[A great light streaked up into the sky above the Headmaster's private office, trailed by a small plume of smoke.

A flare?

It could only have been one thing. A cry for help.

Will you answer the call?]

[Now was not the time to panic, she told herself. Replace panic with action and you'll get stuff done. And be done with this that much quicker ( Read more... )

Hey, Kelly. Got a minute?

[If you were wandering into the kitchen for a late night snack of some kind you'd see that the counters were covered with slashed, ripped, chewed on, demolished packets of hot chocolate powder. The instant kind that you put into hot milk and stirred ( Read more... )

[Oh hey guys. Here enjoy a pissed Audrey, conveniently in pain for your enjoyment. That gash on her shoulder was hurting something awful and she'd run out of the emergency painkillers in her first aid kit that she'd gotten at the beginning of the trip.]

Is anyone here a doctor or something?

[She needed to have the wide gash in her shoulder ( Read more... )

[Boop. Video pop up. And it's Audrey, grinning like she's looking forward to this crazy journey into the mist.]

Hey Jim. Got a few requests for you.

[This. was. so. damn. frustrating ( Read more... )

[Waiting was overrated. And Audrey .... didn't really care for being alone right now. The fall was still fresh in her mind and she'd been taking out her anger on machines and all manner of breakable things.

The video reveals she's in her machine shop. A wall of tools behind her and all manner of smudges on her overalls. She give the screen an even ( Read more... )

[Audrey could be found stomping over to her shop -- quickly though, she didn't want to be caught too. To gather her pistol from classes and the live rounds she had borrowed ( Read more... )

[They may be asleep, or contemplating the day. Or working out of frustration. But they will both receive the same message.

From it.

It appears, in a darkened corner, and ghosts its way closer. After all it has something to show them. A helmet. And it only whispers one thing, in a broken little voice.]

Hiccup