[MINGLE] PLOT: Siren's Call

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: Anywhere
WHEN: August 25-26
OPEN TO: ALL - MINGLE
WARNINGS: Mental manipulation, drowning, death
NOTES: Details here. This post is for EVERYONE, not just the affected. Please make sure and note if your thread is locked for plot purposes.

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It began slowly.

A wisp of song or familiar sound on the breeze swept in from the lake. No source to be found, only the uneasy feeling it had been heard before as it coiled itself steadily inside the minds of the chosen. The sound was a mantra, pulsing soft at first and then louder, growing over days until it seemed to fill the skull, relentless. Come here, the lake whispered, cajoled, shouted. It is cool and quiet beneath the waves.

Come here, it presses now in time with the melody until there is nothing but to blindly follow. The water is calling.

Comments

[zomboligist]

He needs something that'll smack the song right out of his head. Maybe it's old-fashioned, but his eyes brighten when he thinks about the old myths, though he's not about to shove actual wax up there, not when he spends most of his days trying to make sure his ears stay waxless.

"Do you have something we can jam in my ears? Maybe if they're covered, I won't try and take another mid-day soak," he jests, like this is the sort of thing they can already joke about, despite him nearly drowning a few moments ago.

[living_proof]

"Your fingers," I reply, mouth quirking down. I get that he's joking and I understand the impulse, but I am really not there yet.

"Look, why don't you go get the list and I'll stay? You have longer legs anyway, and I have a boyfriend who will pull me out if I go for another dip."

[zomboligist]

He doesn't like that either, but from a self-preservation standpoint, it's probably the better plan. Ravi doesn't say it out loud, but he assumes it's fairly well known that Liv is the stronger of the two of them, will-wise, so he'd best go back and get the list, she can stay.

"Be careful, okay?" he insists, like he's having second thoughts (again). "I really don't want to replace my tiny zombie friend. Placing the small ad would be a nightmare in a place like this."