Various storms and saints [Lethal Quartet vs Kerfluffle]
Mar 14, 2020 10:40:38 GMT -5
Post by * on Mar 14, 2020 10:40:38 GMT -5
"Soon enough you'll be on your own
Steady and straight
And if they drag you through the mud
It doesn't change what's in your blood"
~We'd walked until we couldn't anymore. Sometime before the night fell on us in this arena of sorts, I had made out a simple letter, tied it to Bubba and sent it on it's way. Though, Skittles were harder to maintain. It refused to go in the bag, but he wasn't meant to be bagged or used for whatever purposes it was intended. He became my conversationalist. His honks kept me entertained, so I either kept further ahead of the group or behind them like normal. Conversing between us had lessened. The tension was high I could tell with two of my allies, but River is the one I didn't understand at all.
She had gravitated toward me in efforts to bond, somehow. I allowed it, letting her join in and she got bored more quickly then I until it was the simple offer of food and the word became mine.
Perched on my shoulder, it flapped its wings until the bedroll had been laid out and we settled to sleep.
Though, who can sleep with the sweat that drenches the very ground in which we lay? The rolling of sweat down our faces, collecting down our backs and making our skin forever moist kept me awake.
"It's too damn hot for this shit." I find myself complaining for all the right reasons. Soon enough, just as my eyes became heavy for the first time and sleep decided to invade my waking consciousness, the light interrupted the thought processes it needed to send me over the edge. I grumbled and rolled over, comfortable for once to have laid on something soft, but it's surface was a waterbed of sweat. So much for wrapping it back up.
"Guys - do you realize where we are?" I kicked River's side and pointed to the pineapples that graced our viewing area. It was like nothing we'd ever seen and at night, we had no idea this is where we'd end up going. Amazement fell upon my mood. I've never had a pineapple, but this made it even more real.
"I can die happy if I can just taste one of them."
It was a simple statement when my attention was drawn to the right. In the distance a group of people came our way. At first, it was only two shadows and I could have sworn that the two remaining allies of the ones we'd off'd already were following us but just like mitosis, one of them split into two and suddenly I knew that it wasn't the same group at all. A new bunch of bodies that somehow found their way into our pineapple haven.
I've always been one to protect my own, and they were not welcomed here in the least. None of them - except... as I got closer, he came into view. I made a pass to Sarina and my voice caught but I could only mutter out a fearful response.
"No."
I had a pact with myself. No one was more important than my own well being, but as I kept my attention to Sarina gauging her reaction, I knew that today would end up going in the wrong direction. The only question remained, would Sarina find herself protecting him, or turning a blind eye? If I were in the same situation, I would turn a blind eye, though their relationship between each other was completely opposite of my own family relations. A tug of guilt somehow pulled the weapon from my bag and I glowered at him.
"Alfonso - you better not stick around if I were you." It was a fair warning and even though I drew my weapon up and ran in his direction, I passed him up aiming for the one behind him. I don't know who they were, but they had no history with me, so guilt wouldn't become my ally today.
[Amberly attacks Eloise with Warhammer]
t3DOghXB1Ospiked blunt
[14156 -- BLOCK -- 0.0 damage]
Accuracy reroll
spiked blunt
[14102 -- GASH/BRUISED RIGHT COLLAR BONE -- 3.0 damage]~
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