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School Grounds [Tuesday, Early Evening]

Having her day kicked off being presented with her very own squalling droid baby was hardly a fortuitous start of anything as far as Effy was concerned, and being cooped up indoors (or anywhere she could be found to have it handed back to her) somehow wasn't an option that appealed.

The fog out here might be creepy and unnatural, but then, to a certain extent so was she. Anyway, there was something about the atmosphere of it that intrigued her even while it gave her shivers, and so she'd taken herself for a bit of a walk in the grey and quickly fading light. Wasn't intending on staying out much after dark, because even she'd seen a few good zombie flicks, but until then she might as well make the most of a little fresh air.

Fresh, heavily fogged air.

[[Expecting one, buuuut it can be open before that, I suppose!]]

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Leda was full of mixed feelings about life, the universe, and everything. And for some reason she wasn't creeped out by the fog at all. So she decided to go for a walk and maybe clear her head.

Baaaaad timing.

Effy, half lost in her own world took a moment to even realise there was anyone else out here, and spun quickly when she caught movement in the corner of her eye. Not completely unaffected by the creepifying nature of that curling fog, no.

She wouldn't admit it, but did let out a short breath of relief to see Leda, and tipped her head in a sort of greeting. For the moment, she saw nothing out of the ordinary.

"Nice evening for it," she added dryly after a moment, pulling back her composure. Just lovely wasn't it?

Edited 2010-03-23 21:14 (UTC)

"Hey Effy. Yeah it's like something out of that old soap about the big dark, shadowy house on the hill."

Her one concession to the actual spookiness of the evening was to move closer to Effy.

Yeah, Effy had no idea what soap she might be referring to, and Leda got her response in a non-committal shrug. Not really a big one for pop culture, sadly.

"Feel like we should be able to touch it," she commented stretching her hand out as if to test that theory. It was so thick, and the way it hung in the air.

"What's that they used to say Faye? So thick you could cut it with a knife?" She swished her hand through the air, watching the fog swirl around from the motion.

Closer still, since it was spooky, and now she was remembering being afraid of the woods when she'd first arrived. Safety in numbers right?

You would think that, but as the thickened, unnatural fog reformed just as it had been before, everything seemed to shift, and Leda's sudden movement didn't help any.

Something wasn't right, and the tendrils of fear and confusion were fast starting to snake their way into her mind and take hold.

The shapes she was seeing now didn't fit with what she'd seen even a few moments before and she quickly recoiled, struggling to refocus the misshapen monstrous image into something that made sense again. Into Leda.

"That's wrong." Because saying it and shaking her head was sure to help her force her vision back to rights. It had to.

"What?" Leda asked, looking back over her shoulder to see what had frightened Effy. She saw nothing, but heard several noises that could have been anything.

"Effy what's wrong?" she asked anxiously, stepping even closer, her side to the girl, looking alternately at her and into the fog.

Stepping closer only threw her off more and she shook her head harder as the thing loomed over her, all unnatural limbs. Inhuman, like they'd just lumped a few pieces of anything together and tried to make it work.

"You!" The words were beginning into indistinct snarls, but before that she pulled together enough to understand. It. That couldn't be a who.

Effy threw out a hand, as if to ward the monster she could see back and away from her.

Leda didn't get it. But the noises around them were getting louder. Did Effy know what was going on? A tiny glimmer of the leader Leda used to be remained. Enough that she reached for the girl's arm to steer her towards the dorms.

"Get back inside!" she said.

Words there lost all sense, jumbled into a harsh growl the bubbled up from one of the mouths. Fuck, there should not be multiples in that sentence.

The hand that grabbed her didn't match with anything she saw or heard, and in her confusion Effy lashed out, trying to get it to let go, the spike of fear overriding any reasonable thought.

The sounds only made it worse, crowding in her head and her hands went to her temples, as she tried to move away. Normally her 'flight' response would've kicked in, but everything was foggy, including her mind and it tinted any sensible reflexes she'd normally follow.

Leda stumbled back, shocked. "What the hell, Nell?" What were the odds that it would not be Leda who was hallucinating? Yet, anyway.

She ran up to Effy, thinking...what? Again try to get her to go back to the dorms? Shake some sense into her? Leda no longer knew.

But Leda was starting to freak out herself.

It suddenly seemed to occur to her that Leda was gone, and she glanced around her in sudden panic. The one other person was gone, and she had no way of defending herself, and this thing... It kept coming and grabbing.

"Leda?" Effy struggled, stumbling backwards to try and get away as she called for the other girl, not realising she was right in front of her.

"What Effy, what?"

Wait, Effy's teeth didn't used to be that pointy did they.

"Wha...you're not Effy!" She probably should have run. But instead she went to grab the thing with both hands. "What are you? What'd you do with Effy!" The thing's face began to shift, growing scales, becoming reptilian.

Running was sensible, and probably what Effy should've done a few minutes ago. It was only really hitting her now... and now she was being restrained and shouting for Leda, and trying to pull free only caused her to trip for real and fall hard.

Leda fell with her, not expecting this thing to lose it's balance like that. Not a very effective monster if it could be shoved by li'l old her.

"Where's Effy?!" she shouted, trying to hold it down. Maybe she should call for help.

Being pinned did not help Effy's freakout, and she struggled under Leda's hands, trying to get free, to reach for anything to pull herself away, or use to get this thing off her.

Finding nothing she tried bringing her knee up to try and kick the thing off her so she could move.

Leda was not really made for combat these days. Among other things, her vices had sapped her of a lot of her strength. She fell to the side, grunting with the impact of the monster's foot.

That gave Effy all the opening she needed to grapple further out for anything she could use to defend herself. Not fussy at this point. Hardly a fighter herself, but she when it came to what she thought was her life, she'd fight.

It was with some relief she closed her fingers around something hard. A rock large enough to do some damage and maybe get her out of this nightmare. Didn't really think much about finesse as she grasped at it desperately, smacking it into whatever part of the thing she could reach.

Which happened to be Leda's head. Pain flared up in her skull as the rock struck it, and her vision went white.

"Fu-"

As the thing collapsed, Effy scrambled backwards to try and get away, dropping the rock like it was hot. "... Shit."

The image of it blurred, almost reshaping into something human before it merged back into a mass of limbs and body parts that shouldn't have been put together, but had.

This would be about the point for her to be getting the fuck out of here and away from that thing while it was down. Flight response firmly in gear now.

The "thing" wasn't getting up any time soon. Victory, they name is Effy.

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