romania ♔ follow me as i trip the darkness

[coldheritage]

WHO || Myri, Mark, Kat, Nadia Reichenov [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights track down a lead on the girl Decker Greenwall is looking to recruit
WHERE || A concert hall in Romania
WHEN || Early January, 2013 [back dated]
HOW || Actionspam

[ The Durere concert hall is absolutely packed when they make their way into the back after buying their tickets. Most of the people here have crowded the stage, although a few are parked at back tables with drinks casually procured from the bar. It's smoky and dingy and small, and the concert goers are arrayed in a variety of goth-looking ensembles: a sea of black and funky hair styles and piercings stretches out in front of them. The Knights look so abysmally out of place, it's almost funny. ]

Comments

[witchwoman]

[Myri's grip loosens slightly. How many times in her childhood had she dealt with a prejudice so similar to the one she can only imagine Nadia experienced? They called her a demon, said that her magic brought death to their town. They claimed that she stole the souls of the dead and fed them to her familiar. She doesn't pull away completely, but her tone is much more empathetic to the woman's past.]

Of course. But if you work with these people, they will make you a monster.

[coldheritage]

They're the only ones who can stop me from becoming one.

[shootfirst]

[ abruptly kat draws a vibrating phone from her pocket ] Ut oh. Speaking of Monsters Inc. [ reading: ] Eijen-Kay and Ecker-Day incoming.

Very incoming. [ she looks at the door, hesitates, then gestures to myri to let go of nadia and come towards her, frantically. ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri trusts Kat with her life, so when she sees the gesture, she immediately releases the singer and falls back to Kat's side.]

Please, Nadia... [She pleads for a final time, knowing that this is the end of the line for this conversation.] Once they have you, I'm not sure if we will be able to help you. We won't be able to keep you safe.

1/-

[shootfirst]

[ as nadia stares at myri, looking actually conflicted, kat grabs myri's wrist, closes her eyes, and snaps the fingers on her other hand. ]

Tai ra nelf compendium! [ and myri would experience the disorientating feeling of suddenly vanishing from sight, as both girls go invisible, and kat yanks her back against the clothes rack.

only moments later, the door is yanked open and nadia's head jerks that way. her expression falters a bit as keijen strides in, decker filling up the doorway behind him. ]

2/-

[narcosynthesis]

[ keijen moves straight towards her, lifting one hand to her hair as he grants her a smooth smile ] Alys, my dear. You were radiant tonight. [ the smile drops a bit, however, as he examines her pale expression, his hand falling away ] What? Is something wrong?

3/3

[coldheritage]

[ nadia's eyes cast towards the place where the two girls stand invisibly, for a single lingering moment. myri can feel kat's grip tighten on her, ready to attack when nadia inevitably calls them out.

but instead, she forces a strained smile and looks back to keijen, shaking her head and pushing a lock of hair behind her ear. ] It's nothing. Merely exhaustion.

[witchwoman]

[Myri remains painfully still, but as Nadia dismisses Keijen's inquiry, a thousand thoughts tumbles around her mind. Tears of relief and understand spring to her eyes. But they aren't out of the woods yet. There's no telling if Keijen will leave the room or take her with them. She wishes she had a way to speak to the girl without anyone else hearing. She wants to say that they'll do whatever they can, that they'll protect her and show her so many people who will accept her exactly as she is.

But for now, all the can is hold still and hope.]

1/-

[narcosynthesis]

Exhaustion. [ he repeats the word skeptically but doesn't press the issue. ] Well. I hop you are not too exhausted to come along now.

It is time.

2/3

[coldheritage]

[ to her credit, nadia pulls herself together quickly under his gaze (bluff 25), wrenching her eyes pointedly away from the spot where the girls huddle, and dropping all the nerves evinced moments before. ]

You'll keep your word?

3/3

[narcosynthesis]

[ he slides a hand across her lower back, steering her towards the door ] But of course.

You'll never feel alone again, Alys.

[witchwoman]

[As Keijen touches the girl, Myri has the bite down on her tongue and squeeze Kat's hand to keep from lunging out at the man. She gives her teammate a desperate look, wondering if they should do something, but not wanting to move on impulse and blow their cover if Kat was not on board with that.]

1/2

[coldheritage]

[ unfortunately... kat's invisible, and myri can no more see her than she can catch myri's look. it's impossible to tell what she's thinking right now... or when nadia lifts her chin high and heads out the door without another word, or a single look back.

keijen exits behind her, pausing with one hand on the door frame for a moment. they can see his smirk in profile as he lingers there... and then he's gone, the door falling shut behind them. ]

2/2

[shootfirst]

[ after a beat, the invisibility vanishes, and kat slams a hand against the wall ] Motherfucker!

[witchwoman]

[WHOOPS. For some reason, I assumed they could see each other. NEVERMIND.

As the spell falls away and Kat's hand strikes the wall, Myri jumps, but her eyes don't leave the door.]

We have to find her. [Her voice is so quiet in comparison to her colleague's, but steady and determined. She had gotten through to Nadia... hadn't she? Why else would she have let them stay hidden?] I won't let them hurt her.

[shootfirst]

Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go blow their heads off and grab her! [ she starts towards the door, gun raised ]

[witchwoman]

[Myri jumps in front of the door.]

We can't. I can't without ruining Finnick and Rafael's cover. And you can't take them alone. We have no idea what they're capable of.

[shootfirst]

[ but but

shooting things :(

mom's got a point ]

So we just let them go?

[witchwoman]

We follow them. [She says decisively, because it's the only solution she can imagine right now.] And if we have the chance, we take her. But only if it's safe for all of us.

[shootfirst]

What if she doesn't wanna come?

[witchwoman]

She wants to. If she didn't, she would have given us away.

[shootfirst]

Not be willing to let us die isn't the same as defecting.

[witchwoman]

We have to try, Kat. I won't give up on her. Not yet.

[shootfirst]

It's like I taught you well or something. Ok so... how are we gonna do this without blowing our cover?