024 // Action // EVACUATION // mingle??

[principal_mouse]

[Theres a noise, something organic and raw. The ground shakes a bit and you will be jolted out of your sleep. Get to a window and you'll see a flicker, the fence which has stood strong and proud against the black mist... the strangelings.... it's flickering.

It's not gonna hold up long.

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[croissantshaped]

[What was making that horrible noise? The Mist? Hands clamped over his ears, Quasi does his best to avoid the staff members herding everyone downstairs. He's terrified, but he's not going into the bunker until he knows Arista is safe.]

[fearthefool]

[...oh nonono, that won't do. We need you down in the bunker, Quasi, so Clopin abandons his post to follow the Hunchback down the hallway]

[princess_arista]

Quasi! [she broke through her line to dash to him and give him a desperate hug] Go! I'll be safe in my bunker. I'll feel happy knowing you're safe in yours. Be brave, okay?

[She said with a reassuring smile that even though tears of fright were streaming down her cheeks.]

[croissantshaped]

[She's crying? Oh God she's crying! Quasi's immediate reaction is horror, before he gets it under control and offers his own quivering smile in return.]

R-right.

[He can't say much more than that without engaging in a very unbrave expression of emotion, so he'll just give her a crushing hug in return.]

[princess_arista]

[She sniffled, not even realizing she was crying until she saw the wetness on his tunic. Shaking she forced herself to push him away, nodding to Clopin.] Go. Quick! Please... be safe!

[croissantshaped]

[Nodding to who? Quasi turns and finally notices that Clopin has followed him. He scowls at the gypsy (for following, for intruding, for making him leave Arista, for being Clopin) before looking back to Arista and ending their already overlong goodbyes.]

I-I will if you will.

[Childish, perhaps, but it gets his point across.]

[princess_arista]

I will! I promise! [she forces herself to turn and run back to the girl's line, unable to keep the tears from flowing.]

[fearthefool]

Come on, boy. To safety we go.

[croissantshaped]

[The ugliest scowl Quasi has ever mustered, put on just for you, Clopin.]

I'm going.

[fearthefool]

Good!
[pats Quasi on the hump]
Don't worry- you'll find her much the way you left her if you find her.

[croissantshaped]

[Comforting words from the world's most obnoxious gypsy? Quasi raises an eyebrow at that, but...]

...Thanks.

[And off he goes, heading to where he's supposed to be.]

[hungarianmouse]

Oh, do be careful!

[Miss Bianca narrowly avoided being squashed by Quasi's foot and, in a quick thinking attempt to stop that from happening again, grabbed the edge of his trousers and pulled herself up on to the relative safety of his shoe.]

Please, listen to me. You need to go to the bunker as soon as possible.