ITP: and red all over

[pieta_au_lait]

[IN A CLEARING is a really gross and bloody mess of mangled bodies. Oh my. '^'a Well, they seem to be reviving when you approach, at least! Except now one of them is screaming at the top of her lungs. Gosh, what is that girl's problem.

Oh, right...]

(( CONTEXT
ETA: ROBIN IS OUT and will pick up later))

Comments

[say_thee_nay]

[Screaming is definitely one way to attract attention.]

By Odin's beard...

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[kepthishead]

[IT LOOKS WORSE THAN IT IS ... MAYBE...?]

[say_thee_nay]

[... it looks pretty bad.]

Stand fast. All is well.

[kepthishead]

It's Robin.

[say_thee_nay]

What of her? The lady is traumatized, yet lives--and her senses have begun to return.

[kepthishead]

Are you sure?

[say_thee_nay]

So far as I can be... She hath no outward injuries, and hath begun to calm.

... why? What has happened here?

[kepthishead]

She died.

[say_thee_nay]

... verily.

At whose hand?

[kepthishead]

I - I didn't see. I saw Robin using her Craft to die that way and then ... then she was decapitated.

[say_thee_nay]

Using her Craft to... nay. As in... Suicide?

[kepthishead]

Yes? There was a ... something attached to her soul, destroying it. It was the only way to get it out.

[say_thee_nay]

Thine answers inspire e'er more questions... Something devouring her spirit--a demon, a restless phantom? If she is rid of it, where is the creature now--at large? Could her efforts have provoked some... retaliation?

[kepthishead]

[holds up a Very Angry Amulet.]

It can't hurt anyone else. I made sure of that.

[say_thee_nay]

[Instinctively reaching for his hammer...]

What manner of devilry...?

[kepthishead]

[a reaction that isn't blank staring!]

Don't break it! I can't bind it again.