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Riyo wasn't about to stick around this place. Just like she'd made a beeline for the stairs earlier, she ran as fast as she could to the door after Blade helped her up. That smell. The overwhelming aroma of blood. It was sickening.

As she emerged outside, she gasped for fresh air and leaned up against the building. She quite basically bashed her head up against the side of the inn. That was her mess. She'd caused that mans end. There was no other explanation for it. "Murderer." She spat at herself.

Atticus was right behind Blade as they attempted to make their way out of this place that had earned itself the title of 'Hell'. "Now perhaps you see what I mean." He said quietly to Blade, dusting his tophat off and placing it on his head.

Once Riyo had gotten up and rushed out the building, Blade took a moment to stare at the gore on the ground. As he did, he heard Atticus's voice from somewhere behind. As he recalled the way Riyo had cut down this man, he knew this was definitely not something to brush off so easily.

But right now, he needed to get out and away from this town. And the others there needed to do the same. So quickly, he made his way through the mass of crows and stepped outside.

"Are you all alright?" he asked them all. The thief felt a bit guilty about all of this since the guards were originally after him, and now all these people were dragged into it.

"More may come soon... but if we're lucky, they won't. Luck hasn't really been something that's been around lately."

Just as soon as Mitsu could protest, Yuki was over opening the window. "Not much choice. I can carry you, if you're afraid." He turned and offered a hand to her. Honestly, he'd probably just pick her up anyway even if she refused, but at least this way it had the potential to be less traumatic in the end. "It's better than finding out what all the noise downstairs is about..."

"It'll be alright, Mitsu." Hitsu tried to reassure, stepping over toward Yuki to look out the window. "It's not as far down, we'll make it safely." She'd calmed considerably after being let in, apparently having a closed door between them and the chaos in the lobby helped immensely.

She had accepted his hand, and Yuki tugged Mitsu toward him so that she could follow him out. "Just close your eyes and it'll be over before you know it."

"I can jump, too." Hitsu had said in response to Mitsu's question, "Don't worry about me."

Thankfully, this inn had decent sized windows. It was still a bit of a squeeze for Yuki to fit through, but once he did he balanced himself carefully on the roof that extended from the lower level, reaching to help Mitsu out and lift her carefully. This took several seconds, but just as soon as he held the wolf girl he let his feet slide to the edge of the roof and jumped down as though it was as simple as skipping a couple of stairs. He landed easily on his feet, and set Mitsu on her own feet thereafter. "Not as bad as you thought, was it?"

Hitsu didn't have quite as graceful a time, and nearly fell over the side instead of jumping like she was supposed to. Luckily, she managed to catch her footing right in the nick of time and jumped down as well.

not really paying attention to her surroundings, poke sprinted out the door and into the fresh air and sunshine! However, this was a very, very bad call as she had not realised that at the exact moment she exited the inn, hitsu had jumped (or fell) from the window.

Poke looked to see yuki had somehow got outside, and made the ocnnection at the last second. She looked up, and her mouth made what appeared to be a mix of a bark and a squeak, before she was knocked to the ground.

"aahhh...my baacckkk..." she cried out to no one in particular

Following behind Poke, Neko exited the Inn right behind her but came to a screeching halt when she was flattened by Hitsu exiting out of the window. He started to wonder if this was going to become a reoccurring theme with this group. "Uhh...are you okay?"

(I have no idea where Neko is so...this works he's outside now >.>)

[Yes. Everyone being outside is the most detail that we can manage at this point, I think. =/ Stuff making sense came to a screeching halt several posts before this point. Let's get some form of normalcy back, guys. When you're going to pull stuff like this, unexpected to the characters is fine... Unexpected to the players (or at least the moderators) is not. At least not when we're ALL going to get pulled into it. Be considerate of the other players, please.]

[No awkward apologies or explanations, don't bother. Just don't drag everyone into something again without their consent. At least if we were out in the middle of nowhere the characters not wanting to be involved could more easily see themselves away from the situation. By all means, you can see yourself out of any or all of the dangerous situations I set up in the future, because you'd better believe I'll leave you the opportunity. I can assure you that the same will go for Mitsu and Skye's characters, but I cannot speak for the rest.]

[Yeah. In a nutshell. You don't have to ruin the surprise of your plot twists by giving them away. Go ahead and play them out. Just make sure that others can avoid the result if their characters don't want to or cannot deal with it. A "hey, s**t about to go down, you might want to move" would suffice.]

[Look. I made a long post. Too bad most of it wasn't RP. Lulz. Whatever. Carry on.]

Well, it had been clear when Hitsu had jumped, but that quickly changed while she was already in the air. She barely had the time to give out a startled yelp before she crash landed on top of Poke. Immediately she'd removed herself so that Poke could get up, but sat on the ground a moment herself in confusion. "What happened?" She murmured, looking around dizzily at everyone.

As Blade helped Poke, Yuki helped Hitsu to her feet. He wasn't so calm about the whole ordeal, however. He quickly gave Hitsu a rough inspection, like a distressed parent making sure nothing was broken or damaged. Satisfied that she was fine, if satisfied was an appropriate word to use right now, he ushered her over toward Hitsu while he approached Blade with a venomous stare.

He tried to apologize, and Yuki swiftly raised his hand in an attempt to cut him off. "No. Don't bother. Look, I'm not going to pretend I know what your deal is or who you are. Frankly, I don't give a rat's a**. What I do care about is the well being of my friends and my sister." He pointed an accusing finger at the thief, "If you put any of them in danger again, I'll take you to the authorities myself, intact or otherwise."

Then, he looked up to Poke and Neko. "And you. Try not to make it a habit to run blindly into something that's none of your business." His glare lingered on Neko, but that was for reasons only the two of them would know. "For the love of God, guys, I thought it was stressful enough to think we've got a madman following us to do God-knows-what if he just doesn't want us dead..." If Poke had no idea why he always stressed they needed to keep moving, he could only assume that she would now. "I don't like the idea of being arrested along the way. It really puts a damper on my mood."

Once he'd backed off, he looked toward the door, noting the lack of one in their party. "Where the hell is Riyo? We're getting out of here. Now." Without awaiting an answer, he stepped over to Mitsu and Hitsu. Hitsu was trying to console the girl, who had gotten sick yet again. While his words weren't quite as harshly toned, it was still clear that he was angry. "I'm sorry, Mitsu, but we have to keep moving."