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Who: Open, please tag yourselves
What: Hallows Eve Celebration, part 2
When: Forward-dated to the 31st of October, 10:30pm
Where: The Keep's Great Hall, the grounds, anywhere ( Read more... )
What: Hallows Eve Celebration, part 2
When: Forward-dated to the 31st of October, 10:30pm
Where: The Keep's Great Hall, the grounds, anywhere ( Read more... )
He's not overly close to the bridge or walkways when the quiet falls - but he doesn't notice that, having shut off his audio recpetors to avoid the noise, and so he doesn't notice the bell tolling except as a faint vibration along his plating either - but he's certainly close enough to have seen them, and was even more confused over the fact that they were headless...
Or were.
It's hard to process what he's seeing at first. Then he just refused it, but that doesn't last more than a second; those are not pumpkin-heads on the scarecrows. He could see that well enough. He could even pick out a few... He's turned on his hearing again, and there's mutters from that direction, confusion...
Think.
Jetfire tilted his helm back, but offlined his optics and tried to think, to process it. He didn't understand. He couldn't, of course, make any sort of conclusion just standing here, he didn't even know what's going on, but Bryn's earlier explanation of the 'punishments' swam to the front and all he could think of was pain.
How much pain could you take before you broke?
"... Starscream?"
Not that the Seeker was close to hear that. And what about the few others he'd talked to? He can't really bring himself to move, just yet, though, but was by now staring at the scarecrows now in possession of... new... heads.
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"Jetfire?"
She is using her strawbody more like a strawdog, instead of a person. Without the wings her balance is, yet again, screwed up. She can't grab onto anything to hold her balance, so she's resorted to all fours. It's not easy, and it's less than comfortable and she's really not happy but, its starting to get her where she needs going.
She still hasn't seen the bloody headless stumps upon the other straw bodies yet.
Though the question is a forgone conclusion, it was still good to ask, "Are you alright?"
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Why... is she asking him if he was all right? She was now close enough to confirm what he'd seen and he knows Starscream had destroyed his own. Where was the Seeker? He quickly comes up besides her and kneels down, however, but... How do you handle this?
Treat it as torture. War time. He can handle that.
"How do you feel?"
Except, no one ever said he'd been good at this, no matter the situation.
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She clearly hasn't seen anyone else yet with cleaved heads upon straw bodies. Or seen what has become of her own. She gives up trying to get to her 'feet' and sits down.
"I can't seem to feel anything though. Do you know what happened?"
She's sore confused about that point.
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"No, I didn't... But you aren't the only one." Jetfire's not sure he should point this out or not, but he isn't in the habit of keeping facts away. "There are some others on the walkways and bridge behind you."
This shouldn't be possible. Not to humans. He was a bit shaky on the variations of what could, and couldn't, be done removing a Cybertronian's helm from their frames, which is why he sorely wants to go find Starscream, but he cannot leave Isabella like this.
But why were some like this, and others (or at least himself) not?
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Here was the panic, Jetfire.
He was taller, much taller, and could see better. Couldn't he?
"Please! Do you see a grey skinned boy? With horns? Four of them? Sollux?!"
She tries to get to her feet again. She has to get to her feet.
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"No. There's... no one like that around here." Not even further away, but there might be other places... Concentrate. Kneeling down again, Jetfire catches Isabella, her new body much too... flimsy, even more so than somebody made of flesh, carefully, helping her stand up, but not taking his hand away.
"Where were you before... before this?" She must have been somewhere. The barracks? Where was that party supposed to take place? "And where was Sollux? Was he with you?"
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Just as she was about to topple, the golem catches her with one of his large hands and helps her to stand. She clings to that stability as much as one can without thumbs to help.
"The H-hall. The p-arty that D-deior invited us to." She's going to try and make it to the hall now. Devils curse it. "I had b-brought him to it."
She points to the Great Hall and the doors there with one wooden hand.
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"How much help do you want... or need, to get over there?" He won't assume she wants, or needs, help, but he'll certainly ask.
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"I-f you can get me to the w-wall? I can go from th-there!"
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"Are you sure? It will hardly take that much longer to get you to the Hall, if I carry you and you'd be amenable to that." He will not just abandon her without being sure she will be where she wants... and needs to be.
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"W-would you? Please?"
Her voice is much higher than it was before.
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"Yes. Don't worry about it. Since Sollux doesn't seem to be here, he ought to be in the Hall, yes? Will you be fine from there?" Jetfire asked as he walked along the road back up to the Hall, pausing at the doors and looking Isabella over again. Not right at all, and this shouldn't be possible.
Any scans done indicated a perfectly normal, living human brain inside the skull, even when it ought to be impossible.
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