fifty words for murder and i'm every one of them

[submittome]

Who: Snakegato + Clotted Cream, White Lily, Mizuki and whomever wants to jump in after the deed
What: Suri has given Affogato a task to make Pure Vanilla suffer by harming those he loves dearest
When: The Night after returning to the Grove
Where: The Grove, round about Cookie House
Warnings: snake (in more than one sense of the word), the effects of snake venom including excruciating pain and the bodily reactions that accompany it (including emeto), death, note specific topping cws!


Affogato's been given a second, immediate order by the Black Sun. Cause Pure Vanilla pain by targeting those he loves - since hurting the Martyr himself won't do anything - in revenge for taking Nene away from it.

And seeing as how Affogato may hate the other Cookie a little, it's only something he's too glad to do.

So the night back, Affogato sets aside his little Seaborn baby Mizuki gifted him so Mizuki can "be with him" at all times, and carefully leaves the therapy building. Once outside, he dons the amulet the God gifted him with the intent to enact his will. The transformation is instantaneous and soon - once he figures out how to move - a black snake is carefully winding it's way through the grass of the Grove towards it's targets. Black dahlia patterns speckle its scales, scattered with marigolds in a stained corrupted look.

It will do it's best to avoid detection, using the dark of night to hide itself, as it winds its way towards its target.

Comments

[ephemeralflow]

[Time in the Grove frequently loops and rewinds and bounces around oddly, and it's very frustrating when you can sense these things, but it doesn't. Do that. That feels like something else, something deliberate.

Oh now this is interesting.

Timekeeper only finds herself reeling backwards for that first few seconds of an attempt, and then she seizes the local time around her in her own grip, smile widening as she feels it resist. Usually, this isn't hard, for her. But she'll take the challenge all the same, keeping that time bubble in place as everything else around her stutters backwards and snaps forwards again. The anomaly is originating from... there. Easy enough. She's on the Embroider and zipping towards the source in a moment, taking note of the distressed and confused expressions on those she passes. So normal people are experiencing and remembering this to some degree? Sloppy.

She whisks through the clinic door and lights gently on the floor. Ah yes, there's no mistaking it, the anomaly came from that person there! The one crying over a corpse, who she's going to blithely approach.]

My, my, what is going on over here that necessitated such reckless manipulation of time!

[Timekeeper asks it even though, well, she can very well guess. It's not a scenario she's unfamiliar with - such things happen all throughout time, and few people would not try to turn back time for a loved one, had they the means.]

[selenokinesis]

[Harque has to scrub at his eyes with his palm to get himself to stop just. Totally breaking down over here. It only half-works, and he recognizes the harsh tone as scrutiny immediately. He's too polite to snark, though.]

I'm trying to save him.

[And he gestures to Mizuki, hours dead at this point, still softly glowing as Seaborn are wont to do.]

[ephemeralflow]

Of course, it is love. With an attempt like that, it is hardly ever anything else.

[Timekeeper sounds vaguely bored by this, but not exactly admonishing. She looks between Mizuki and Harque as she flips her giant pair of scissors up behind her back, hooking her arms around it casually. Her smile is small but present, and as unreadable as ever.]

Hmm, no, his time has run out, it appears. Too long ago to save, given that time will not even turn much to my will here. Although, that makes your little show quite remarkable! If messy. I should like to know more about your technique, sometime.

[Meanwhile, Continuum Cog floats out from over Timekeeper's shoulder, hovering over Mizuki briefly to investigate. It then dips down towards Harque, circling around him slowly - perhaps curiously, although its expression is even blanker than Timekeeper's.]