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Agatha Prenderghast ([personal profile] ghost_holder) wrote2017-11-01 02:56 am
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Three hits on the 6 is the number that you dial

Is it opportunistic to do this? Maybe. Probably. She hadn't actually expected Olive and Eduardo to take her seriously when she'd offered to house sit for them. She also hadn't expected them to be willing to pay as much as they've promised her either. Given the atmosphere of the Purge, the opportunistic whispers, she supposes they might see it as an investment. Even with her powers acting up, she knows she can put on a hell of a scare.

It's strange though that while many of her friends have been feeling their powers dim, Aggie's have never felt stronger. This isn't necessarily a good thing. Every time Aggie startles, lights dim and then surge back on; electrical devices go on the fritz; things break. Her own physical body always feels too small for her these days. It's not like a growth spurt in her bones and muscles but in her soul and there's no growing to accommodate that.

She's not in danger of being unable to defend the Saverin house. If anything, the greater danger is in being unable to limit how much damage she does to a person if they try anything stupid.

For the first hour though, most of the activity seems to concentrate in the city and Aggie just sits on the Saverins' porch eating some of their leftovers (they'd said she could). For a minute, the zombie makeup seems to feel like overkill until she hears something rustle at the end of the driveway. Then she's on her feet, eyes glowing fiercely.

"This isn't the place you want to try," she warns.

[[Be a friend or a burglar. Aggie will deal with them accordingly.]]
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[personal profile] train_baby 2017-11-14 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
She probably shouldn't be out. Yona has, in fact, been told this multiple times by multiple people, but she doesn't particularly care. Right now, there are several substances flowing through her veins, everything is pleasant and hazy and light, just with a backdrop of the sound of chaos, and she trusts her own instincts, anyway. If anything were going to happen to her, she'd be able to see it coming. Maybe that's why, as she passes by the houses lining the park, she pauses near the one with the girl in the zombie makeup, her eyes glowing in a way that definitively isn't makeup, the subject of her ire darting off before she can do anything else.

"Nice trick," Yona says, light and friendly, leaning against the fence. "Is it working? Making people leave?"
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[personal profile] train_baby 2017-11-19 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"No," Yona says simply, shaking her head. She doesn't add that she isn't easily scared off, more likely to be fascinated when other people might scream and run, remembering how she'd sat and shared a dessert with Frank on New Year's while everyone else bolted for the exists. Right now, it seems beside the point. There are people who are out tonight intent on doing bad things, and she isn't one of them. She just enjoys chaos. "I'm not here for anything."
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[personal profile] train_baby 2017-11-25 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Sure," Yona says, smiling brightly as she moves in closer so she can take a nugget from the plate. In her time in Darrow, she's tried all sorts of food that she'd never so much as heard of before this place, but there's something simple and delightful about chicken nuggets in the shape of dinosaurs. She's never been one to pass up food, anyway.

"It's... not great. How are things here?"
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[personal profile] train_baby 2017-11-29 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
Yona doesn't need to question the tacit invitation, nor does she see any reason to turn it down. There's food, and the girl guarding the house, whatever she might be capable of, seems friendly enough. She's not really one to think twice about anything like that, anyway, aside from having never seen it before. There's plenty that fits that description here, and no reason to make too much of it now.

"Lots of trouble," she says, taking a seat and reaching for one of the dinosaur nuggets, then promptly biting its head off. "I bet a lot of people will come out this way."
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[personal profile] train_baby 2017-12-01 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm Yona," she replies, offering Aggie a warm, friendly smile. "It's nice to meet you." In spite of the somewhat dire circumstances, she means it, too; she always does, is always happy to meet someone new. After spending an entire lifetime around the same few people, day in and day out, there's something refreshing about the sheer number of strangers in Darrow.

She grows a little more thoughtful quickly, though, humming absently in understanding. "I know a little what that's like," she says. "I saw it back home."

Of course, then, she'd been firmly on the side of the have nots. Now, she thinks people shouldn't have to have their property at risk because of some strange, unsettling event.
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[personal profile] train_baby 2017-12-04 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
"I lived on a train," Yona says, as easily as if she were naming a country or a state or a city block. She's nearly always gotten the same response when she's told people here about it, that they think it's unfathomable, but to her, it was simply life, the only one she ever knew. When she thinks about it, that still, to her, seems more normal than anything in Darrow was, maybe because no one ever really told her what life was like on Earth before it froze.

"We didn't have money, either. Just the front sectioners and the tail sectioners. And some people in the middle."

Halfway towards bringing another dinosaur nugget to her mouth, she goes still, her eyes widening for a moment. "There are people coming here."
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[personal profile] train_baby 2017-12-05 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
"A moving one," Yona answers as she gets to her feet in turn, the same wary expression on her face all the while. There's something surprisingly nice about saying something like that to a person she hardly knows and not being questioned. The people she spends a lot of time with have, she thinks, long since gotten used to it, but that doesn't mean she hasn't met her fair share of skepticism. "It never stopped. The train."

Glancing around, she adds, "Come on. Through the house?"
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[personal profile] train_baby 2017-12-09 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay," Yona says, an agreement that comes easily. It's clear enough that Aggie knows how to handle herself, and she's done her part, given a warning when she's seen something coming. With everything going on tonight, it seems like the least she can do. "I'll be right here."

She leans over to grab another dinosaur nugget and bite into it, for good measure.
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[personal profile] train_baby 2017-12-12 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Eerie or not, it's with fascination more than anything else that Yona looks at Aggie when she comes back, and a little bit of awe. Whatever she can do, this is something else entirely, and she almost wishes she could make herself look like that, with light under her skin and in her eyes. She can see how it could be frightening — why it might run someone off — but it's beautiful, too, in a way. At least, she thinks so.

"Good," she says, smiling. "You must have really scared him off."
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[personal profile] sidestepdestiny 2017-11-30 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"...Agatha? Crowley, what's happened to your face?" I ask, brows furrowed. I don't need a light to see in the dark, but from where I'm standing there are unnatural shadows on her cheeks, her lips are nearly blue and her pallor is pale and gray. She almost looks like me on a very bad day.

She doesn't smell unusual, and she appears to be eating casserole from a tupperware container.

"What are you doing out here?"
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[personal profile] sidestepdestiny 2017-12-03 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sorry for startling you," I say with an apologetic smile.

"You could have just come to the Gardens, you know," I add kindly. "We have a lot of magickal protections set up. Lately, Simon's magic has been...intense." Even more than usual, which is saying something, and quite unlike my own failing spells. It's made it a risk coming out here, but even without my magic I'm still a vampire.
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[personal profile] sidestepdestiny 2017-12-05 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I give her a flat look. I know how powerful she is, but none of us are invincible. I don't want to have to remind her of KIRIN to make my point, but I'm also not sure I'm comfortable leaving her alone out here by herself.

"No thank you," I tell her, not wanting to eat in front of Agatha even if she knows what I am. "It isn't safe out here for any of us, but I thought I'd come look around to make sure no one's gotten stranded and needs help. Has it been calm around here so far?"
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[personal profile] sidestepdestiny 2017-12-07 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I sit down on the front stoop next to Agatha, letting out a soft huff. I should get back to the Gardens, but I'll stay a little while first, just in case. Plus it'll be good to give my leg some rest, it's starting to get numb. I stomp it a few times to try and get the circulation going or stop whatever the hell makes it do this.

"They are," I agree, not even noticing she swore. It's not something that bothers me with kids. (And Agatha isn't exactly a kid, anyway.) "Every seven years, was it? Or six? I wonder if anyone who isn't native to Darrow has even been here long enough to have experienced it the first time."
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[personal profile] sidestepdestiny 2017-12-11 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I nod absently, wondering about the validity of it as an on-going thing as well. Especially when I've heard people had come to the city and it was empty. But that could have been simply another trick, this place changes too much to tell.

"Of course it happened while the magic's been screwy," I sigh. "I guess if I make it another seven years I'll just have to hope that isn't part of it again, and that we'll be better prepared to do something to stop it. If the law can't be changed, at least those of us who know magic can get together and try to preserve more areas, protect more people."

I tap my wand impatiently against my thigh. "If I'm still here."