Backdated to the 15th, after Jilly's post

[flickerflash]

[Recently Katie was kidnapped by the Malnosso. The usual story, really. Only she found herself not minding so much, because mostly all they did was shut her in a room with a box of chalk and blackboards and pens and paper and television with all kinds of cartoons, and music, and they told her to do whatever she felt like. The only thing she hated were the shots, and she doesn't know what those were for. But they were meant to be for her own good, so they said. Weird and made no sense.

Today, she finally understands what they were trying to do.

Might have helped, if they weren't who they were.]


[Written]

Dear Jack,

I seem to have forgotten everything, so I'll be home in a few minutes to look under the couch cushions.  It's always the last place you look, isn't it?  Don't worry, I'm still alive.

Love, Silvertoes.


Dear everyone else,

Could the person who gave me a hand the other morning come find me?  I'd like to thank you for saving my life.  If you don't have time, don't worry.  I'll find you instead.

Love

[...screw it.  She leaves it there.  She can't go home yet-- the glamour is newly awakened and she can still feel it spitting and sparking and sometimes dying, and she can't properly control it.  And right now she has a lot to think through.  Not the least of which being she died. 

So she'll be out in the forest until further notice.  Angry and upset and thinking she's going to kill someone for doing this to her, or maybe she'll just give in to the urge to cry instead.  She's only nine.  Going on three hundred.

Someone's paying for this.]


((ooc:  You are more than welcome to stumble across her in the forest; however, keep in mind that if you do, you run the risk of your character being enchanted.  That means seeing the world the way Katie sees it, and that includes seeing all of your echoes and the echoes of others.  For more information, see Katie's permissions post.

...and fill it out while you're there, if you wouldn't mind. |Da

Just to set the date right in everyone's head, this is the same day Ragna is tearing up the forest.))

Comments

[goldenglasses]

[Vash was out in the forest as he tends to do. Nothing like a walk to ease your mind and clear it from the latest experiments. However, then he could have sworn he heard some not so pleasant noises coming from a different area of the forest.

As he went to investigate he was not expecting to run across Katie.]

Katie! I'm not sure you should be out here right now!

[flickerflash]

[She wasn't expecting to run across anyone out here, and good lord she's out here for a reason.. Glamour is still roiling through her, sparking out in fits and starts, and Katie jumps up from the log she's sitting on and...

...takes off in the other direction.]

I'm sorry! You're very right, I'll go home right now!

[BYE VASH.]

[goldenglasses]

K-Kat - w-wait! What- [Wait? Is that even the direction home is in?! Vash wasn't expecting that and takes off after the girl. If there's danger in these woods right now he wouldn't forgive himself if she got hurt.]

1/2

[flickerflash]

Go away!

[But she'll take the decision out of his hands by leaving the fast way, she thinks. So she skips once, twice--]

[flickerflash]

[--and then trips over a tree root with a faintly shocked look on her face and tumbles in a heap.

Well. That's nothing new for a child, really. Though Vash is perceptive enough he might remember Katie has never before this been clumsy at all, in Luceti.]

[goldenglasses]

[In the back of his mind Vash realizes that Katie is usually much more graceful, but the priority to him right now is that a small child just tripped over a root and fell.

He comes skidding to a halt next to her.] Katie! Are you alright?! Are you hurt?!

[Written] /saves this for later

[all7seas]

Dear Little Silvertoes,

Under the cushions or in the treasure trunk. Either or. Come home soon and we'll suss it out.

With all Affectionate Feelings
--Capt. Jack

[Written]

[flickerflash]

Dear Capt. Jack,

Do you think there might be other treasure in the trunk? I'd hate to melt it all by mistake. The mermaids might be cross with you again.

Yours faithfully,

Silvertoes
(Cabin Girl)

[Written]

[all7seas]

If you melt it down we can shape it into anything we like.

Your own captain,

Jack


PS -- The mermaids will always be cross with me, no matter what I do. Especially Marina. It's alright.

[Written]

[flickerflash]

[Long silence. Or at least, a long absence of a reply.]






Are you sure?

[Written]

[all7seas]

As sure as I've been of anything. Where are you? What's wrong?!!?!

[Action]

[bondsprofoundly]

[Cas is generally all over, but then he feels something weird and ends up following the string of strange to its source.

A little girl would two souls, one of which is way too old for her.

Yeah. That sounds like something that requires further investigation, so Cas just zaps right up into her space to take a closer look.]

[Action]

[flickerflash]

[sdklfd

and strange guys teleporting right up into her space are enough to make Katie yelp and fall backward off her log. Then she peers at him over the edge of it with a faintly accusing look.]

Go away.

[No idea who you are, but quarantine is for everyone, as far as she's concerned.]

[Action]

[bondsprofoundly]

Are you possessed?

[Maybe by a ghost, a very old one? Or a minor god or demigod, perhaps. Cas can't think of any other reason why a human would have an extra soul floating around inside it.]

[Action]

[flickerflash]

[Okay so that's an interesting question and Katie narrows her eyes somewhat, but Luceti has always been full of Interesting People.]

Of course I am. I'm possessed by the spirit of grubby overcoats. You should go before he decides to collect yours.

[And she's going to back off a bit to try and keep a safe range.]

[Action]

[bondsprofoundly]

[She's not talking like a spirit.]

No. You're something else.

[Cas doesn't stop her from backing away, but he doesn't stop his intense scrutiny, either. Maybe if he can get a good, working network of the gods around here, he can get closer to finding out where his own is, or why he's even here, for that matter.]

[ written ]

[herotypical]

Katie? Is that you?

[ silvertoes. it must be. ]

[ written ]

[flickerflash]

No.

[That's her first response, too blunt and fast because Katie is too distracted to bother putting any thought into a better lie.]

[ written ]

[herotypical]

I call shenanigans.

[ written ]

[flickerflash]

Shenanigans is me. I think I shall call myself that for the rest of the day.

[ written ]

[herotypical]

It's a good synonym.

Where are you?

[action]

[concasse]

[Guess what, Katie? Sanji too is in the forest, angry and upset and thinking he'd like to kill someone, and though he's not to the point of tears, smoking half his cigarette pack in the span of an hour is a decent substitute.

Come, let us be in fearsome bad moods together]

[action]

[flickerflash]

[Isn't this how we met Katie has learned by now that she can't jump away from sudden encounters, and that means when she hears footsteps this time she just hides. Right behind this tree, yessir. And hopefully whoever Mr Stompy Pants is he'll just keep right on stalking through and she won't cause any extra problems and--

--oh, it's Sanji. She likes Sanji a lot, and she's half tempted to call out, only that's still a bad idea.

...

...Sanji, the tree over yonder is addressing you. It's just a tree, everything's normal.]

What's wrong?

[action]

[concasse]

[My gods you're right. Fitting reunion! ... Well, Sanji has met stranger things than talking trees, but all the same, he puts a halt to his hissy fit and glances up curiously.

That Mystery Tree sounds suspiciously like a little girl he hasn't seen in a while. For that reason, he does this the nice way.]

Maaah, the usual shit. Crazy bad guys and damsels in distress. [Or also titled "Shitty Black Beasts and Lady in a Comatose". Sloooowly approaching that tree] But I'll be alright.

... Katie-chan, is that you?

[action]

[flickerflash]

Oh no, I'm just a tree. A very curious one. [He approaches the tree and Katie backs away from it in attempting to keep the same distance, but as the tree doesn't move with her this pretense fails spectacularly. Curses.] What sort of crazy bad guy? Is it a monster?

[She wonders if it's the same thing she ran into earlier.]