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[lestrangestone]

[A slow scrape as the Forge comes to life - literally. Static burst and colors flicker green, grey and every shade and shadow in between. The device slides along the stones that make the streets here, water clinging and pooling in random cracks - beading and rolling across the screen as it stands itself up

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[wotchesyou]

[ Had the Mist known? Was it foreshadowing? Something else? ]

Really, Auntie Bell? Do you think it wise to make even more enemies?

[ Then she laughs.

It's not like any sound she's ever made before. Do you recognize it Bellatrix? You should. You picked on the one person that you share DNA with. There's enough of a Black in Tonks that she has a dark side. It can be provoked and it has been. ]

[voice : delayed]

[lestrangestone]

[If she were somehow less blinded by this new vision, she might betray a hint of wariness in her eyes. No matter, it's voice. But the center will not always hold.]

I see no enemies.

[Those that surround her have all been branded. Any enemies are well out of her sightlines. And will suffer further if they refuse to submit.]

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[wotchesyou]

[ No, Bellatrix won't see any enemies. That's what makes it so beautiful. ]

Not yet...

[ She laughs again. Oh, Bellatrix. You don't know what's coming for you. You don't have a clue. ]

[video]

[lestrangestone]

Those who don't accept the mark shan't live long. It's only a matter of time. Can you hear them? The sands slipping past glass and into nothing? It's what waits for you.

[Nope. No clue at all. She considers you broken and discarded. A victory when really, it's her own defeat in the making.]

[Video]

[key_destination]

[Even though Roxas hadn't meant to turn on his Forge while watching the feed, it's recording him now and his expression is completely blank out of shock. He's watching a horror scene and he's not sure how to react just yet. It doesn't seem real enough, or at least he doesn't want it to be real.]

...

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[lestrangestone]

Oh, I see you, there. What's the matter, nothing to say?

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[key_destination]

[Another pause of silence as he remembers the last time she talked to him directly just after when he ripped out that woman's heart. And the memory is just another spike of pain along with this new situation. Even if he can't place it, the anger comes fast as chokes him as he forces his question.]

Why...?

[key_destination]

Why are you doing this? What is wrong with you?!

[actionlurk]

[lumenrelegandus]

[Lupin switches off the forge and goes to reset and reinforce the wards around the Clinic and dojo. His face is so stony that everyone who's usually eager to talk to him steers well clear. Defense first; always defense first. But if someone else is planning to go on the attack, they'd better do it quick to beat him to it.]

[poweroflegend]

[This reminds him of home somehow. Of unholy rituals carried out by sinister covens beneath a new moon. Kind of like those that tried to bring the Dark Lord back... maybe...]

[Loathe as he is to let this go, he has more pressing matters to attend to. So he's just going to have to trust in the others.]

Action | Video filtered to Police and Patrol members

[hebime]

[A black shape darts from roof to roof, as close as those stone lions' flame breath will allow. Only the nimblest of tumbles had saved him from a repeat of the accident that had scarred him. No way he's getting that close again.]

[So now he's skirting the perimeter of this mystical martial law zone. Silently taking video from cover of shadow and multiple vantage points. And relaying it to those in his filter.]

[Ninja and commando--- East and West--- clashed often. But the one thing both these sides of Snake-Eyes agreed on, and excelled at... was reconnaisance.]