[002. The Wail of the Banshee -- Part 1?]

[lydiascreams]

(OOC: Banshee scream below! It takes place on the Deck. Feel free to have your characters react to hearing it and let me know if you have any questions.)

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[Lydia has been working on this little by little every day since she got to the Barge. She's been hearing all of the deaths and taking notes on her phone of names, murderer and murdered as a way to keep track of who could hurt them as well as how they chose to hurt them. Some of them showed up several times and she knows she needs to warn Stiles and Scott of those, at least.

She knows she's reaching breaking point. After each flashback, it becomes harder to hold back the scream. And that's why she chooses to go up on the Deck today. Because she figures at least she will be the furthest away from the rooms if she can't hold back anymore.

Except she doesn't expect the deck to hit her as hard as it does.

Once she gets there, she feels like she's being slammed with memories. There are so many of them all over the place, she feels like her head is going to explode. There's someone being strangled. Skeletal animals torn someone else apart. Another man's soul is splintered apart. A boy about her age has his throat slit open by a girl. One dies after a fight with the same man who strangled the first and the man whose soul got splintered kills another with a back stab.

It's too much, she can barely make sense of it all. Her hands are covering her ears and it's loud. So loud.

Before she can help it, Lydia screams. It's a loud, agonizing scream that makes her entire body shake and it feels like it's going on forever. She's never screamed for so long before, with the pain of so many.

Once it's over, her knees give under her and she kneels on the floor, hands trembling as she rubs them over her face, trying to catch her breath.]

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[Delayed filters below]


[Stiles & Scott]
I'm so sorry, Scott. I'm okay. I just couldn't hold back.


[Wynter]
I want to start training. As soon as you're available.

Comments

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[lydiascreams]

[It's an odd question for someone to ask, but she guesses not so odd if he's not from Earth. She doubts they have the same kind of mythology.]

A supernatural creature. A messenger of death. I can sense death before it happens and sometimes, stop it. On the barge, I was able to feel the deaths that already happened.

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[givessweetness]

Oh, I see. [He's not disappointed, exactly, but was expecting something else... he's not even sure what, even. The sensing the future is inbuilt to Time Lords, even though it's not used very well.] That must have been... something.

[He can't imagine that was particularly fun to experience.]

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[lydiascreams]

It was definitely something. [Something she hopes won't happen again. But she knows better than to hope that. It will happen, it always does.]

Sorry about the tangent. I was curious if anyone else had heard.

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[givessweetness]

I see. Well, we should get back to our original track. Could you possibly demonstrate a form of the martial art you studied. It doesn't have to be perfect, just enough to give me an idea of what's happening.

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[lydiascreams]

We should, I'll start with the basics that I know. Mostly self-defense techniques my best friend suggested a while back and I read about.



[OOC: would you mind handwaving the actual martial arts part as I know nothing about it? ><]

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[givessweetness]

So you said. [He nods, waiting for her first attempt at getting position.]

[OOC: Absolutely fine!]

[Afterwards:]

I think that'll do for now.

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[lydiascreams]

[She is definitely going to be sore in the morning. But she smiles at him and nods.]

Thank you, Wynter. I think that will be a really good start.

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[givessweetness]

[He nods in acknowledgement of her thanks.] Running away will always be your best bet, no matter how good you get.

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[lydiascreams]

That's my first plan, I know I'm not strong like the others, especially if there are people with superhuman strength.

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[givessweetness]

Remember strength isn't everything. A strong mind is better than a strong body.

[His is one of the few sections of society where physical condition is focused on at all as anything more than merely a vehicle for the brain.]

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[lydiascreams]

[That definitely makes her feel better. She trusts her mind a lot more than her physical strength.]

I'll keep that in mind.

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[givessweetness]

[He gives her a smile. If nothing else, he appreciates an engaged student.] Good.