the process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination

[amourpropre]

Who: Lucius Malfoy (Sr), Cindy and Blink
What: A journey to the fringes of reality for fun and profit. The second trip of others.
Where: The outskirts of Baedal, i.e., the fog.
When: Shundi morning.

They are far out enough, now, and the thick dense fog obscures their surroundings.

That said, there could be nothing to obscure, and there is that sense that although the fog acts as a veil, Lucius would not place money on the idea it hides anything at all beyond its legendary monsters and treasures. They've driven out through farmland until the encroaching mist swallowed the car, a thing Lucius hired with the down payment earned from Snape with the keys tossed to someone capable, and at the sight of some shape made blurred and indefinite, they'd come to a halt. Now, Lucius is (quite happily) out of the vehicle and leaving the door open, his wand out and shining a somewhat useless illumination charm at the end of it, the light doing very little to penetrate the thick fog that presses in from all sides.

Regardless, he points it to the figure. It's an animal of some kind, quite dead, as made evident by the jagged row of exposed ribcage pointing for the hidden sky. It stinks of ruined meat, with a smear on the road where its innards used to be before scavengers-- or indeed, predators-- consumed it. It's an unnatural thing, a six-legged, furred beast with its neck broken and bent, eyes picked clean and fur gone grey. Horns, silvery, wind in spirals from its head, one of them broken perhaps from age or conflict.

"Someone's done the task for us," he notes, just loud enough to be heard, his voice almost tinny in the strange atmosphere.



[ OOC: ONE OF YOU can have driven the car, Lucius cannot. :( ]

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[fuckyouboots.livejournal.com]

These keys were tossed to Cindy, who didn't bother to ask if the purple girl could or even wanted to drive. Honestly, the less she knows about these people, the least likely she is to feel guilty when they get eaten by some fog creature and she doesn't. Well, no. Not like Cindy has the ability to feel guilty for most people, but it's a nice thought anyway.

With a lead foot and a disregard for the fact there is zero visibility, Cindy speeds into the fog until her eye catches onto a dark shadowy shape in the distance. While Lucius jumped out like an idiot set to die, Cindy remains near the car, only climbing out far enough to lean against the roof with a gun cocked in her hands in case that thing's people show up unexpectedly for revenge. "Wanna take it back home for dindin?"