Tristain
Cub
"Monsters are as Monsters do. Am I a Monster?"
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Post by Tristain on Jul 1, 2009 22:02:10 GMT 1
Tristain wakes with a start, as he hadn't intended to fall alseep at all. He glances around the room and very quickly retireves the knife from the ground.
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Post by Shehrazad on Jul 1, 2009 23:40:10 GMT 1
Anna was also visited with visions while she slept. The short, terrifying time she had spent awake and in Matthias' care had been enough to dredge up all the memories of their time together back on the East side. Nightmares of being eaten and abused again and again resurfaced and when she woke, it was with a terrified scream. Looking around, it was obvious to her that she had been captured again. She had somehow been taken back to the East side and was in the chapel that the Black Spiral Dancers occupied. They had even bandaged her wounds so she would be healthy for more abuse. Oddly, she wasn't restrained, but sometimes they had let her out of her restraints so they could laugh when her hopes were dashed. This was obviously one of those occasions, peering around the chapel Anna was sure she could see some of the others peering through cracks when she wasn't looking right at them, watching her and waiting for the inevitable suffering. She didn't recognise the young man that was close by, but the knife he was holding made it obvious who's side he was on.
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Anna
Garou
Der Wahnsinn ist nur eine schmale Br?cke
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Post by Anna on Jul 1, 2009 23:59:40 GMT 1
The scream quickly turned into a cry of pain as she tried to open her broken jaw. Anna panicked. She couldn't be back here. Part of her was still hoping this was just a nightmare, and she would wake up soon. But that was only a small part that was clinging to hope. She really knew there was none.
And the scream turned into a roar of rage as she shifted to Crinos. She vaguely noticed the collar was gone, because she wasn't choking to death yet. This probably should have made her reconsider, but it didn't. Rage, frustration, and a sinking feeling of despair had already taken over.
Use up some of that extra built-up rage to shift to Crinos.
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Tristain
Cub
"Monsters are as Monsters do. Am I a Monster?"
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 7:12:42 GMT 1
As Anna started to stir, Tristain had backed off warily to the other side of the room. As she shifts to Crinos, his eyes go wide and he doesn't even bother talking, instead taking off through the open doorway and hunkering down on the other side of the wall. From through the doorway, Anna hears him shout "Wait!", but he doesn't seem too keen on sticking around to see if she does.
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Post by Shehrazad on Jul 2, 2009 8:29:58 GMT 1
They're at the windows, hiding behind the furniture, peeking through cracks in doorways, everywhere around Anna more eyes are watching her torment in silent glee. Even without the visions, the sight of what could only be one of her tormentors running away caused Anna's predatory instincts to rise and push her to chase and kill, so rarely had she had the chance to act out that desire. Of course he was saying things, like everything else her captors had said it would be a lie... or a horrific truth that she would prefer not to hear.
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Anna
Garou
Der Wahnsinn ist nur eine schmale Br?cke
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 10:16:56 GMT 1
Anna did wait, but only enough for her bones to mend and her head to clear. As soon as she was able to, she got to her feet. She smashed the furniture against the cracks and tried to get to the eyes and gouge them out. To stop them watching. She advanced slowly on her 'captor', but picked up speed as her body healed.
Yes! Kill him! Rip out his heart and taste his blood!
Anna hesitated. Was this what they wanted? They always liked their games, and she was playing into their hands. Why else would they leave her without the collar? They were hiding, waiting. Well she wasn't going to give them what they wanted.
She snarled again, shifted to Lupus, and ran for the exit. The nearest window, door, anything that led outside and into the woods.
(Spend Rage again to shift to Lupus. If I'm not fully healed yet, spend Rage to ignore a level of wound penalties too.)
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Tristain
Cub
"Monsters are as Monsters do. Am I a Monster?"
Posts: 170
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 10:27:41 GMT 1
Tristian calls out again as she runs past, but makes no move to stop her. He wasn't crazy enough to do something like that right now. "Wait, where are you going?" As she disappears out into the city, he slumps down against a wall, and begins to cry for the first time in over a year, a terrible sense of being alone crushing any energy he'd recovered by sleeping.
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Post by Shehrazad on Jul 2, 2009 10:40:02 GMT 1
Anna ran out of the church at full speed and was suprised to find herself unopposed. More to her suprise, she was not deep in the woods at the top of the hill in East Berlin, but she was in the city centre in West Berlin. Even Anna's damaged mind couldn't stay convinced that she was captive again in light of all the evidence. The biggest hint was the screaming crowds of humans that were scattering at the sight of the pure white, blood-spattered wolf running through the streets.
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Anna
Garou
Der Wahnsinn ist nur eine schmale Br?cke
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 10:53:30 GMT 1
Oh no...
Anna stopped running and started to back up. Where were the woods? More pressingly, where were the Spirals? She recognised this street. She knew exactly where she was. Almost instinctively she reached for the Monkey Puzzle, but it wasn't there. She started to panic again. She couldn't have lost it. She backed away from the crowds, and ran back up to the church. She ignored the naked man with the knife at first and sniffed around frantically for the amber talisman. Then she shifted to homid and turned to him. "Where is it?" she shouted. The tattered remains of her nightgown still clung to her, making her only a little less naked than Tristain. "Give it back!"
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Tristain
Cub
"Monsters are as Monsters do. Am I a Monster?"
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 11:08:51 GMT 1
Tristain starts as he hears someone come back into the church, hoping like hell it's the girl come back and not the Eastie from earlier. He's on his feet by the time she gets to him, and watches her not even trying to disguise his fear. With all that's happened recently, he just wants to find somewhere to curl up and cry, but it doesn't look like the world's about to give him that luxury. As the girl shouts at him, he starts again, and looks like he's trying to burrow into the wall with his shoulderblades.
"What it?" He's just about managing to hold it together, but being shouted at by a Garou he half expects to try and tear him in half any second isn't doing much for his composure. "The hell are you talking about?"
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Anna
Garou
Der Wahnsinn ist nur eine schmale Br?cke
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 11:17:21 GMT 1
"The talisman, it was around my neck," Anna said. She looked at him. It suddenly dawned on her how strange the situation was. They were here, alone. He had almost let her escape. And he seemed to be scared of her. He certainly wasn't acting like one of them.
"What happened?" she asked. She was calming down a little, but only a little.
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Tristain
Cub
"Monsters are as Monsters do. Am I a Monster?"
Posts: 170
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 11:28:24 GMT 1
"The only thing I saw round your neck was that." He gestures to the collar lying on the floor. "No... talisman." In all honesty, he wouldn't have known a talisman if it jumped up and bit him, but he assumed the collar wasn't what she'd been talking about, as it was in such plain view.
As the girl seems to calm down a little, Tristain also seems to get a little less tense, though he's still holding the knife out infront of him in a manner reminiscent of someone trying to ward off a vampire with a crucifix. "What happened? Well the short version is that some East-side fucker decided to kidnap you, but wasn't banking on me being there and running off with you. I'm Tristain, by the way." He knows her name full well, but decides it'd be a bit less threatening to let her introduce herself. And right now, he wants to be as unthreatening as he can possibly get.
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Post by Shehrazad on Jul 2, 2009 11:28:42 GMT 1
It seemed like it wasn't a good time to try to stop and talk. Pursuing the white wolf (at a healthy distance) some nosy bystanders looked inside the church. The sight of the two near-naked teenagers broke their stride. "Look out! There's... what are you two doing in here, like that?!" The nosy bystander shook his head, the two could be interrogated about what they were doing fornicating in a church later. "Whatever. A wolf ran in here, didn't you see it? You should get out!"
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Anna
Garou
Der Wahnsinn ist nur eine schmale Br?cke
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Post by Anna on Jul 2, 2009 11:40:42 GMT 1
Anna looked at the collar and shuddered. "I'm Anna. We... we got away?" she asked with disbelief. "You went up against him?" She sounded sceptical, but still impressed. The line of questioning had to stop due to more pressing matters though.
"Hey, mind your own damn business," she snapped at the bystander. "Let's go, quickly," she said. She backed down the aisle before they could get a closer look and realise she was bloody as well as naked, and looked back to make sure Tristain was following.
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Tristain
Cub
"Monsters are as Monsters do. Am I a Monster?"
Posts: 170
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Post by Tristain on Jul 2, 2009 13:10:49 GMT 1
Tristain visibly sags as the girl switches mental gears and stops threatening to kill him. He glances up at the interruption, then back at the girl and a few choice phrases pass through his mind. He doesn't voice them however, he could hardly blame her for not being in the best frame of mind.
As she moves off he follows, not really wanting to explain to the random bystanders why he was naked, or why he had great gashes down his back. As they move, he replies quietly. "No, I went past him. Didn't stop running long enough to fight." He looks at her carefully as they move. Eventually she's gonna ask about the man who was in the flat, and Tristain isn't ready to tell her that yet. On the other hand, once they've shaken these idiots off, maybe she'll be willing to answer some of his questions.
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