pembrokeshire ♔ the day has come where i have died

[immuno]

WHO || Lydia Martin, Alaric Saltzman, Helen Magnus, Rose Hathaway, Sydney Bristow
WHAT || A couple of knights take a short trip west to investigate reports of Shadowkind deaths.
WHERE || Police Station, Pembrokeshire, Wales
WHEN || May 20th
HOW || Actionspam

The briefing was simple and direct: a string of disappearing Shadowkind centered around a small farming town in Wales. The Karthur Institute wasn't called in until the local authorities got reports of incessant, blood-curdling screams coming from a barn just past the edge of town. They found a girl curled in the corner there, screaming her lungs out, shaking, and looking like she'd been running around the forest alone for days.

They also found the five bodies of their missing townspeople in the barn.

They tell the knights (and thus, Wynn tells them) that the girl is in police custody, but they don't tell them that she's pinned in a cell. They've fed her and given her a coat by now, but the deputy is quick to alert Helen, Rose, Sydney, and Alaric as they arrive of the bad news.

"She hasn't shut up since we put her in there." He glances back over his shoulder, toward the lock-up. "Not screamin', just wanting to know who they were." He looks back at the knights, grim. "Don't think she's got any idea how she got out there. I don't have it in me to tell her I don't either; wherever she's rom, it inn't Pembrokeshire."

Comments

[ex_ric243]

[Ric actually appreciates the fact that Helen bothered to tell the town doctor what he needed to do. It wasn't just officer incompetent anymore, he was going to go ahead and assume everyone in this backwoods was just as clueless anymore.

But ultimately finding the girls was the best use of Helen's time, and what he made clear should be done from the beginning. He does his best to return the smile while his torso looks like ground beef but he half expects these Deliverance rejects to start hacking him up like some redneck horror movie after she's gone.

Prepare to have the bitchiest patient of your career, doc.]

[immuno]

[ The doctor, with Helen's orders, does manage to start properly working on Ric.

Meanwhile, officer incompetent gets back in the car with Helen. ]

They got a farm house a couple miles up the road.

[ As he settles into the car, he looks around, realizing ... Amy and Eddie never made it here. :) Despite Eddie's injuries. ]

[daredtobelieve]

[She's very careful to note the directions they're taking to get to this farm house (navigate 25) so that she can relay the information to Ric later. Just saying that much now.

The officer's hesitation gives her pause. But she's not on his wavelength (wis 9) and just thinks he's stalling.]

I'd rather not lose any more time, if we can help it.

[move bitch]

[immuno]

[ Gurl that's a doctor and Ric is fucked up I don't think he's coming to hang out. There ain't no clerics in this bitch.

Helen's comment jerks the officer out of his confusion and he just shakes it off—they must have been faster. He starts up the car and heads over to the farmhouse. ]

[daredtobelieve]

[SHE IS VERY HOPEFUL OKAY

Once they're moving, she seems to stop bristling quite as much.]

I hope for your sake that my people are unharmed.

[Okay still bristly tho]

[immuno]

Whatever's going on here is just some kind of misunderstanding.

[ Stubborn!!! ]

[daredtobelieve]

[She just shoots him a glare. Mom face activate. Intimidate 31.]