plan proposed here. "Do it."

[inkdamage]

Fairy tales in their original formats - dark, unhappy, twisted - are normal for Severus; the Wizarding World pulls few punches, in its literature (to say 'fiction' wouldn't be entirely accurate). But he still never pictured himself participating in one, and so this is... surreal. Even more surreal, perhaps, is the fact that he says: "Sorry," and for a moment looks as awkward as he sounds.

He doesn't actually want to sit here groping some woman's feet, all right, that's extremely weird and maybe he has a complex about touching people, which is not anyone's business.

But he does take her right foot, and tap the hammer against one side of the glass shoe. Nothing happens, but the sound it makes is more akin to finding a hollow in a wall versus an impenetrable force. Again, harder, and the glass cracks. It takes a few more applications and it's all shattering, splintering away - Severus brushes broken glass away and urges her to scoot over so she doesn't end up with glass shards embedded into her foot.