Dite's Decadent Delights, Monday Afternoon
After setting up Mini-Morton at the cash register to help anyone who came in, Karla went into the back room, her Craft supplies at hand. There hadn't been much in the way of useful information at the library that she could find--and Jono kind of had that avenue covered--and so Karla had decided to find out information the best way she knew how: a tangled web.
She didn't often spin prophecy webs, trusting more to her random tangled dreams instead, but desperate times and all that. Sitting down in the back, spider silk flew through her hands, creating an elaborate web in the wooden frame she'd brought with her. Closing her eyes, she let three drops of blood fall onto the web to awaken the power within.
Smoke. Tears. Screaming. Blood, so much blood. And a mad laugh that echoed and bounced off the walls. Raven, swimming through a pool of blood as it clung to her, staining her skin. Two flashes of golden light, gone too quickly to be certain what they were. Collars and chains made of shadows, encircling the throats of Raven's friends. Fear. Agony. Flocks of carrion birds screaming Raven's name over and over again in Warren's voice. Cruel, mocking laughter that started out at Raven's, turned into Sebastian's, and then ended as Karla's own...
She was abruptly thrown out of her vision as a surge of power flowed into the web and set it on fire. Before Karla could even react, the web was incinerated, leaving only charred remains of silk to float to the ground. Shuddering and unsure where that power had come from--it hadn't been hers--Karla vanished the wooden frame and headed back for the front room.
It would take awhile for her to tease out a coherent vision from the images she'd seen, but between those and the fire, Karla was going to be pretty damn shaken for the rest of her shift.
[OCD up. The images of the web are NFB, everything else is fine.]
She didn't often spin prophecy webs, trusting more to her random tangled dreams instead, but desperate times and all that. Sitting down in the back, spider silk flew through her hands, creating an elaborate web in the wooden frame she'd brought with her. Closing her eyes, she let three drops of blood fall onto the web to awaken the power within.
Smoke. Tears. Screaming. Blood, so much blood. And a mad laugh that echoed and bounced off the walls. Raven, swimming through a pool of blood as it clung to her, staining her skin. Two flashes of golden light, gone too quickly to be certain what they were. Collars and chains made of shadows, encircling the throats of Raven's friends. Fear. Agony. Flocks of carrion birds screaming Raven's name over and over again in Warren's voice. Cruel, mocking laughter that started out at Raven's, turned into Sebastian's, and then ended as Karla's own...
She was abruptly thrown out of her vision as a surge of power flowed into the web and set it on fire. Before Karla could even react, the web was incinerated, leaving only charred remains of silk to float to the ground. Shuddering and unsure where that power had come from--it hadn't been hers--Karla vanished the wooden frame and headed back for the front room.
It would take awhile for her to tease out a coherent vision from the images she'd seen, but between those and the fire, Karla was going to be pretty damn shaken for the rest of her shift.
[OCD up. The images of the web are NFB, everything else is fine.]