7 [voice]: Complications Arise For Czeslaw Meyer When Fairy Tales Are True In The Worst Way

[tiny_schemer]

[A small, frightened voice, echoing off of the hard walls of an enclosed space: Czeslaw is trapped after sirens, and currently taking refuge at a bus stop.]

I - I saw something out there in the darkness. Something bad. A creature with hollow eyes and big teeth and a big, round head. I b-barely escaped with my life

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[Video]

[meteor_heart]

[Someone trapped after the Sirens? UNACCEPTABLE! Tifa's already donning her gloves and goggles.] Where are you? I can come get you out of there, doesn't sound like a place you should be.

voice;

[tiny_schemer]

[Czeslaw doesn't switch on the video to reply.]

N-no, miss, you can't come out here! It's dangerous! I'll be okay, I just need to wait out the night.

[Video]

[meteor_heart]

It's okay! I've been fighting monsters here for a while now, I've gotten pretty good at it. I can't just leave you there besides. [She's taking the stairs down to her apartments basement parking garage now.]

voice;

[tiny_schemer]

No really. You mustn't put yourself in harm's way for me, please.

[This genuinely distresses him: Tifa is a very young girl to his eyes immortal eyes, and fighter or not, he loathes the idea of her putting herself on a limb for a little boy who isn't all he appears to be.]

I'll be fine. One of my friends will come get me soon.

[voice, private, high difficulty]

[mentis_reae]

[A long pause. Then, quietly:]

Are you all right now?

[voice, private, high difficulty]

[tiny_schemer]

Of course. My new clothes are a little bit messed up [so annoyed, dang, he literally bought these clothes like last week!] but I'm safe in a shelter now. Whatever that thing was, I believe it gave me up for dead.

[voice, private, high difficulty]

[mentis_reae]

Do you need assistance? If you do not feel confident you can make it the night, I can have someone go out there.

[voice, private, high difficulty]

[tiny_schemer]

I'm fine. Someone's coming to get me.

[pause]

Thank you, though.

PRIVATE

[makes_asteroids]

Where are you? [The anger in his voice is a warning. But not to Czeslaw.]

PRIVATE

[tiny_schemer]

If I don't tell you, will you promise not to look for me? It's dangerous tonight, Erik.

Re: PRIVATE

[makes_asteroids]

That thing already killed my grandson. I'm coming to get you. How much I have to search is up to you.

PRIVATE

[tiny_schemer]

[And Czeslaw doesn't know whether he's angry or touched, so he's a little bit of both, gritting his teeth.]

It's one of the bus stops between the library and the dormitory. I couldn't tell you more than that. It's dark and I was running.

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

There have been reports of stranger and stranger things, out there in the Darkness...

What were you doing out after Siren?! Will you be alright there- wherever you are? The proofing's sturdy?

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

Um... I wanted to see them. The darkness creatures. I thought I could handle it but I was wrong.

[Little tiny voice:] Am I in trouble?

[Voice]

[gaveherwings]

How long have you been here in this city? Certainly you know the dangers and risks of going outside after dark. Having a closer look at a monster is not worth putting yourself in so much danger!

[Voice]

[tiny_schemer]

I'm sorry! [Czeslaw sounds near tears.] I didn't - I thought it'd be okay! Everyone else gets to do cool stuff and I always have to hide behind someone bigger!

Please don't yell...

permavoice

[oooh_specimens]

Did the man also appear to be a creature of the Darkness?

[tiny_schemer]

No, that was the strange thing. I thought he was a real man, that's why I stopped in the first place.

He was carrying a sword, it was all very strange. M-maybe I was just dreaming...

[oooh_specimens]

Interesting. What did the sword look like?

[tiny_schemer]

[sharply:] It looked like a sword, I guess! A great big pointy one, like a hero in a book.