Rooftop of Our Lady of Fandom, Thursday Morning

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

It had been a long time since Dante had seen the sun come up. So in the youngest hours of the morning, he curled out of his pew-bed and slipped outside, leaping up to the rooftop of the church.

He quickly found himself disappointed. The fog had risen so far that no light passed through, like it had done for years. He could see the planes meshing now, superimposed, the tenuous link between one and the other fortifying.

There were no more blinks. No more glimpses into another world. The church he'd gone to sleep in had been dusty but intact, at least for the short spell before he closed his eyes. Now, the space beside him had the old hole in it again, and half the pews were strewn around the hall inside like there had been a fight (multiple fights) there.

He sighed. Well. So much for that respite.

"G'morning, Cassandra," he said to the stalking, twitching form below, the one that dragged a sword behind her. "Just like clockwork again."

He dangled his feet over the edge of the roof and turned his eyes towards the grim edges of the shanty town in the park. "Let's hope Kathy made it back home okay."

[[ bde day 2! the island's now cut off from the island, the fog is high, and the buildings of Fandom will have twisted into their AU selves. also, monsters. also, open. ]]

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[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"Weather stabilize itself?" Anakin asked, eyes scanning the sky for any airborne problems as he extended his senses through the Force as well. Couldn't be too vigilant these days, after all. Paranoia had kept him alive.

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, we're back to our usual blanket of shitshow," Dante said idly. He sat back and peered up. "Yay?"

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

Anakin rolled his shoulders out, pretending like it was going to relieve tension. Ha. He'd been stressed for years.

"At least we're used to it?"

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Same old, same old," Dante said. "It was just nice to see the sun again."

He sucked in a breath of air. "You see any of the townies from other... whatever the hell, Fandom?"

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"A few," Anakin said. "Didn't get close enough to chat, but chatting's not really my thing. You?"

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Talked to a couple," Dante said, shrugging. "Just wondering if they made the jump too, or we did 'em a favor and moved on."

[theplacetostand]

"There you are." Ahsoka had woken with a bad feeling, which wasn't new, as well as a weird buzzing in her teeth and montrals when she reached out into the Force, which was. So she'd come looking for Anakin. "Are your teeth itching?"

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"A little," Anakin said, pausing to do a quick self-assessment. "That's new."

And new was generally bad. Call him a pessimist.

[theplacetostand]

"Or it's old and we both just forgot about it." At some point Ahsoka had gone all the way through despair and right back to sarcasm as a way of life. "Feels like licking a power pack."

[unbalancedforce.livejournal.com]

"When did you lick a power pack?"

Not really the point, Anakin.

[theplacetostand]

"What is it with roofs and brooding?" Ahsoka asked, leaping lightly up onto the roof. "You'd think people'd like to mope somewhere more stable."

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"I'm not moping, I'm having a moment," Dante called. "You're gonna ruin it with your sarcasm."

[theplacetostand]

"I might buy that from someone who didn't feel the need to wear a mask so we know how terrible he feels." The sarcasm kept her feeling like herself. Sorry, not sorry.

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"You have a trouble with my mask, you just stay outta my church," Dante volunteered. He swung his legs out. "No one's forcing you to stick around."

[theplacetostand]

But if she did that who would distract him from himself? "I'd say the part where we're all trapped on this island is."

[monstrouslove.livejournal.com]

Lucille slithered across the graveyard towards the church, a skeleton arm clutched in her long spidery fingers. The church organ should be properly tuned, and dropping little bony finger joints down some of the tubes just did the trick.

For a moment she looked up towards the roof, her eyeless face without expression.

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Well, that's not creepy at all," Dante commented idly. "You know your friend came through here fifteen minutes ago."

Not that he thought Lucille could actually understand him.

[monstrouslove.livejournal.com]

She might not understand, but Lucille smiled, the skin on her skull stretching even further. Whether this was a threat or a friendly greeting was up to Dante to guess.

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"Definitely creepy," Dante muttered.

But he was up on the roof, and she was down there. "Now there's a smile only a mother can love."

[monstrouslove.livejournal.com]

She could actually scale the walls, but for now other things were more important, such as the church organ. Lucille pulled the door open with her long, bony fingers. It made a creaking sound and then slammed shut behind her. Soon the building began to tremble from the power of the organ, its out of tune sound making eerie melodies.

Lucille had a meat cleaver in case someone tried to interrupt her.

[that_oldsaying]

Papa Jono was going to be so angry at her!

Alluka was rather scared of that idea, honestly, since he'd never been mad at her yet, but when she'd woken up early and the house had been ruined and the fog had been uglier, she'd gotten worried about Kathy.

Kathy was all alone out there! Anders had said so!

So she'd gotten dressed and grabbed a few cookies to eat on the way and, with Mr. Bubbles in her arms and another toy in her backpack, she'd ventured out bravely.

It... It was a far cry from the girl who'd been scared to go outside, a year ago, though she didn't really know that.

Since the nice man had said he lived at the church, Alluka made her way there. Maybe Kathy had stayed with him, or he knew where she was.

She didn't see anything bad, though it was really, really weird today. The island was so dead and she was a brightly coloured smear (due to her clothes) making her way through it on her ATs, since maybe if she went fast, Papa Jono would be less mad at her.

Besides, the man had been lonely. So maybe she wasn't just out here for Kathy.

Alluka paused outside the church, studying it. She hadn't ever been when it hadn't been all strange like everything else.

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

Huh.

Well.

That answered the question about whether any of the folks from yesterday had hopped over into their little nightmare.

Dante tilted his head and studied the girl.

Silently, he pushed off the roof and landed on both feet, not far from her. "You're a long way from Starsmore's," he said.

[that_oldsaying]

She beamed at him, skating over to him quickly.

"You're here!" Alluka said happily. "I wasn't sure you would be!"

[rebelscreams.livejournal.com]

"I did tell you I live here," Dante pointed out.

He shoved his hands in his pockets. "Why are you here?"

[that_oldsaying]

"It got icky out," Alluka said, her smile faltering slightly. Not at his reaction--she'd expected something like that, if he'd been around--but at everything else. "And, and I got worried."