valeas: (☾ c o l l e r a)
𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒅𝒊 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐. ([personal profile] valeas) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2022-08-24 08:20 pm

video — un: starburst.

( Hello, Eastbounders.

Once again, a dynamic and alarming duo greets you, with no better news than last time.

In fact, it doesn't seem to be an announcement at all.

The first thing the jostled communicator picks up is... a sound. Guttural, croaked, agonising. It belongs to Lady Arabella, throwing herself upon what becomes quite obviously Wrath's frame. Her mouth opens wider, and wider still, as though she might want to swallow him whole.

The sound becomes a scream, unending.

Wrath's golden gaze stares at Arabella like one might survey a mildly interesting change in the scenery — his own expression impassive as her grip tears the buttons from his shirt.

His companion, on the other hand, reacts a bit more angrily, Emilia's initial concern shifting into something more vicious. As Arabella attempts to latch on to Wrath however she can, Emilia strikes back at her, prepared for a fight. Except it never quite comes: no sooner Arabella is thrown off, she stops,

backpedaling into the communicator that turns the video black.
)


NOTE: Again, the second link leads to Grudge-y things. The video is short and choppy and hectic, taking place not long after the assassination attempt on Arabella. Wrath and Emilia helped in the rescue efforts and were, uh, rewarded. For more details, feel free to read here.
bravelyrunsaway: (smile; hahahaaaa fu)

[personal profile] bravelyrunsaway 2022-08-31 08:18 am (UTC)(link)
Here she just had her people hand me and Moran a greased up key. Let me see that note closer, love, do you mind?
inferus: (🗡️ 1 9 0)

[personal profile] inferus 2022-09-02 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
It's Wrath. ( Wrath does turn the video toward the note so he can see, however. ) It is not magical in nature, but it had its effect on her regardless.
bravelyrunsaway: (uh; this smells like bullshit)

[personal profile] bravelyrunsaway 2022-09-02 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
( raised eyebrow. it's wrath is as bad as saying "it's mansbane," please do not ask why a teenager past was having to invent surnames, he's made it Work, Somehow. )

This whole storming place is magical in nature, does it set no one else's teeth on edge? Not active, but it's everywhere.

( see: unknowing side effect of being a magic battery. magic sensitivity! )

So the words unlocked the response. Different phrase than what our key said.
inferus: (🗡️ 1 8 6)

[personal profile] inferus 2022-09-04 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
I would imagine it would only be noticeable to those who can sense magic to begin with.

( Wrath does not mind feeling all the magic humming around the city. He prefers sensing that to places that would be more absent in it. That hollowness would be difficult to grapple with. )

It appears so. It's possible your key was meant for someone else entirely, but the phrase may have a similar effect.
bravelyrunsaway: (uh; this smells like bullshit)

[personal profile] bravelyrunsaway 2022-09-08 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
I'd be storm-struck lucky to go nose-blind to it all tomorrow!

( take him to the hollow places, where he feels more himself than this. he sighs, a touch more of a growl than the human sense of a sigh would be. )

The possibilities are many, the knowns are few. I must have some doubt that running around telling people to wake up can be outright as violent as what you witnessed, if only because people say that normally. I don't know about you, but I have, often and readily enough.