video | un: andy (cw blood)

[oiorpata]

[ andy appears, barely ten minutes after joric smuggles her not!corpse out of the arena, and she hurries to share what happened without thinking much of it - thus she's looking a little bloodstained but unharmed otherwise. it's spattered obscenely across her neck, with some flecks into her face, remnant of what could be a throat slitting. ]

Don't ask. I found the fucking orb from Amaryllis Grove.

[ she'll grab a towel of sorts and start wiping down. ]

It took over Jial Bryn, of the Daughters of Twilight. I challenged her to a duel for leadership to see why her family kept winning and what might happen, and it turns out she's possessed now or some shit. Recently infected. It's interested in fucking up this world even more.

The good news is the orb thinks I'm dead and can't share its existence with everyone, so we'll have the element of surprise, whatever happens next. It doesn't know we know about it.

[ did the orb murder her? maybe a little bit. ]

Maybe stay away from the shadow of Jial Bryn until we have a plan. They don't fight fair. Do we know anything about her second in command? Her reaction to the challenge was the only differing one.

Comments

[deaddrop]

I'm okay enough. Nothing that won't heal up.

[oiorpata]

My sense of how fast something heals is a little skewed. You're not going to be stranded for too long are you?

[deaddrop]

Don't worry. I've popped up from worse after a day or two.

[which may be a bit of a flippant remark, making light of the seriousness of her injury both now and in the past, but it isn't untrue.]

[oiorpata]

Somehow that's both reassuring and concerning.

[deaddrop]

But not surprising.