From the Inside [solo]

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Prudence
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From the Inside [solo]

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The redheaded killer had spent the better part of an hour or so now arguing with her mini-vamp through text messaging. At first, her responses were frustrated with tinges of anger; the two emotional states Prudence knew well and seemed to only recognize or admit she was capable of feeling. But as their arguing continued, any other emotions or feelings Prudence had been trying to understand and categorize from the past two weeks or so started to slowly dwindle and even the two emotions Prudence showed a lot vanished towards the end of their conversation.
Prudence: I do not accept any olive branches without knowing what I am getting before hand. I am not the stereotypical dumb killer ya hear about. So, CC what is it ya want so we can move the **** on or just go our own ways?

Cinnamon Cherrywhip: "You ******* turned me without asking this many questions!" And she thought to herself that the woman seemed fairly dumb so far, but didn't type it out. "I've made it clear what I want. Scroll back and it's all there!"
At this point and a few points prior, Prudence was starting to realize that her mini-vamp was an irrational creature. One could not argue or try to talk sense to someone who was irrational and completely driven by their emotions. As she walked, the woman noticed the walls in the sewers starting to look bleaker and perhaps even, dull? Could sewer walls look duller than normal? That seemed illogical. Dullness, from what she knew came from over exposure to sun or some sort of elements and so the woman scratched the idea away. Almost everything about tonight seemed illogical. The redhead sighed after conjuring up a fade gate for the ladies on DoD, posted the notice of that and some other details that were important to other matters and went back to the conversation with her mini-vamp as she made her way up top to the city in search of blood. She would get blood, rest and then hit the raid again tomorrow. Her usual and comfortable routine for the past few weeks.
Prudence: I will grant you the opportunity to get to know me and me, you in return. Does that make you happy, CC?

Cinnamon Cherrywhip: "It's a start."
More attitude and it was wearing on her how much attitude and how absurd CC was being about everything. Another sigh after she lunged out of the shadows at the first easy victim she could find and sank her teeth in to her. The meal was not enjoyable. It tasted bland, as if the woman probably had something wrong with her [or that's what she labeled it was, logically]. Prudence spat the blood out with a sound of distaste and sent the blood bag on her way. The red colored substance on the ground appeared old from the second it hit it. It was discolored and to her, smelled almost like nothing. Her arm wiped across her lips, still trying to get the taste out as a street light close to her flickered on and off multiple times. The red head turned to head back to the sewers, eyes scanning the streets for familiar faces and possible enemies when she squinted her eyes. All she saw were unfamiliar people, but the sounds of the city did not go unnoticed. Beeping horns, sounds of cars running loudly and the sound of a couple arguing were noted, but not acknowledged past that. Not believing what she saw, the woman rubbed at them with her free hand, then stared again. The woman she had fed off did have something wrong with her. Remembering she hadn't replied to CC, Pru typed out an effective reply. "Get a new cell phone cover." She said out loud when Prudence really took a look at the thing and noticed how old it looked. It wasn't that it was an old cover, but she must be hard on her phone because the thing looked like it had lost its brightness from too much manhandling.
Prudence: Good. Now, anything else I can do for you tonight? * The woman was beginning to feel less and less like herself as the conversation progressed in a robotic fashion.*
Anything Prudence had even started to acknowledge as a feeling had vanished completely. New emotions, or emotions she did not allow herself to take part in, but had since the creation of DoD were sucked out of her; happiness. pride, ease and content. All gone. She hadn't paid it much attention, but the arguing couple she was approaching had stopped arguing, even though it had seemed to be in the middle of a very heated discussion. The woman pulled off the sewer cover to head back down when her phone buzzed again. Prudence moved the cover to the side of the road, stood up and read the reply before some more back and forth.
Cinnamon Cherrywhip: "Nope. You were the one who contacted me remember? So if you're done - I have someone to meet with and spend time with. Like you should go to Cliff."

Prudence: Why don't you not tell me what to do with my free time? I’ve somewhere to be. Goodbye, CC. *she turns off her phone*
There was that irrational side of CC again. Yes, she had contacted her because of her antics. What did the woman expect when DD was a valued member of DoD and also someone Pru had sort of taken under her wing a few weeks back? Prudence dropped down to the sewers depths and started heading back to the spot she had opened a gate at.

With a twist and turn and the woman was quickly approaching the spot. She started to put the phone away in her top of her skirt for safe keeping when she heard the thing drop in the water. "What the ****?" The woman looked down to where she usually put the device at and stopped dead pan. "What the ****?" Her voice was loud, but there was no emotion laced to it. She was trying to process a strange phenomenon that suddenly surrounded her from what seemed like out of no where. Where her skirt and half her body should be, suddenly wasn't. The woman then noticed her hands were gone and suddenly so was her arms. When she was about to repeat her question, the missing parts of her body reappeared. Prudence didn't wait to act, she started to look for her missing phone so she could try and contact someone. Someone had to know, something. At least the redhead hoped. Once the phone was secured, Prudence scrolled through her phone book to send a quick text to one of the ladies in DoD. Something weird is going

The phone dropped back to the sewer water to where her feet should be at. The walls manifested into something else, slowly contorting into a veil of black before the frame of the redhead was sucked out of the sewers with one final flicker. "Uh, hello?" Prudence called out in to the dark, her eyes slowly adjusting to her new surroundings.
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Blue eyes waited for the darkness to lighten, but it never did. She scanned the area, realizing she hadn't really gone anywhere. It just looked different. She was still in the sewers, but everything seemed quiet here. Dark and desolate. AA part of her even recognized it as peaceful. Suddenly, she knew right where she was and her jaw opened a little in confusion.

"What the ****?" She didn't know how many times she had asked that and the woman knew she wasn't going to get any response because in this place, voices were far and few between. Bodies were far and few between. She didn't understand how she had gotten here. When she wanted to be here, she made it possible. This time, the red head hadn't even thought of going here. Or had she?

"Well, ****."
Pru kicked at the sewer water and shook her head. She had things to do with DoD and with the raid and other things. The list could go on and on of tasks she had to complete by a certain timeline. Not to mention getting her school books. "Uh, is there anyone in this place?" Pru called down the narrow passage before she shrugged her shoulders and decided to head topside.

Once topside, Pru roamed around looking for a door. She was able to leave whenever she wanted to, but this was an important fact she had forgotten about at the immediate moment. There had to be a reason she was here. More importantly, there had to be an explanation on -how- she got here. Welp. "Looks like it's just me." She said after a long look around. With one foot in front of the other, Prudence headed north in the fade in search of some possible answers.

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After walking for what seemed like hours, Prudence had as many answers as she arrived with. Not one. She saw no one, not corporeal or incorporeal, but she knew where she was. Was it possible the fade was more powerful than anyone could understand? Even more, was it possible that any place could rip someone out of the place they were? No. Thoughts such as those were irrational. At least from what the woman knew about the fade, but for any place to steal you and put you in another? Sounded too science fiction; emphasis on the fiction part.

Then it hit her.
"Holy ****! I died!" A minor infliction to her tone of voice, something that resembled the moments in which a mystery was solved. It made the most sense and seemed the most possible. But what could kill her without the red head even knowing what was going down around her? "Well, that sucks." It sucked because no one would know and the longer she stayed dead without anyone knowing it, meant that finding whatever or whoever did this to her was going to be more and more difficult. "Great." She muttered, sighed and then sat down.

"Ow." She grunted when she sat, something poking her in the butt. Pru rolled to one side and yanked at whatever it was and brought it around to her face. A broken branch. "*****." She tossed it to the right of her and then put her hands on her knees and her head in her hands with a groan.

Wait. She had hands. And knees and a butt. She wasn't dead. How did she miss that? She'd been too absorbed in trying to figure out how she got here that her mind processed what was a definitive possibility, that she just ran with that possibility. Which meant if she was alive, then she could get the **** out of here. Prudence closed her eyes and concentrated on the Morgue. Somehow, when she popped out of this place, she always ended up there. Prudence thought of how the structure looked, the scent of the water behind it and the the other buildings around it. The scent of the water was no longer thought about, but could be smelled. Cool, crisp air blanketed her body as her eyes slowly opened.

Finally, she was free.
Or was she?
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