[Thanks to the overenthusiastic resort owner, Lily had returned to Death City with several of the little stuffed hummingbirds, handing some of the extras out to friends who had stayed behind. A couple remained in the bottom of her bag, forgotten under old dry cleaning receipts, the other contents of the bag obscuring the lights and muffling the message so that she didn’t even realize anything was amiss.]
[Not until she put up a ‘back in 10 minutes’ sign and stepped out of Yesterday’s Magic to visit the coffee shop down the street. It was coming back that the cobblestone in front of her started to faintly ripple. At first, she’d assumed it was just a small mirage caused by the hundred degree heat but then the ground swelled, turning red as a crude figure rose out of the pavement before. It reminded the witch of an oversized wax poppet or worse, those oily black creatures that had appeared when the floating carnival fell.]
[Even more alarming was the sudden chill she felt when it swung one of those long hair-like pieces at her and the scent of singed fibers as a flame burned a palm-sized hole in the skirt of her vintage dress and charred the crinoline underneath. She doused it with her iced coffee and fled as a second rose from the ground. She sure as shootin’ wasn’t going to stick around for a witch burning! And there was no way for her to fight the dang things alone. She had to find Lezard!]
[So, Lily was running through town, trying to get to clinic. She managed to lose the red ones quickly but those strange figures in different colors kept materializing out of the ground, forcing her to frequently backtrack or take detours.]
[OOC: It’s already planned that Neji and Lee will eventually find her and help her get to Lezard but I’m open to having Lily run into other people before that!]
Lily | Between the shopping district and the clinic | Open
[Not until she put up a ‘back in 10 minutes’ sign and stepped out of Yesterday’s Magic to visit the coffee shop down the street. It was coming back that the cobblestone in front of her started to faintly ripple. At first, she’d assumed it was just a small mirage caused by the hundred degree heat but then the ground swelled, turning red as a crude figure rose out of the pavement before. It reminded the witch of an oversized wax poppet or worse, those oily black creatures that had appeared when the floating carnival fell.]
[Even more alarming was the sudden chill she felt when it swung one of those long hair-like pieces at her and the scent of singed fibers as a flame burned a palm-sized hole in the skirt of her vintage dress and charred the crinoline underneath. She doused it with her iced coffee and fled as a second rose from the ground. She sure as shootin’ wasn’t going to stick around for a witch burning! And there was no way for her to fight the dang things alone. She had to find Lezard!]
[So, Lily was running through town, trying to get to clinic. She managed to lose the red ones quickly but those strange figures in different colors kept materializing out of the ground, forcing her to frequently backtrack or take detours.]
[OOC: It’s already planned that Neji and Lee will eventually find her and help her get to Lezard but I’m open to having Lily run into other people before that!]