There's blood on the moon and the summer is cold...

[ohsogrounded]

[[This is backdated to the end of last month, after a certain Flagg/Amber thread which I will NOT link to. It's very explicit, very horrifying, and you probably don't want to read it. Ever. I mean it. WORSE THAN THANE, Y'ALL. Besides, if you really want to, you can go hunt through the archives. Just don't say I didn't warn you.]]

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[elashte]

It's the earthquake that really wakes Elashte - rousing him out of shadowy dreams, dark things moving at the edge of his consciousness, ineffable but too illusory to remember past the moment he wakes. He's had these dreams before, vanishing past recall in the morning, save for a lingering sense of unease banished by the routines of the day.

Not this morning. This morning, that sense of unease shifts smoothly into a sense of unreality as he opens his eyes to feel the room shaking.

He's rolled out of bed, grabbing his medical bag and phone as the first notes of panic and confusion begin to flare up under his psychic awareness; jamming his feet into slippers and hitting the speed-dial for Tay's phone as a certain mind comes into focus.

He has to suppress a gasp, at that, before closing his eyes and narrowing in on Amber as best he can. And at that - he's not close enough to fix her in a Poludnical gaze, can't see the exact mechanisms of the damage, but that-

Don't mind the stab of shockfear you're getting from your ward, Tay. And

[archangelet]

Tay, too, was awake and rolling out of bed even before she consciously had any idea what was happening. And she was halfway dressed before she realised she was falling over because the floor was shaking, not because she was being clumsy.

So when her phone rings, she grabs it and answers before it can ring a second time.

"What's the situation?" she asks as she shoves her feet into her sneakers. Thank god for custom ring tones for different callers.

[elashte]

Situation. There's something to be said for the perfect prgmatism of the battlefield-trained. Elashte is decidedly not a soldier. He's a doctor, and not one who works with a great deal of trauma - this sort of situation is unfamiliar to him.

And the last time something seeming this urgent occurred, he was unconscious for it all.

Still. The least he can do is not come off like a babbling child, so he takes a deep breath, tightens his grip on his medical bag, and starts for the door. "Something is wrong-" terribly wrong, wrong on a scale that takes him right back to Harkness turning into Thane and twists itself over against the axis of perception "-with Amber McKeenan; I'd imagine she's the cause of this earthquake." And how a young and not-terribly-trained Earth elemental forces an earthquake this large... she must have been pushed beyond her mind in more ways than one. "I need to determine what."

[archangelet]

If Tay weren't already in crisis-response mode, she'd stop in her tracks, and her movements falter for a second as she straps her holsters on, checks the clips to make sure they're loaded, and grabs her machete - just in case

[savesomelight]

[[OOC: Hopefully, there's still call for a Piper. ^^;;]]

That amount of emotional turmoil is enough to incapacitate one little Glasya, who tumbles out of bed and hits the floor, curled in on herself and gritting her teeth so hard as she forces back all the emotions that aren't hers. She's better at this when she's expecting it, but she wasn't really prepared and her room's not far from Amber's. For a moment, she's disassociated and overwhelmed and choking back a scream.

Those aren't your emotions. Get your head in the game, Piper.

The voice in her head is always a lot fiercer than she actually is.

She finally regains control and jumps to her feet. Her room's a mess from the earthquake- books fallen off shelves and scattered and bits of kitsch broken on the floor. She steps over the broken bits and heads towards Amber's room at a run, ducking into the shadows when she sees Tay and El enter and then waiting until they leave again before she creeps over to the door and opens it a crack to stick her head inside.

"....Amber?"