OOC: It is admitted the contents of this entry is NOT established 'cannon' of this game. It is a 'dream sequence' and should be treated accordingly and does not affect or influence anything within the actual rp aspects of this game. Also I make no claims upon the item Zodiac finds in this post. We all know 'Who' owns that. Thank you.
Whooshing in the Darkness
~...Dreaming to be free, yet damned through eternity...~
The night mist wrapped the backstreets like the arms of a gigantic ghost. At times a soft annoyance at best while in other spots thick and obscure. The silent footsteps pushed the figure through the swirls of condensation in equal silence as she searched about. Occasionally the thinness of the night veil and the streetlamps gave a clue to the night walker. The dark purple cloak trimmed in white fur almost black in the lighting available. The hood was raised and the open parasol the woman carried over her head blocked the scant light from revealing much of her face to any that would happen to encounter her in her travels.
"Where are you?"
Violet colored lips did not move, but crystal blue eyes sat into an alabaster face peered about intently. The heavy black decorations surrounding her purple shaded eyes only made the natural color stand out even more. She made not a sound nor spoke an audible word, but her thoughts danced in the night searching.
"Where are you?" Her thoughts called out again. The one her telepathy called to did not ignore her as the norm. She was not worried yet. Sometimes these hunts would take hours when the conditions were right. No matter, the evening was young. The girl was well fed and ready to explore, so the game of hide and seek in the fog was a welcome diversion. She moved on, moving deeper into the mist now. Occasionally she called out again as her eyes picked out details around her. Muffled sounds trying so hard to be silent caught at once by her overly sharp hearing. In the gloom, two people struggled. One trying in vain to free themselves from the death grip the second had on them as they fed upon them. Each second passing meant the mortal was closer to death now. The attacker had to be a fledgling, or one recently returned to be so hungry. She continued on. It was not her problem, for now.
Other scenes were glimpsed as well. Many of them not vampire in nature. The world's oldest profession played out no matter what the weather was. Dealers sold their wares to eager souls craving a shot of beyond the normal. She smirked and shook her head. The victim she saw earlier had a better chance of achieving such a goal if he survived being turned. Like a ghost escorted by a larger ghost, she passed them all without being noticed.
"Meow............."
She froze in mid step at the sound while her hearing tried to gauge what direction it had come from. "Where are you, Miss Ginny?" her thoughts drifted again, and again, the long drawn out note of feline confusion answered. Anyone who spent a large amount of time with any animal learned they made distinct sounds for different reasons. To a non animal person, a meow was a meow, but to her she had heard this before when her cat found something beyond her normal experiences. Gently, her free hand slipped under her cloak and snapped off the safety of her hidden weapon. The first time she had heard her cat make that noise, she walked around a corner and found herself face to face with a fadebeast for the first time. Ginny 'knew' what they were now, so this was no fadebeast she was trying to figure out. She aimed herself in the direction the meows came from and was on guard more than ever.
She found her familiar sitting looking down a alleyway. A soft light revealed her in the mist that was coming from the direction the cat was staring at so intently. She crouched just short of being seen by whatever had the cat's attention and whispered again.
"What is it, darlin'?" she asked. Ginny, as if finally hearing her turned its head sharply in the girl's direction and walked to where she was. Meowing and moving about her almost frantically. Slowly, she leaned forward and peeked into the alley.
"What the.....?'
The light was coming from a large box. At first she thought it was a phone booth, but it was all wrong for that. Truthfully, she could not recall the last time she had even seen a phone booth -or even pay phones- in the new cellular world they all lived in now. It was blue with the curious words
POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX
across the top above the small door. What was a call box? She had never seen anything like this in her exploring of this town before, and part of her was debating how to take this home. What a bizarre conversation piece this would be sitting in the corner. A few plants around it, some ambient lighting. Her mind was buzzing now. It obviously was connected to some power source for the inner lights and the small strobe (?) lamp on top to be burning.
As she stood up to go investigate, Ginny meowed again, much louder. "What?" she paused to pet and adore the large black cat for a bit. "You smell something odd about it. hmm?" Ginny was agitated now, but the girl could not tell if it was fear or excitement that fueled the sounds escaping her mouth. Carefully she stepped into full view of the curiosity. She saw a door, actually a set of doors, in what she assumed was the front of it. After a few moments deliberation, she knocked.
Nothing. As small as the box was, it was not like if anyone was inside they would not have heard her knocking. Zodiac imagined the knocking would be quite loud in such a confined space as this. What was it for?
She placed her hands against the surface and focused her thoughts, only to jump a step backwards as if shocked by electricity.
The box had an aura. Every living thing had an aura but this was the first time the mystic found a man made object with one. She simply had to see.
"Mrow," Ginny was moving about her feet now. Clearly her council on the matter was 'Let's go find something else to mess with'., but the gypsy ignored her furry friend as she focused her powers on the lock. A soft click and the door drifted inward an inch as light from inside pushed at the darkness surrounding her. She pressed her eye against the crack to see what lurked within and it opened wide.
"Oh, my goddess!" She eased the gap wider and stepped inside. The cat gave a final hiss of warning before following her. The door slowly eased shut and relocked, but the girl was not panicked. She was confident she broke in and would be able to break back out when she was ready. The room being larger than the outside suggested was a curiosity, but her focus was on the door again. "We....crossed a line of some sort." she frowned. Her beliefs told her such things were possible. Her own grandmother told her stories of witches who had grown to the point of not only transporting themselves from one place to another, but able to stop and explore the place 'in between'. Any of the vampires who teleported had that moment of blankness in the middle of the act as they passed through such a place. Now she found herself in such a place that came with a door back into her own normal place.
"Someone boxed up a place between the places," she marveled. The box itself was only a doorway in or out. The real mystery was surrounding her now. She lets her eyes take in the 'room' she found herself in. She could see doors leading away from here and she ached to explore them all. Did they take her deeper into this place or did they open to other planes of existence like her own. First was where she stood. Ginny had already made herself comfortable on one of the rails that surrounded the 'altar' in the center of it all. If alter it was. It resembled a combination of things that made no real sense to her.
"Don't push any buttons" she reminded herself as she made a slow circle around it. Parts of it looked like trash strung together while other parts of it she could not fathom at all. The aura she sensed outside was strong here and she paused at a more empty part of the central dais. Her fingertips touched the surface as she opened her thoughts.
"Hello," she whispered. Only to grow weak in the knees and collapse onto the floor as the aura she had felt answered her back............
Fin?
