Abroxis
Roxie
NELYVIA PELLERE
Ah, Yew could offer Glumisun the truth. After all, the Shop Owner collapsed to the ground. Old, the age must have exhausted him. Or their weight…“Could you move? I'll bring you a screen for that. We can't actually enter the territory for today.”
She waved with her sloppy arm. Enough to carry phone and call her troupe. “It’s fine.”
"The other two has yet to call. I wish they are safe."
The Tiefling paused to discover and debate about what words were appropriate, “I am sure they are. After all, there are reasons each of you are leaders.”
Glumisun requested a screen, gladly it came in within a minute.
Lydia, she would call her most trusted member.
With the number in her head and the wild typing, it began to ring and Cyrils face popped up.
Her heart clenched. He was somewhere in a ruined house. Ash covered his sandy hair.
“Cyril,” Nelyvia demanded, “What the actual cow are you doing on Lydia’s phone.”
Not a question, a mark of the pain that ached through her.
“Commander,” his voice cracked and through the phone it almost had been impossible to notice it… but his eyes were red. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck!
“Cyril, my patience is not the biggest thing on the world,” she growled, her tail rotated and left visible scratched on the floor.
Then… Gods no. A white rose was handed over. A signal only her Plutrons knew. It was… a signal that someone had died. Not from the Clan, but from the Plutrons.
“Cyril. Report,” Nelyvia snarled. She wasn’t foolish, her heart and mind already told her what was up. If Lydia was not the one who answered and Cyril had a white plastic-rose stuck on his uniform …
“Nelyvia, we lost her.”
The ground was smashed underneath her by the Tiefling’s Tail. Her nails clawed the table and made sure everyone in ten decades could see the pain and hear her silent screams.
She swallowed.
Calm. Stay calm.
The wrong order. Nelyvia had given them the wrong order.
“Her Family died due to the explosion. She lost herself in a maddening rage. A clear shot through the head.”
No. No. No.
Her family! They loved the parks… oh gods. Her family once loved to walk and play where the explosion … Why hadn’t she thought about that?!
“The others?”
Dead. Dead. Dead.
Cyril furrowed his brows. Of course he did. Nelyvia had once again shattered her facials with a mask. An icebound mask.
There was not a sign, except her claws and tail, that she boiled with screaming and the desire to kill them all. Every single one of them. Slowly. She would tantalize them all.
“One of us tried to cover her,” the man continued, straightening his back, “No further injury than a mere scratch.”
Lydia … is dead.
“Good.” She wobbled with the chair. Calm. Calm down. Breathe.
The Tiefling inhaled. Dead. Dead. Dead.
“The academy?”
Death… Lydia!
“Panic, indeed. A few injured people, but it’s under control. But now we wonder, how do we…”
She exhaled. Enough to mute her third trusted companion. Think. Think clearer.
Nelyvia couldn’t join them today… not anymore. But tomorrow. And until then… She started completely wrong.
Lydia is dead.
“Take the other guards. No one is to walk around without a pair. East, west, north and south. Two snipers each. Don’t you dare to let anyone slip through the back-doors.”
He nodded. And nodded.
Lydia. Death.
“No one leaves the academy. Calm the people down and tell them I will be there before sun rises again. And take three of us and make a list of who is still missing.”
Cyril gaped his jaw, Nelyvia clenched hers.“We counted 89 deaths until now… With Lydia it is 90. The whole place around the statue is like as if it is from another world…”
Dead… My Lydia is dead
The Tiefling sighed and stiffened. “I am to be expected tomorrow. Two snipers, you and one guard shall sleep better than always after the list is done. We will locate and go through the district. For now,” her eyes narrowed at him, “don’t do what I wouldn’t.”
@Vague o3 @ArgonianScum
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