Re: Peiquok Town Hall
Cat
Griffen snorts, then looks across the way to the refreshments table. "If your majesty would prefer, I'm going to go get some chow. Stay here if you want."
He pauses as the lights in the room flicker momentarily, scowl apparent clearly even through his trimmed beard.
Melissa and Morgan
Rosie gets a little rosy in the cheeks as Melissa begins to question her. "No, not exactly. Not like this. I've heard stories but..." she pauses as the lights flicker, revealing how dark it can get in the hall as night seems to be drawing on. Swallowing, she glances around the room, looking at all those others trapped with her. When she doesn't seem to find what she's looking for, she tells the two women, "I don't think that anybody here is gonna be able to help us..." she mutters absently, then more clearly, "I just have my grandfather's stories to go off of, and half of what he used to tell me was chaff, you know?"
When Melissa asks Rosie about her own experiences, she looks to the floor, thinking long and hard. "Before I met Morgan," she begins, "a few minutes before, actually." She chews on her lips and thinks. "I just got this awful feeling that I'd gotten sucked up and entombed by something. I think if I hadn't been in the middle of the open hall I'd be a lot worse for wear, but I just..." she shrugs, "shrugged it off at first."
Kaci, Shiva and Leianna
As the three women chat (or rather, as Kaci and Leianna chat and Shiva seems to give the good approximation of a hellish glare), they are briefly interrupted by the flickering of lights. Somewhere nearby -- there are a lot of people seated near the table that bears food and drink, after all, -- they can each hear someone mutter, "great, here we go," as they notice several soldiers heading for the side door...
Jen
Jen has a few hours to rest somewhat peacefully... visions of snakemen and strange sensations begin to fade from mind as she rests, but as the night begins to draw on, she's wakened by the flickering of lights. A child begins to whimper in a cot against the wall while his mother shushes him, and then two soldiers bring in another woman, slightly older than Jen, who is wailing at the top of her lungs. "Don't touch me!" she shrieks as they wrestle to calm her down. "Leave me alone! They're after me! They're after everybody!"
Buster
The blonde catches a lot of interesting little tidbits. Two families nearby -- a mother and two twin sisters, as well as a father and mother with their son -- are deep in conversation, nearly huddled together for all that they're intent on one another's words. Several soldiers are mulling through the crowd, either to comfort them or to gain information. A boy of seven or eight is wandering through as well and looking for his mother, who is apparently one of those who have disappeared.
As he watches for someone to come by to talk with, Buster sees the lights flicker briefly. His proximity to one of the windows allows him to hear what might be gunshots and a noise... much like what Cara described earlier. The howl is not close, but it sounds pretty unearthly.
Cara
As Cara looks for someone to speak with, she encounters a group of soldiers heading back outside. The lights flicker, and in the moment that they return, she sees that one of them stumbles slightly, head drooping for a moment before she curses and regains her bearings. The three of them stop altogether when she stumbles again... none of them look happy, and none of them seem to notice Cara heading their way.
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