Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

Abigail tries running in a different direction, scared.

 

She's boxed in.

Linoa just turns and leaves.

 

Abigail lies down, crying out of fear.

Linoa finds Katie staring straight at her as soon as she turns around, double-trident held ready.

"Care to explain?" Katie asks, serious. An icy path leads across the lake back to Katie's iceberg.

 

"I would if I could. She's so scared of me, she's imagining those barriers. I haven't cast a single one aside from the one keeping her out of the water." Linoa says bluntly.

 

Katie sidles around Linoa, double trident held ready, before walking over to Abigail and helping her up. Abigail hugs Katie, crying and shaking.

 

Linoa seems unfazed.
"Get Aj to trace my spellcasts if you don't believe me."

 

Katie walks Abigail back to her lava pool, helping her in, before Katie heads back to her iceberg to chill.

 

Linoa goes back to meditation.

 

Eventually, Artemis and I wake up fully and head out of the shelter.

"Why is it so bright..." I complain, covering my eyes.

 

Linoa's meditating and Sgavrinn seems to be guarding her, nervous.
"Abigail ran into a fake wall. I tried walking into where she hit the wall, and I walked right through." He tells Artemis. "Katie then got mad at Linoa because Abigail acted trapped."

 

Artemis pets Sgavrinn, smiling, before heading over to Abigail's lava pool. Abigail surfaces, and the pair talk for a bit; Abigail still looking rather shaken.

"Does that cafe you mentioned do early bird specials?" I ask Linoa, rubbing my eyes.

 

Sgavrinn trails Artemis.

Linoa breaks out of her meditation.
"I'm sorry, you caught me at a bad time. What did you need?" She asks, sitting on her spear.

 

"I'm just...she wants me dead and I fucked up and I can't do anything about it...and..." Abigail mutters before crying.

"Don't worry, Abigail. We'll protect you if she does anything." Artemis says, trying to console Abigail.


"Breakfast at the cafe. Yes? No?" I ask tiredly.

 

Sgavrinn hums to make himself noticed.
"Can you tell her that Linoa just wants her to give her a chance? She said she was sorry for losing herself."


"What ca- the Anubi? Yeah, they're open... can you promise not to freak out like Abigail? They said they know you from when you threatened to kill their nurses."

 

"Sgavrinn said Linoa wants to give you a chance and that she was sorry for losing herself." Artemis says.

"Losing herself w-when? When s-she boxed me in just r-recently?" Abigail asks.


"I did no such thing." I deny.

 

"No, when she tried to lightningify her. She never boxed her in."


Linoa shows you a vision of you threatening the two cloaked figures, this time, from their perspective.
They sink into the sand and wait. Once they hear you leave, they re-emerge.
"You okay, sis?"
"Think so. Is he just passing through?"
"I hope so, else we lose our only shot at surface reconstruction!"
"Right... alright, make haste. We'll be late."

 

"Apparently when she tried to shock you, and she never boxed you in." Artemis says.

"Then whose barrier did I run into?" Abigail asks, doubtful.


"I hate those guys. They made me depressed." I say, crossing my arms.

 

"She didn't. I walked through each one, plus Katie carried her out. Linoa said she must've just been freaking out really hard."


"Well, you want to go to the cafe or not? I wouldn't feel bad, their sense of smell is greater than any cloak. Not even gods can hide their presence from them."

 

"Apprently you were just freaking out." Artemis says.

"Great, so I'm insane too..." Abigail says, depressed, sinking back into her lava pool.


"Fine. I might stab one if it pisses me off though." I say bluntly.

 

Sgavrinn whimpers, throwing vines into the lava before realizing his mistake, yelping, and leaping into the water.


"Alright, then we're not going."