[EVENT] Lavender's Blue [open]

[snowblindmods]

Characters: anyone and everyone
Location all around town
Date: Night 180
Summary: Kill the sinners or run for your lives.
Warnings: Horror, potential gore and death. Please note more specific warnings in subject lines!

close we will live, dilly dilly
and when we die
both in one grave, dilly dilly
close we will lie

Comments

[phaseshifter]

Beckett. Be nice.

[ She isn't entirely un-creeped-out herself, honestly, but she's felt that way since the doors opened. There's a wrongness in the air, and it seems likely to be responsible for any weird paranoia issues she's suffering. Beckett too, right?

She peers out from behind Grouchy McGrumpire, the increased glow of her eyes casting a weak blue light on Quark even from a distance. Being your own (shitty) flashlight doesn't help make anything any less eerie, for the record. ]

You should get back inside. Like you said - it might not be safe.

[averytinyparticle]

There's no use staying inside when anyone can come and go.

[He brings his other arm around his back so he's holding his knife in both hands. Quark rocks in his heels, feigning innocence like he can't even remember how he'd normally act around people he knows.]

I'm looking for my friends. We were separated. In the confusion.

[He can't stop looking at their eyes. Those bright eyes. Those horrible, sinning eyes. The corners of his mouth twitch.]

[bookofnope]

[Angel. Since when is Beckett ever nice.

He isn't trying to be actively hostile. Whatever Quark's feelings about him, he doesn't actually reciprocate them in any meaningful way. The child is, well, just a child. There's no reason for him to be nervous around Quark. And the fact that he is despite not finding such a reason is making him yet more nervous.

He isn't moving away from Angel anytime soon. Stuck like vampire glue. Hiding her as best he can.]

What confusion? What happened?

[phaseshifter]

[ It's Beckett's demeanour that's making Angel more nervous than anything else. She's usually the first to place herself in front of other people (RHYS) when there's danger, and she isn't quite sure how to respond to being on the other side of it. Particularly when it's just Quark, for frick's sake.

She settles for slipping a hand in his, squeezing reassuringly. He'd only get more on-edge if she stepped out from behind him, right? So best not to. ]

Who were you with? Whoever you're looking for, they aren't back that way.

[averytinyparticle]

Charles and Charlie.

[But Charles is a sinner, and Charlie's gone to hunt him down. Quark smiles, but the smile looks wrong on his face. It doesn't look like it belongs to himself.]

What way are you going?

[bookofnope]

These two left you - ?

[The best intentions, but the touch of Angel's hand in his almost makes Beckett jump. He's not used to such overt displays. For a moment he's unguarded. but why would Charles and Charlie ever leave the boy alone...

Damn it, he is done.] What really happened, child?