After she's done away with the first one, there are others that are still making grabs, but they all appear to be clumsy with it. Once in a while, part of a head breaks the surface too, though they're also unidentifiable: wet skulls with thin layers of skin stretched over them, empty eyes and open mouths, adding to the cacophony of wailing in this whole place.
The walk is one of those things that just feels a bit like it both takes forever and very little time at all. Maybe it's five minutes. Maybe it's five hours. Eventually, though, the path does start to slope upwards... even if, for some reason, the bloody waters do not get any more shallow. Somehow.
It gets steeper and steeper, but eventually--ahead of them, Avenger stops.
"I will go no further than here," he tells Da Vinci. He does spare a brief glance for the other two, though it's a quick thing, more dismissive than anything. "So long as the Beast roams here, I will not leave this place."
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Date: 2022-09-06 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-09-06 12:52 am (UTC)LET'S IGNORE IT :) :) :) ]
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Date: 2022-09-06 12:57 am (UTC)The walk is one of those things that just feels a bit like it both takes forever and very little time at all. Maybe it's five minutes. Maybe it's five hours. Eventually, though, the path does start to slope upwards... even if, for some reason, the bloody waters do not get any more shallow. Somehow.
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Date: 2022-09-06 01:02 am (UTC)This is not fun but it is fine. :) ]
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Date: 2022-09-06 01:07 am (UTC)"I will go no further than here," he tells Da Vinci. He does spare a brief glance for the other two, though it's a quick thing, more dismissive than anything. "So long as the Beast roams here, I will not leave this place."
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Date: 2022-09-06 01:11 am (UTC)[ Though maybe the twins are regretting tagging along by now. ]
Thanks, Avenger.
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Date: 2022-09-06 01:13 am (UTC)Afterwards, it's just another steep, steep climb, until...