flickerflash | Backdated to the 15th, after Jilly's post

[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.))

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[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.]

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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.]

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.]

[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.]

[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.]

It's rude to talk about someone like a something, you know. [As he doesn't follow her, Katie stops at a reasonable distance, trying to keep her glamour held close.] Anyway, I'm perfectly safe to be around so you should probably just go home.

You're trying to hide yourself...? [Cas isn't positive, but he thinks she is.] Your powers are unreliable. Are you a god?

[...wow, Castiel, you're kind of blunt for an adult.]

Yes. I've been a god for centuries. Will you go away now?

Why do you want me to leave? [Cas is just that bad at reading the atmosphere in a room. Really.]

Because--

[Because she doesn't want people running around crazy for the next few days. It's dangerous and all sorts of bad for you, even if you can just teleport.

Can't say that, of course. She scowls.]

Because I'm not very sociable!

[Oh, yes, of course. Castiel understands that very well, so he nods along. He gets it.]

Perhaps you should make yourself less noticeable. [To, y'know, things with heightened senses and sight and all. Just some friendly advice for a fellow non-friendly.]

But I'm out in the middle of a very crowded shopping mall. How on earth can I manage that?

[Pooka logic. Yes.]

[dude what]

You're deep in the forest.

[this is not a shopping mall]

That's what they want you to think.

[Your overwhelming blunt disbelief i sjust plain rude, Castiel. Also, she's backing up another step.]

You're most likely correct, [Castiel agrees, because he can't deny the possibility that this place is supernaturally manufactured. Not with all the "NOT REAL" vibes floating around in the air in this place.

She keeps backing up though. People do that when they feel threatened. Well, it doesn't matter; he's investigated, and he's satisfied that she's not dangerous. He'll just go with a sound of wind and flapping cloth.]

[Hey she is too dangerous! Just... in a woobie kind of way okay. Katie blinks as he vanishes, but largely she just feels relief. She'll apologise later. Maybe.]

Backdated to the 15th, after Jilly's post

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