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Jo Harvelle runs on 100 proof attitude power ([personal profile] tobeclosetohim) wrote in [community profile] sixthiterationlogs2016-11-13 07:11 pm

{ raining blood, from a lacerated sky

WHO: Jo Harvelle, a dead elk, and you!
WHERE: In front of The Inn
WHEN: November 13
OPEN TO: Everyone (Especially those in the inn or close enough to hear!)
WARNINGS: Animal Death's w/ Mutilation, Manipulation, Gore, Blood
STATUS: Open


People have been sticking close to the buildings, to each other, to not being out late after dark if they can help it, and even then, almost never alone. There's a charged air to everything, like a shot about to crack, or like they are strung up and held in a never ending loop on that second of shock the moment after the crack sounds, before the body can relax again.

Mapping has slowed to nothing this week, and Jo's among the many who remind people to be more careful when hunting right now. The Village seeming less and less safe with the animals that had appeared in the wide open of the buildings and fountain, with no one seeing anything, which made the dark, closed in shadows of the forest seems even darker and even more closed in.

She's as much not expecting it as expecting it, whens she opens the door, intending to head to the house she's sharing with Kol and Thorfinn, and there's a huge hulking animal form mountained right in front of the path into and out of the Inn. The same path people walked all day to get food, and everything else.

"Fuck," is revulsion for the smell, black and bloody and something else, the sheer size of the body, the still towering form, with its cracked and somehow dangling antlers, before her hand is tightening on the door still in it and she's calling back inside. "We've got another one!"

Jo goes for the knife in her boot even though there hasn't been an attacked attached to one yet, before she's headed down to the huge beast. It looks like the others have all reported in, and gotten written down by her. Ripped apart by teeth and claws, chunks of flesh hanging here and there, but nothing taken, nothing missing. Limbs twisted and contort in impossible ways, pointing toward the door.

The blood everywhere all around it. On the steps. On porch. On the door.

More like it was thrown than like it sprayed in an attack.

The same as the animal that looks like it was dropped -- no, placed -- so far from where it ever might be found in this place. Leaving Jo looking quickly all around there. The whole wide space of the creeping, settling early night dark of this place.
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[personal profile] warriorborn 2016-12-02 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good, I'm glad."

Kate does so much for everyone without asking for any kind of recognition for it. He's glad his small gesture, as frivolous as it might seem to others, has been well-received. It's only too bad the cold weather makes continuing it impossible. Benedict has never experienced seasons in his life, and it's rather difficult to get used to.

She pokes and prods at him until he does as she pleases, and he's more than happy to roll onto his back and shift himself to make space for her. Letting a girl curl up against his side like this is definitely a new experience, but he does it without hesitation, curling his arm around her shoulders and holding her hand across his chest, feeling the warm line of her pressed down his side.

Perhaps at any other time, he'd be blushing and squirming and all too aware of the soft press of her flesh through her clothing, but tonight those concerns seem far away, the hush of the room and the darkness lending a chastity to the gesture that he doesn't even think to break.

He squeezes her lightly in a gentle hug, and closes his eyes. Hopefully the gentle rhythm of her breath and the faint lub-dub of her heart will lull him into sleep and he won't dream of anything at all.