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[ATBASH CIPHER.]

ATBASH CIPHER

everything's just come together at last !

Tanglewood was... getting fucked lately, with Merlin getting captured, Atbash herself getting almost killed, and many others just... getting injured. Poor Moth probably was stressing the fuck out over whether or not she could keep up with the injuries, though Atbash wasn't entirely sure if that was the case. Moth didn't seem like she was stressed but then again, everyone showed stress in different ways. Atbash tended to want to avoid situations that could involve stress and that was her way of dealing with it.

Truthfully, Atbash wasn't even sure herself where dream demons went when their mortal body was killed. There was a way to kill their spirit too, she knew, and they just simply... faded from existence. But she didn't know where Vigenere was right now and in the back of her mind, she was angry too. Vigenere had always been there for her, to protect her from Caesar, up until the point Caesar destroyed their home and all three of them came to the land of Beyond. Hell, once they arrived here, Vigenere chased her off, claiming that he needed time to himself. It was almost hypocritical of him to come and join Tanglewood after all of that.

But if Vigenere was truly dead then he couldn't see any of the events that were happening. Atbash couldn't fathom why he would stay away so long if he saw how badly Tanglewood was suffering. He was all about being a soldier, being a protector... why would he want the group he lead to suffer the way they were now? It just didn't seem like him. Was he trapped in wherever his spirit remained?

Arrow's shriek startled Atbash and the coyote raised her head from where she laid in her home. She blinked for a few moments, as if she were trying to decipher whether or not she actually heard that or if it had been something in her dream. Eventually the Shaderunner decided that the scream was, in fact, real and she quickly got out of bed and exited her home, standing on her porch as she scanned the surroundings for who or what made that sound. Her gaze soon fell on Arrow in the distance and she ran up to her clanmate in concern. She expected to see the former ghost with the fur color she had gotten when she possessed this cheetah body but instead she was met with a brown-furred cheetah. "Arrow?" Atbash tried to poke the Reaper, a frown on her face. "What happened, are you okay?" Clearly not, as evident by the small scratches on her body and well... the shriek that came from her mouth before.

Arrow's body now resembled how she looked as a ghost. That was... fascinating, if Atbash was honest with herself, but right now wasn't really the time to comment on it, especially given how upset Arrow seemed at the moment.

female | shaderunner [shp] of tanglewood | "speaking" | thoughts | "telepathically speaking"

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