// 013. [video] Shadows Event
[It's not unusual for the Forge to turn itself on in Anatole. Even less so in Bella's presence (some sort of Mist effect on legilimency? Perhaps.). It's propped against a stack of books, affording the best possible view of the unfolding scene.
What isunusual is her expression. It's rattled beyond its usual limits. She's backed up against the far wall in the corner of her parlor where she so often broadcasts from. The large, ornate mirror, fully repaired (and of its own accord, too) after the last debacle, reflects several shadows on the edges of the room.
They flicker past, stop and hover - disappear so fast as to leave one in doubt of ever having seen them at all.
Bella's eyes move rapidly beneath the tangle of her hair, and the fingers holding her wand do not cease their trembling.
A rat scurries past her feet, over them - and as she kicks at it, the darkness shapes itself into shadowcast shackles around her wrists.
Her wand is out of her hands like quicksilver - stopping in midair a few feet away. Is that a hand closed around it, just off the edge of the screen? Why, yes.]
[ooc: Merry, do your worst. SURPRISE ME, EVEN.]
What isunusual is her expression. It's rattled beyond its usual limits. She's backed up against the far wall in the corner of her parlor where she so often broadcasts from. The large, ornate mirror, fully repaired (and of its own accord, too) after the last debacle, reflects several shadows on the edges of the room.
They flicker past, stop and hover - disappear so fast as to leave one in doubt of ever having seen them at all.
Bella's eyes move rapidly beneath the tangle of her hair, and the fingers holding her wand do not cease their trembling.
A rat scurries past her feet, over them - and as she kicks at it, the darkness shapes itself into shadowcast shackles around her wrists.
Her wand is out of her hands like quicksilver - stopping in midair a few feet away. Is that a hand closed around it, just off the edge of the screen? Why, yes.]
[ooc: Merry, do your worst. SURPRISE ME, EVEN.]