The ABC game.

[Sash0]

Weekends are fun  

[a quantum of frou frou]

. . . They keep a person sane.  

[Vendaval de la Luz]

Undoubtedly whoever said that never went looking for a killer on a Saturday...although...come to think of it...investigating things like that did give her a thrill.  

[0 Zeref 0]

It sure was a great adventure to help out with the investigation in the woods on a Saturday.  

[a quantum of frou frou]

Little did they expect, that they would soon find all the thrill, in that forest, that a killer can give them.  

[Vendaval de la Luz]

Marie scanned the area once more before climbing up a nearby tree to get a better look at the surroundings in hopes of spotting a clearing that would signal a dwelling.  

[a quantum of frou frou]

She noted in her clear methodical mind, with remarkable calm, that she felt a hand on her thigh. She was so calm and level-headed she DID in fact account first for the positions of her own two hands. Nope, not hers. She was up a tree with a murderer. Suddenly her heart was racing and she was dizzy, and sweating with a cold clammy sweat. There was no shock left to display when the head of the stranger, wrapped in a menacing ski-mask, appeared to her, inches from her own.  

[Vendaval de la Luz]

Taking a deep breath, she used her every ounce of self-control to force back the panic and, instead, push herself forward into the man, releasing her hold on the tree branches at the same time. The words of Holmes coming to her mind as she let gravity take hold, face to face with the man she'd been after. "If I could be assured of your destruction, I would, in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my own."

sinazcot is dead srry

This is suppose to be by the ABCs...N comes after M...but I'll pick up with T since it comes after the S you used...  

[a quantum of frou frou]

Vendaval de la Luz

This is suppose to be by the ABCs...N comes after M...but I'll pick up with T since it comes after the S you used...

emotion_facepalm I had totally forgotten that part. redface I was just winging it.














...  

[a quantum of frou frou]

"Unfortunate me," the stranger snorted behind his mask. "I feel I might like to enjoy you for a while, and I would be sad to see you accept your 'destruction' so soon. When shall I again have the honor of distinguished company, like yours, and your friend's?"

Marie remembered, as soon as he spoke, her accomplice on the ground. She had been found! But she's alive still. How had this 'monster' been able to hold onto this tree?

(There you go, Vendaval. Do you forgive me now? cat_sweatdrop )  

[Vendaval de la Luz]

"...Vermin! If you hurt my friend..." She was shaking...while calm as far as her own actions were concerned she would not stand for someone to threaten her friends. She grabbed his arm and tried to either force them to continue their descent or twist away and drop down herself.  

[a quantum of frou frou]

sinazcot is dead srry

Vendaval de la Luz

sinazcot is dead srry

(There you go, Vendaval. Do you forgive me now? cat_sweatdrop )

"...Vermin!..."

*takes that as a 'no'* cry

Wisps of icy air whistled about the tree tops above. Marie wrested herself from the gentleman's grasp and plunged into an accommodating pile of leaves and fragrant, mossy debris. But this was not over. She hadn't wondered yet, how had that man followed her so closely, without her knowing. Moreover, what was she to do now? Where was her friend?

He was above her, still, perhaps ready to take the plunge himself, and he was laughing! Marie didn't hear his laugh. She could feel it, in her heart, chilling her like December forest winds never could.  

[Vendaval de la Luz]

'Xena never had days like this...' Marie thought as she moved slowly around the tree, scanning both the ground for a sign or where her friend may have gone to...or what had happened as well as occasional glances up, staying on guard should he follow her.

sinazcot is dead srry

*takes that as a 'no'* cry

Hard to forgive when there is nothing that needs forgiving...it was a simple mistake. emotion_hug  

[a quantum of frou frou]

Vendaval de la Luz

Hard to forgive when there is nothing that needs forgiving...it was a simple mistake. emotion_hug

emotion_hug Okay.














"You're going to wish...little girl...," called the stranger. Marie bristled at the diminutive description. It was practically as angering as the man's having accosted her. She didn't know why he had let her go.

"You're going to wish you'd stayed in my tree-house," he went on, "...there's a killer out there, in the woods. I'm glad you weren't him, but I'm prepared for the day, which, I see, you are not..." He concluded his appraisal with a gruff little laugh, almost a snort, and the memory of his awful smell, from when he'd been inches from her face, returned to Marie, and she shuddered. Bad hygiene did not make one a killer, but Maire's friend is missing still, and without her council, how is she to decide whether to believe this ... baboon?  

[Vendaval de la Luz]

'Zero signs of a struggle...either she stepped away because she saw something...was lured away...or was surprised.' She glanced once more up into the tree. "You can either stay up there and still be considered the suspect or...should you be with me when I do meet him, if he is indeed someone else, you would heighten your chances of being exonerated as a possible accomplish...but that doesn't mean I will trust you." She paused a moment before stepping away but keeping an ear out for him should he drop down. "Suit yourself."