OOM: Outside

[ardens_guard]

Julian has come back to the bar against his better judgement. Under normal circumstances, he'd stay away for as long as possible - probably a decade or so, just so he doesn't have to deal with this. But he doesn't want it to weigh on his mind and somehow, he doesn't want to forget about her either

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[song_tra_bong]

'Till you drown in the light and the sound...

The back door opens and Mary Anne heads outside. Her body language indicates she's walking this fast because running would draw questions.

Gradually, her steps slow, then stop. She tips her head back, inhaling the night air and visibly relaxing. As comforting as they'd been at first, the walls were getting to her.

She isn't aware of anyone else out here.

[ardens_guard]

Julian's in a tree at the moment, because he's waiting for demon bunnies to show up and that's easier when you're not on the forest floor, spooking them.

A few shuffle their way into his eyeline and will find themselves immediately skewered through by arrows.

He doesn't look back towards the bar in the distance, so he didn't see her come out. But he's been checking periodically so it's only a matter of time.

[song_tra_bong]

After a moment, she stuffs her hands in her jacket pockets and wanders along the lake's edge.

She watches the stars and the water alternately, remembering what it was like to fly and wondering if the Master Shark is turning circles in the lake's depths.

[ardens_guard]

He stills as the sound of feet scuffing along stone and sinking into damp ground reaches his ears. Then he leans round the tree trunk to search for the source of the sound and...yes. He knew it.

There's only a momentary hesitation. And then an arrow is nocced and shot in one fluid motion, to bury itself in the ground about six inches in front of her feet.