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The ceiling above Yanisin let out a slow, grating groan, sinking a few slow centimeters lower. It seemed certain enough to hold for the moment, at least, but the security of the room was certainly brought into question by the motion.

And that wasn't the only thing moving in the room; above the fireplace, there was a familiar tinkle of babyish laughter and a wiggle of movement among the dark web. A few small forms seemed to be confering to one another, and a pair of sharp orange eyes watched Yani with intense curiosity from where the baby-sized figures roosted.

The strands, Yani was able to note upon closer inspection, seemed to be almost like a tangle of dark hair, inexplictably attached to the ceiling and wall. The mass covered perhaps a six foot stretch of ceiling corner total- in the darkness of the room, it was difficult to see through the black clumps to the small figures within, even drawing nearer as Yani was.

At his approach, the giggling was shushed among the little figures there. There looked to be three of them up there; the one with the tell-tale eyes remained still, while the other two crawled off through the mass of strands to either side, watching the approaching Fa'e's movements with darker gazes.

This time, Yani got an answer. Unfortunately, it probably wasn't one he wanted.

Jerkily, something fell out of the spiderweb, dropping down immediately into the Fa'e vicinity. It was one of the figures he'd seen up in the tangle; tendrils of hair were wrapped around its limbs, dangling it around Yani's head. The thing- for, though it was the size of a child, even the same in build and general appearence, it could not be defined as any sort of human creature- was painted shockingly pale, the slim bits of light filtered through the dirty windows falling harsh on the white skin. Its eyes were huge and dark, never blinking and crinkled with a terrible grin. It was clothed in scraps of cloth, many different swatches that seemed like they'd been torn from various sources.

But there was one detail, one thing that made this thing not just disturbing, but downright chilling:

It wore patches. Not patches like clothing patches, but patches like skin patches. Or, I should say, fur patches; bits of black fur, skin still attached, stuck onto its arms and body and face. On its cheek, a patch of fur had a few gems stuck to it, brightly colored and all too familiar.

With a too-wide grin, the creature reached out to grab for Yanisin's arm, giggling in a high, mad voice.

The creature gave no resistance other than to swing back nearer to the wall before Yani grabbed at it. It cried out in distress, making a noise comparable to the screech a bat makes when using its sonar. The thing seemed to be made of some sort of soft material, almost like cloth- however, there was no lack for strength as it grabbed out with hands to one of the Fa'e's arms, canvas-like fingers clawed to try and get the best purchase on his flesh.

One of the black patches of fur on its arms slipped off at the movement and plunked to the floor; those things really weren't that well attached, it seemed. Just like they were ripped off of something else, then stuck on the creature's own flesh.

Seeing its webmate in danger, the remaining dark-eyed dropped down in a similar fashion to the first, grabbing out for Yanisin's other arm. This one had the same patches of fur stuck all over its body- but, unlike the first, it had no gem-cheeks. Oh, no. This one had two gauntlets forced over its hands, and one cat-ear over one of its own.

Kia hurried along the path to HQ, occasionally staring backwards over her shoulder regulaly as she hurried along the path to the HQ as if she half expected someone to be following her, ignoring the way the cold air blew around her. Oh she'd dressed for this winter freeze. She'd covered herself from head to foot for this COLD COLD DAY.

So what if the clouds hadn't dropped snow and it was just a thunderstorm? Kia half felt like snow was just lurking up there with the UFOs in the darkness and she was freaking out already enough about the whole 'Dark all the time!' thing. It was going to be a fun Halloween.

At least she was at HQ now. HQ meant warmth, light and friends. And a chance for Kia to pull off all these stupid layers of clothing. She was already tugging off some of the layers when she put her hand on the door and was sucked in.

"...huh?"

Yani was angry, and that was saying something, but he definately wasn't above noticing the nasty black tar material that covered his pale hands. He growled and tried to fling the tattered remains of the baby doll things, but was alarmed when they stuck fiercely to his palms and even more so when suddenly he started to get hauled upwards like a fish on a hook. He started to thrash, his angry replaced with terror.

Until the orange-eyed figure finally talked.

Now he was confused as all hell and scared to boot.

"Dustin?! Is...is that you?"

Such interference was apparently not appreciated by the creature up in the threads. With an enfuriated gurgle of noise, it tried to yank Yanisin up further into the air, as if hoping to somehow draw him out of the reach of the Eygptian Fa'e. This was quite impossible, of course, with the low ceiling; Yani's entire lower section was easily within Kia's reach.

The creature of the hair, however, was not going to give up so easily on its catch.

"daDdY, pLEAsE stAy WitH mE...."

The tangle of hair before the creature parted, all of its own accord- and the face of his "daughter" was at last revealed.

It was gargantuan, grossly mishapen. The voice was coming from a face, a massive face, that was growing straight out of the ceiling corner- threads of flesh and tangled veins sunk into the woodwork above the fireplace, pulsing with malformed life. It was roughly the design of a human face, but it were as if a wax figure held too close to the sun, the skin was sagged and gnarled in many places. The spindly claws that were trying to haul Yanisin up were rooted right beneath the thing's neck, and the eyes- the orange eyes that had lured Yani close- were somehow fastened onto the things' lower lip, staring out at Yanisin even now. Where its own regular eyes should be, there was broken and bleeding flesh and two long clumps of hair, either of which led to the dolls now stuck onto Yani's hands.

The mouth, one might be quick to notice, was more than large enough to accomodate the size of even the adult Fa'e.

If there was anything Kia could do, it was cling, and she did. Even though he was thrashing about like a fish in a net, which was probably very close to what he really was.

She didn't even look at what was dragging him till he'd noticed her. Then Kia screamed as well. What was THAT?! She stared at the sight of the face thing, almost loosing grip of him for a second in her shock.

Then he fainted. Kia blinked several times and gripped tightly again, dragging at him hard down towards the floor, feeling sick to her stomach and forcing herself to swallow bile at the sight of it. But she could throw up later. When they were outside.

"Wake up , Yani, you need to ...I don't know, but don't faint!" She yelled at him as she tugged, wishing she had an extra pair of arms to throw things at the face with.