Halloween party - part three!

[elegante_events]

Redd stalks over to a set of tables, slapping snacks and punch bowls from their surface and knocking them over. He stacks several of them atop one another and forms a makeshift barrier. The heron clacks her beak and fluffs her feathers as he forces her inside, then makes for a nearby lever on the wall with a tag hanging from it that reads: DO NOT

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[entirelybonkers]

[She's on her hands and knees, there's dirt on her face and she vaguely thinks that maybe there's blood running down her face, but it's quite difficult to differentiate between that and the rain that is now pouring out of the sprinklers above her head.]

Oh, my Hatter...Mother...

[She sees Underland fall, crew members slaughtering those she held dear - the White Rabbit, Mirana, Mallymkun, Absolem, Margaret, her mother -

Alice wants to scream but she can't - her mouth wont work properly and she sobs quietly, letting her head drop to hang between her firmly planted hands, one still clutching the hilt of her beloved Vorpal sword, one of the only remaining possessions from the home that has been destroyed.

She has never felt such hate within her before - it isn't like her, it isn't in her character to hold sugh a thing inside for long, and with that little fact she brushes the offer of revenge away. No. NO.]

I will not.

[pimp_hat]

Damn straight joo won't.

[You're not alone Alice. Kevas is right there next to you and if he's not going anywhere neither are you. He stands next to her, slicing through any bird who dare attempts to come near his Alice. He won't let her fall to these birds, not as long as he's still breathing.]

[entirelybonkers]

[She hadn't quite realized that there was someone next to her, though the familiarity of the voice edges through the wave of madness she feels threatening to take over jerks her out of her visions and she viciously rubs her tears away and drags herself to her feet, blade back in her hand.]

We made a promise, remember?

[pimp_hat]

[Vaguely Kevas wonders just where and when Alice got a sword like but questions like that are best saved for when they got out of this alive.]

Aye, and I ain't be 'bout to break it now.

[Not after everything that's happened. Taking his blade in both hands, Kevas stands beside Alive. Blood from a dozen different wounds wash from his body by the cold water of the sprinklers. His body is in agony but he's not about to quit. They'll make it through this even if Kevas has to tear each of these birds apart by hand.]

[entirelybonkers]

[And they WILL get out of this alive, she's certain of it.]

Neither am I.

[And she's ready - if she battled the Jabberwocky, then she can most certainly do this as well. It feels good to have the Vorpal blade back in her hand, her fingers wrapped around the steady hilt. The first time she'd held it she'd been afraid, but not this time. This time she only felt determination, a driven need to protect, defend and stay alive for herself and for others.]