Timi's Heart

[dramatispersonae]

*you find yourselves crowded together on a rock ledge in the middle of a dense forest, partway up a mountain. there is snow on the scattered boulders and pines around you; it is bitterly cold. the sky is filled with steely clouds, and hard wind gusts at intervals, threatening to knock you over.

on another ledge further up, if you care to climb to it, is a mass of sticks and twigs--an old, gigantic nest. beyond that, a stretch of bare rock leads up to the distant mountain peak.

there are also small pawprints threading a precarious, narrow trail downward, through the snowed-in trees.*

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Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*you can't move.

--there's a gust of wind. sharp, invisible claws sink into your shoulders.*

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[Cries out, fangs very very visible.]

—Aaah!

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

[something VERY WARM is approaching. CLAWIN' HIS WAY UP TO YOU to press his hands against where yours are stuck to the rock, tsssst ]

C-come on! Come on!

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[Okay. That scream. Is now pretty much animalistic. Since he can't even think to bite it back.]

Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*the invisibeast is wrenching you free of the rock. you leave the skin off your palms behind. now you are dangling in thin air.

WHAT DO YOU DO, RIN? WHAT DO YOU DO.*

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

[ajsf;a OH NO KNIGHT]

What the hell! Stop! [reaches out to try to grab him and slides, scrabbling against the cliff face

...THE NEST IS BELOW US MAYBE I CAN JUMP FOR HIM AND CRASH DOWN, I'LL LIVE

BUT I'D LEAVE VALIANT HERE

FUCK]

Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*you grab his foot!! the invisibeast tugs hard against you--it's terribly strong--and screams again.*

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

[FLARES UP AND ROARS AT WHATEVER THE HELL IT IS!!]

Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! IT WRENCHES.

. . . now Zero is dangling and you are hanging from his foot, great job*

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

--Fuck! Gah!! [STARES DOWN

OH GOD THAT'S HIGH]

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[And here is where we scramble for enough wits to try to reach for gun holster, yes.]

Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*if you can reach it with your shoulders in burning pain then sure*

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[Probably. It definitely hurts like a bitch though and there will be more screaming. T-Trying to point it upwards.]

Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*you can do that--only now it's pulled you and Rin away from the rock.*

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[Oh hells. Of course! Noticing that just as he's about to pull the trigger.]

Turquoise!

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

YEAH?

Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*better talk fast it's wheeling away from the rock*

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

Damn it! I can shoot this thing, but I have no idea about the drop.

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

Shoot it!

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

Shit!

[DOES SO.]

Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*BLAM!

it doesn't drop you, but it rocks crazily in the air with a scream. hot animal blood drips down on you both.*

Re: [pick your path]

[hunting]

[Trying to blink that out of his eyes and being very very glad it's not human.]

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

[OH NOO his claws dig into zero's leg where he is trying to keep his grip, going very quiet in TERROR]

Re: [pick your path]

[reachforthesky]

*it careens down to the nest and drops you into it, dripping blood all over the eggshells and twigs.*

Re: [pick your path]

[intheblueblazes]

[DROPPED. fffughgn]