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 Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:42 pm
Barth's voice dropped, "What, you think...here?" The crowd of mingling new faces seemed suddenly ominous, and he felt a stab of guilt for letting Calder go off by himself.
He'd said he would protect him, even though...and there had been disappearances, he knew better than anyone, and the campus- why hadn't he been thinking, an event like this was the perfect cover for it.
He flexed his claws.
"I- I wasn't...I hadn't been paying attention. I'll be right back, if you see him, tell him I'm looking for him." He hesitated, and busied himself with the cuff of his shirt, finding Calder's pin and touching it anxiously. Where was he? I need you, Barth thought. Don't be...
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:50 pm
Jericho's expression darkened before glancing back to Barth. It seemed now the demon was getting what he was hinting at here.
"It's possible. We don't trust the new kidsss... We can never be too certain if they're true or false at first glance. There'ss a lot too. We have been watching carefully. No sssigns of danger yet," he said before looking around to try and spy the kelpie.
"We will keep an eye out for him. Hopefully one of us will manage to sspot him."
Then he had a brilliant idea. The dragon took in a deep breath. Then....
"VOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!! CALDER!" he called out.
Losing his mind, he may be, but he certainly wasn't losing his voice.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:58 pm
Whatever Junko had been doing was stopped to just stare at Jericho.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:04 am
It only seemed appropriate that the moment Lilith picked up a nearby questionably delectable sweet from the table that Jericho decided to roar out for the pony. With it Lilith's sweet fell to the floor in some sort of hardly fair trade for making Calder leave in the first place. She mourned the sweet longingly before turning to make sure the pony wasn't anywhere near her. Pony, pony, pony, pony...? Why was everything bad that happened to her the pony's fault? She really wanted that sweet and it seemed the other ones on the table wouldn't suffice.
It also seemed to be some sort of metaphor to explain the entire night perfectly.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:06 am
Oh dear sweet Jack, her ears. Shehk's ears drooped immediately when Jericho started yelling, whirling around to check to make sure something hadn't just started happening. He'd been..protective....so...
It did worry her a bit. She was concerned about him, jackdammit.
"Jericho!" Shehk didn't shout half as loud, rubbing her ears before she moved over to see what was going on. All she knew was that Calder was involved, and it wasn't too long before Shehk had retreated from Riley's posse to see what Jericho was yelling about.
"What in the devil's name are you yelling about?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:11 am
"HUUUUUR!" Came the resounding cry from the bathroom doorway as Christof yanked and pulled and scrambled to drag the Kelpie back into the room. His free hand gave a desperate wave across the room to Jericho, his own eyes scanning for Barth. What in blazes had happened, anyway?
He just... wanted a nice quiet moment to sit down with Amrita and... talk. Ok, not talk but. Hell's Bells.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:24 am
Jericho caught sight of Junko staring at him, and saw Shehk walking up to see what the problem was.
"Barth isss looking for Calder. He seems to be missing," he growled lowly to explain. Soon after he said this, he heard Christof's .... muffled.. cry type thing from somewhere within the vicinity. Quickly scanning the room to try and find where the igor was, he spotted him across the ways. It looked like he had the kelpie with him.
But he was being dragged. Why was Calder being dragged on the floor? Was something wrong with him? The dragon couldn't see Calder's condition too well from where he stood. Regardless, it didn't make sense to him why he would need to be dragged like that unless there was a problem.
"Tiamat'ssss s**t. Ssomething isn't right," he snarled before flaring his wings out and looking around, trying to find signs of other potential problems. Right now he was thinking that the kelpie had been attacked. Nevermind that no one heard any sounds of struggle.
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:40 am
If Calder had wanted to crawl into his stall and hide before, he certainly did now. The ONE time he just wanted to be antisocial and alone, when he didn't want to mingle and talk to everyone, EVERYONE wanted to find him. Even Christof was finding himself with some sort of duty to get him out to the party when he was usually the grumpy one overworking or having to be pushed into the group. WHY couldn't his friend be that sort of Igor tonight? Why couldn't Christof just call him stupid and walk off? Instead, he was straining himself to not be dragged out, and then he heard his name.
VERY JACKIN LOULDLY.
He looked off to his broken stall, his hide away, and reached out for it. He missed it, and it's lock, but everything was just getting worse. He caught Christof waving and calling out to them, and he tired more to pull himself away. He couldn't go out there. He didn't want to go. He didn't want to see or be seen!!! He just wanted to crawl somewhere and vanish!! Couldn't everyone just let him suffer in peace?!!
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:45 am
Barth flinched at the shout, but didn't correct Jericho. If Hunters were here, they might not have a lot of time, and he couldn't move quickly enough to...well, to do anything, really. But-
"Christof?" Barth asked, turning that direction and heading towards him slowly. "You found him? What's the matter, was he attacked? ...Calder? Are you...?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:54 am
Christof dropped the kelpie, hands freed to sign (a bit irritably), "Made-mess-of-self. Was-hiding. Upset. What-did-you-do, Master?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:00 am
"Oh thank hell. I thought...m-me? I..." Barth's eyes flickered towards the buffet table. Lilith's dress was easy to pick out, even in the dim, crowded ballroom.
"Lilith stopped by. We err, talked some."
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:13 am
Lower half dropped, Calder curled at the sound of the demon approaching, and covered his head a moment, remembering about his hair. The roses were cut out, but so was a lot of it. He hadn't had a chance to even look at it in the mirror.
But then what he heard Barth say struck a chord. What was the matter? WHAT WAS THE MATTER??!!
Pushing himself up, he gripped his chest as he glared up at the boil. His hair was - well...lopsided, angled, sticking out, and patchy in parts. Then he just kept talking....and now that he couldn't hide, and now that there as no reason to run to impress him, he was just left badly hurt.
And that's when his hand whipped back and shot through the air with a SLAP that almost matched the volume of Jericho's outburst.
"TALKED? You did MORE than just TALK!" How could he? How could he come here and pretend he was concerned after that he did?!
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iStoleYurVamps
iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:33 am
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:35 am
Barth just looked at Calder in extreme bafflement, shocked from the slap and emotionally reeling.
"Well...yes- we- Calder, you know about all that. I explained it to you, I wasn't expecting her here, this is the first I've seen of her. It's been since Halloween. I was just...with the flowers, for the holiday. ...I didn't think she wanted anything to do with me."
He reached tentatively towards the place the roses had been, where the hair looked tortured and choppy.
"When did you...?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:03 am
It appeared time was up, but at least Astra had gotten to meet someone she had seen before. Following Thanatos over to the main event, she nodded to his question. "Of course!" She replied, returning the smile before turning at little red at his formalities. "see you around, Thanatos" Watching him venture off, she decided to make her own way to the games area, itching to have another go at that whack a hunter game.
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