07-25-2019, 03:28 AM
[font=trebuchet ms]Rin would have given everything she still owned, up to and including her soul, to not have to hear an ally’s screams again.
She had been halfway across town, when she heard the unholy screeching that she knew could only belong to a severely injured or dying victim. Her paws carried her to the scene faster than she would have expected, considering her physical state, but it still wasn’t fast enough. It took her a moment to locate the body, but a tilt of the head and a crane of the neck finally revealed the gruesome scene.
Spiderwebs covered most of the corpse, sealing up the holes where vital organs had once been, leaving only the hospital mask visible to identify the slain innocent.
She screamed.
She said nothing, but there was no hiding the nauseated grimace that slipped onto her features.
Well, that was one more person’s blood on her conscience. Shaking her head, she levitated herself up to the pillar where the unfortunate victim had (presumably) been stuck on the rebar from. They stunk of Tanglewood, strangely enough. The carved letters in their side, spelling “Anti,” suggested it was just one member wanting to wreak havoc. Tanglewood would have had no motive to go against Elysium, other than boredom.
Still, alliances had been betrayed over less than that.
She could investigate later. If Tanglewood did want to start a war on two fronts, they stood no chance. Right now, she had to remove the saber tooth from this... undignified resting place. She recognized them as the one who had helped her bandage herself up, following the Pitt raid. They deserved, at least, a proper burial. There wasn’t any way she saw to get them down without causing further damage to the corpse, but better a few shattered bones or torn bits of flesh than rotting atop a pole.
Levitating herself into the air again, she pulled the corpse by the scruff up the pole, until it came free. Though she tried to maintain her grip on their fur, their weight was too large, and they fell from her jaws towards the ground below, landing with a sickening thud. With a heavy sigh, she lowered herself down to the ground, landing at the corpse’s side.
They had no pendant to speak of, so she ought to just bury them and leave something as a marker. Beginning to dig a hole large enough to fit a saber tooth, Rin wearily called out, ”I’m going out to Tanglewood later. One of theirs just murdered one of ours.”
/3 AM mobile post, yey
She had been halfway across town, when she heard the unholy screeching that she knew could only belong to a severely injured or dying victim. Her paws carried her to the scene faster than she would have expected, considering her physical state, but it still wasn’t fast enough. It took her a moment to locate the body, but a tilt of the head and a crane of the neck finally revealed the gruesome scene.
Spiderwebs covered most of the corpse, sealing up the holes where vital organs had once been, leaving only the hospital mask visible to identify the slain innocent.
She screamed.
She said nothing, but there was no hiding the nauseated grimace that slipped onto her features.
Well, that was one more person’s blood on her conscience. Shaking her head, she levitated herself up to the pillar where the unfortunate victim had (presumably) been stuck on the rebar from. They stunk of Tanglewood, strangely enough. The carved letters in their side, spelling “Anti,” suggested it was just one member wanting to wreak havoc. Tanglewood would have had no motive to go against Elysium, other than boredom.
Still, alliances had been betrayed over less than that.
She could investigate later. If Tanglewood did want to start a war on two fronts, they stood no chance. Right now, she had to remove the saber tooth from this... undignified resting place. She recognized them as the one who had helped her bandage herself up, following the Pitt raid. They deserved, at least, a proper burial. There wasn’t any way she saw to get them down without causing further damage to the corpse, but better a few shattered bones or torn bits of flesh than rotting atop a pole.
Levitating herself into the air again, she pulled the corpse by the scruff up the pole, until it came free. Though she tried to maintain her grip on their fur, their weight was too large, and they fell from her jaws towards the ground below, landing with a sickening thud. With a heavy sigh, she lowered herself down to the ground, landing at the corpse’s side.
They had no pendant to speak of, so she ought to just bury them and leave something as a marker. Beginning to dig a hole large enough to fit a saber tooth, Rin wearily called out, ”I’m going out to Tanglewood later. One of theirs just murdered one of ours.”
/3 AM mobile post, yey
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