[PRP] Like a Smoking Gun (Hollandaise & False)

[The Semblance of Unity]

Hollandaise wandered the edge of the forest in a daydreaming haze. The cold made her feel sleepy a lot, and slow, and she had previously wondered if this was the normal amount of deliberating she was supposed to be. Her toes dug into the ground and she stared at them as she considered her options.

There were no more classes for her today (she'd been trying to be good and attend them regularly - at least they were warm), so she could go bake, or go to town, or sleep, or bother Chaya. The latter two were most appealing. Hollandaise hummed creakily. Chaya, she thought, might be busy - she wasn't quite yet to the point of just appearing at the door to his room like some bit of tumbleweed blown his way. She yawned and tucked a strand of hair back into her braid.

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[Miliardo Kason]

s**t s**t s**t s**t!

Why was it still following him!? Why couldn't he lose it!?

Bursting through the tree line False and sharpie came sprinting towards Hollandaise looking like they had just run a mile, and worse yet it looked like they had no intention of stopping at first.

"Holly!"

The voice was slightly panicked as the reaper stumbled to halt, or rather slammed into the poor ghoul tumbling and sending them both into the dirt as Sharpie finally caught up hopping circles around them both.

"Miss Holly miss Holly! Good timing False has something-"

"It's not amazing I swear it's going to eat us!" He stumbled back to his feet grabbing for Holly's hand, "Get up hurry!"

Something in the woods made a very loud growling sound.

The Semblance of Unity

 

[The Semblance of Unity]

Hollandaise had time to blink very slowly before she was toppled into the dirt. There was not even time for a single, creaking cry to pass her lips before Sharpie and False (why were they here?) were chattering at her. She let herself be pulled up without must resistance, her free hand automatically reach up to pat at her leaves. None were missing or damaged, but the reflexive 'pat' was a habit she would never shake. Finally, she spoke.

"What... what is eating you?" She looked critically at False and, seeing nothing with teeth attached to him, frowned. Her brain turned in slow circles.

miliardo kason

 

[Miliardo Kason]

The duo where indeed panicked getting Holly up on her feet and oriented. False even reached out to dust the dirt away from a few leaves as she patted down before glancing towards the woods a loud growling cry sending mini pets scurrying away.

"Not what is. What will. Or is trying." He glanced past her again hissing, "We need to go. Now. Right out here it can find us, it'll have no problem getting us." He pointed to the trees. "We need to go BACK into the woods but AWAY from IT."

Sharpie meanwhile was bouncing around their feet, "Better go fast its getting closer c'mon!"

False started to move along the edge of the tree line looking back at Holly, "Well are you coming or not!?"

The Semblance of Unity

 

[The Semblance of Unity]

Hollandaise flinched away from his hands, but before she could ask him politely to not touch her leaves, he was done. She shivered, feeling uncomfortable. :Why are we going into the forest - should we not return to the dorms?" She followed after them simply because it did not occur to her not to. Their urgency was distressing and the deep rumble from the woods made her ears twitch.

"What is behind you?" It seemed as though, finally, Hollandaise was speeding up a bit in her thoughts.

miliardo kason

 

[Miliardo Kason]

False looked to the dorms then the tree line again biting at his lip a bit as she made her suggestion but he still kept moving the woods on his right the dorms to his left, across a large open area....

"Something big. Looked like Sharpie but bigger"

Sharpe nodded a bit as he scampered after False, "Giant cat! Huge teeth! Sounds hungry..."

In the woods their was another growl.

Sharpie paused falling into step with Holly, "Faaaaalse maybe Holly is right it can't fit into the dorms right?"

The Semblance of Unity

 

[The Semblance of Unity]

"A large feline? How fascinating!" Hollandaise easily kept pace with the boils. Her race was built for skittering between shadows and, while she could not keep up such a pace, she could meet and surpass it in short bursts. She looked deeper into the woods, hoping to catch a glimpse of the snarling beast.

What did False do? "I think the dorms shall be our best bet. My room, not yours. The animal may track your scent to your room." And still, a sense of true urgency did not wash over her. It was strange.

miliardo kason

 

[Miliardo Kason]

"Very big. Bigger then us. Not safe not safe at all." The only thing False had going for him was long legs and even then his tendency for robes and jackets left his movement slightly hindered as he ran. The idea crossed his mind to rip or burn the robes, but he hadn't really thought about it much given the whole run very fast now nature of the situation.

"Fine! Dorms! Go!" He cut to the side sprinting towards the building Sharpie himself shifting into a blur of ink as the cat cut to the side splashing into a puddle and leaping back out again to change directions. "Yaaaay! Gona see Holly's room again!"

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[The Semblance of Unity]

Hollandaise carefully did not let her path intersect Sharpie's. She liked her dress the color it was, a pale seafoam green, and without cat ink. When False veered off, she followed, pulling ahead of him. It had been a while since she had run like this, even if it was being pursued instead of in pursuit. Hollandaise much preferred the latter, especially in a dark forest. Sometimes she pretended the forest was hers alone and she was like some god come to stalk its shadows. Other times, Hollandaise knew she was an interloper, not in her own forest, a guest allowed only so long as she toed some invisible line.

She glanced over her shoulder and caught a glimpse of something large hovering at the edge of the forest. "We need to become more quickly!" Snapping her hand out, she caught False's wrist and tried to jerk him forward. They were so close... sort of.

miliardo kason

 

[Miliardo Kason]

Thankfully Sharpie did not alter his path, pray, Holly, that he didn't alter it any further! As for the reaper and cat they wandered the forest ofr what ever plants and herbs they sought. Sometimes it was for fresh soil, Holly would be happy to know the plant she had gifted him had been pruned and maintained and now had a little sibling growing in another pot.

When Holly shifted to grab False he practically stumbled over, honestly she had been the flightiest thing. Even on critter. Yet she just snatched his wrist and tugged him along. "There is a limit to how quickly I can run in these clothes!"

Sharpie only cackled, "Really of all times?"

"Dammi't cat!" He stalled only for a moment to fail a kick at the familiar as the feline bolted ahead for the dorm doors just as something crashed out from the woods with a roar.

The Semblance of Unity

 

[The Semblance of Unity]

Hollandaise was thinking less about proximity and more about survival. It would not be entirely nice of her to let False fall to the rather dubious attentions of whatever chased him. "Perhaps a change in attire should be considered if you often make things perturbed enough to give chase," she glanced back, once, eyes widening. "I suggest pants or a shortened version of your robe."

She swallowed a creaky growl at False pausing to kick out at Sharpie. Now was not the time. "What did you even do to incur such wrath?"

miliardo Kason

 

[Miliardo Kason]

"Typically I like to plan the running on my terms and with more things in the way between me and what wants to kill me." He scoffed a bit, "I'm not wearing a kilt or a skirt, hardly suits the look.

Still Sharpie dodged, False stumbled, and the run continued. The reaper finally catching up to Holly as they bolted towards the doors just as a large leopard burst from the trees letting out another roar.

"HOLLYGETTHEDOOR!"

The Semblance of Unity

 

[The Semblance of Unity]

Hollandaise very nearly rolled her eyes. Of course no person planned on running, that was why it was important! "A robe would not suit you very well dead, False." She flung open the door at this moment and sprinted inside.

"Third floor, seventh room," she called out, deftly avoiding a collision with some hapless new students.

miliardo kason

 

[Miliardo Kason]

Go on, roll those pretty little eyes and False would roll his back. As a mater of fact he did at the whole dead comment. "Mind you, we're both going to be snack time if we don't make it!" This was of course a false statement from, well, False. Since Holly just busted down the doors.

Where Holly dodged False crashed through shoving a few aside as Sharpie bounced across their fallen forms leaving only four perfect little paw marks on those he bounced across.

Other students ran screaming because a large saber toothed cat was trying to ram its way through the doors to no avail before sprinting around the side of the building.

"I think we lost it..."

"It' still outside, I smell it."

False made a grim face as he stumbled towards Holly's room. "We should be safe in here till it loses interest at least."

The Semblance of Unity

 

[The Semblance of Unity]

She creaked, distressed that they had knocked over so many students. She was the monster dorm's RA, for creepiness' sake! Huffing, she turned around and crossed her arms in front of her door, not opening it.

"Now what shall we do?"

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