The Warped (2nd Party)

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance was relieved when the town was finally in sight. However when Moon had taken off that had changed. She knew the danger that they had to get around. When Mortis went after her and said what she did she couldn't help but to scowl at her. "Well excuse me for being such a hindrance to your team! At least my summons didn't attack our allies!" she spat back at her as she started to chase after Moon as well. She felt it was uncalled for to attack her like that, it's not like she was a master of the animal kingdom all of a sudden. Her bag of meat was weighing her down a lot so she couldn't keep up. She took a chunk of the meat and ditched the bag to catch up. Giving it her all she managed to jump onto Moon, she knew she didn't like it but it was for her own good. Hopefully with the meat she had she wouldn't care too much.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid looked down at Anon when Max asked to borrow it for the innkeeper. "What could my book do better then your knives couldn't?" When Moon took off and Mortis and Constance started yelling at each other, Macid just kept walking toward town, not paying any heed to their bickering or to the danger that Moon could have put them in. Macid then began talking out loud to himself. "Its better for them to let it out now than when we're inside the town. Not that it matters what happens to me anyway. Why should I be concerned with what happens to me here? Its not like there's anyone waiting for me back home, if I can even call it that. There's no point." He didn't care if they heard him, or if anyone did for that matter. He simply did not care about this world anymore.

[serpington]

max stayed with macid, thinking it best not to get in the way of either of the two women. "well knocking out the guy for starters. do you see me being able to get a good swing out of ramsey that will knock someone out?" he smiled he lissened quietly to macid and his mood instantly droped. "wow, your life must have sucked....alot. if we ever make it out of this, you could stop by my place if you wanted to....see if we can prevent you getting anymore of those scars on your wrists." he looked at macid calmly, grabbing constances bag off the ground as he passed it.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon grunted in her little high-pitched voice, as Constance's pounce stopped her, making her fall on her belly. Suddenly, what Mortis said to her finally caught up and she turned her head around, seeing the meat and bread. She squeaked and jumped up, pretty much flipping Constance off of her, and ran straight for Mortis, mouth wide open and ready to chomp down on the munchies that Mortis offered.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

"My mistake to your four!" Mortis shot back. She only stopped focusing on being angry at Constance when Moon flipped her off. She didn't bother to check to see if the cat was okay, in fact, she thought it was somewhat funny that she got flipped off of the dragon, but she didn't laugh or show it because she knew it would even further the argument. The chameleon only took the bread and meat and gave it to Moon, as  she promised. She looked at Moon as she ate the food, "You can't go rushing into things like that or we could get into big trouble, Moon." She wasn't exactly scolding the dragon, but she was concerned. She rubbed the dragon on the top of the head, then turned to try at catch up with the other so that they would wait for everyone else.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance yelped as she was thrown off Moon and landed on the ground with a thud. She let loose a swear as she laid there defeated. She thought more at Mortis being sore at her for several reasons now. "I'd like to see her survive without my map. My dragon. And MY animals. WHOOPDIE ******* DOO! SHE CAN GO INVISIBLE! *****...******* ridiculous...I can at least hunt with my animals. What can she do with her monsters?! Blow up buildings with lawn gnomes?!" she continued to think as she got up, dusting herself off. She decided to head back for her bag, as she did she saw that Max had scooped it up to carry. "Max..." she sighed. "That thing is heavy, you shouldn't be carrying it in your condition." she continued as she relieved him of the bag. "Thanks though." Her tone, despite being upset with Mortis, was calm and sincere; almost motherly. Without saying anything she started off towards the East of the town to find the place they needed to find. Her monkey swung in the trees above, following her but keeping it's distance sensing an anger in Constance.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid was caught off guard when Max mentioned his wrists. He didn't think anyone saw his scars, but remembered how often he rubbed them. He wanted to say something to Max about his wrists, but didn't know what to say, or if he could say it and not burst into tears. He hugged his book tighter as he kept walking towards the east to where the secret entrance was supposed to be. Tears began to well up in his eyes as he tried to look for the three rocks. He didn't want to let the others know he was crying, so he let his eyes and nose run, trying not to make a sound to alert the others.

[serpington]

max looked at constance and smiled. "just cos i shouldn't doesn't mean i can't." he joked hapily before she turned away. he cought upto  macid and walked next to him quietly and looked over, he could see macid crying quietly and felt bad. "hay, constance, mortis, you two go on ahead, the innkeper shouldn't be as inclined to attack two mostly unarmed women. macid and i'll wait just out here with moon if you want, and you could send your monkey to get us once you've spoken to the innkeeper. sound like a plan?"

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon ate the food happily, despite it being cold already. She cooed as she finished eating and gulped it all down. Moon then followed along with the others east of the city, towards where the rock garden was. As she made her way over to where Macid and Max were, she walked right through the illusion rock and fell backwards right down the stairs, landing on her back. Moon sat up, but couldn't do much else as she was dazed from the fall.

[Goblin Cat 😸]

Mortis looked back behind her when Max suggested something. "I think we might all need to go in together. He may think it suspicious if you both stay out here. He might think we're plotting or something. And according to Filadus, that'll cost us our heads and I rather like my head. I'm sure you all feel the same about yours." She watched Moon go through the illusion, but waited outside for the others to come to a conclusion. "I mean, we could do that if you want, but I'd rather not chance it." As she said that, she noticed Macid crying. She wanted to do something to comfort him, but she knew that she couldn't. "Look, all we have to do is get this room for tonight... We'll be fine, we can get supplies, we'll be good to go." She sighed outwardly, now speaking to the entire group, though it was more directed towards Macid than anyone else. "Look, I know we're all at wits end and we're tired... We all are, whether we want to admit it or not. Being thrown into this situation with a bunch of strangers and a lack of knowledge is scary... But we need to go in here and get this done. Maybe we can actually rest without having to worry about looking out for caravans tonight, we can get together and get to know each other so we're not all confused and upset and eat some good food." At this point she wasn't sure how much she was talking out of her ass and how much she meant, but she felt as if something needed to be said to make them all feel better. At the very least so they could cooperate and make this one thing work.

[Srgntcuddles]

Constance listened to Mortis' pep talk before heading after Moon. "I think we should make sure our skeptical friend in question won't make lunch meat out of Moon..." she said as she walked towards the rock illusion. However her concern for Moon outweighed her cautiousness and she took a step the wrong way and tumbled down the stairs to land next to Moon with a thud. Luckily her bag fell off and didn't crush her or it might have done some damage. Her monkey was smart enough not to walk blindly into the rock and just stood outside.

[Ares the Ram]

Macid could barely keep his composure. He knew the others could see him crying but still tried to act like he wasn't. As he listened to Mortis talk about how they should just get a room and figure everything else out later, he started to feel slightly better, but not much.  He just wanted to go to bed and never wake up. He walked to the rock illusion and sat down. Carefully prodding his feet in, he found the stairs and carefully made his way down to where Constance and Moon were sitting. Part of him wanted to help them up, but the other part just didn't care at the moment and stood there waiting for the others.

[serpington]

max walked past mortis smiling lightly. "i hope everything goes alright, or this little stop could be close to our graves. just cos your on the list of ones they want alive, don't gamble with our lives to save your own." he continued walking and waited untill macid had gone inside before slowly following him. once he reached the bottom he held out a hand for constance to grab and looked over to macid. "you going to be ok? we can talk about it later if you want."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Moon finally shook herself out of it and got up. She nudged at Constance to get up, and finally gave up, taking the lead. It wasn't hard, since there was only one way to go. At the other end, there was another door, and she pushed it open with her head, since it was a trap-door-like entrance. Immediately, she was met with spears, and she quickly ran in between two of the men and raised her belly, and Filadius' image popped up, "Hold it!" The men pointed their spears over and one spoke up, "Lord Filadius?" "Please calm down. This dragon is my pet, and the children coming up from the path are the real Destined Ones. Please restrain yourselves."

[Goblin Cat 😸]

The chameleon followed in after the others, somewhat scowling given the group was starting to get a little unruly with their comments. She wasn't gambling with anyone's life, she had honestly been so scatterbrained about the whole affair that she had forgotten they didn't want her dead. She was more focused on surviving to worry about her temporary immunity to death. As she arrived at the back of the group, she decided to clear the air, "I'm not gambling with anyone's life. I don't care if they want me alive, do you think I want to be caught? And besides, I wouldn't do something knowing it would get one of you killed. Why do you think I've been getting so annoyed when we can't stay out of sight?" Mortis crossed her arms, still insulted by Max's comment. "Even if I were to do that, getting you killed wouldn't save me." She pushed past the others, going after Moon. When she entered the room, she had caught the end of Filadius explaining that they were the 'Destined Ones.' The only thing she could do at this point is stand with Moon and wait for judgement, so she didn't say anything.