[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.)

[Action Spam -- Open]

[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

[lydiascreams]

Don't worry, I don't expect it to be easy.

[And for what she was getting in return, it was worth the effort.]

And I'm sure it will take time before we're comfortable with each other like you seem to be with your Warden, but I expect it to be a process.

[outofclothes]

[A sound and rational head on those shoulders of hers. Stark can't really tell if that's an advantage or trouble just waiting to happen, but there's a distinct possibility that's not up to him to figure out either.]

[Stark nods.]

Well, hopefully it won't be the same process as Vin and me because ours involved a lot of hitting and name-calling.

[lydiascreams]

I'm more of passive aggressive than hitting, hopefully it will be okay.

[She knows how to control people when she wants to. That's why she and her ex actually worked to begin. But she's learned to use her powers for good and not to make him watch The Notebook every Friday night.]

[outofclothes]

[Stark chuckles.]

Hey passive aggressive can get pretty dangerous, too. Don't underestimate it.

[lydiascreams]

Oh, trust me, I know. And I don't.

[She smirks.]

[outofclothes]

[Stark gives her a crooked grin.]

Then hey, you might just do alright.

[lydiascreams]

Thank you, I'd like to think so.

[outofclothes]

[Stark takes the last drag off his cigarette and flicks it over the railing. He likes to imagine it's landing on a baldspot of some jackass on some world.]

I'll see you around. Anybody gives you any shit, let me know.

[lydiascreams]

I will. See you.

[She's a little surprised by the offer but after offering him a smile, she nods and starts back toward her room. There was no such thing as having too many people on her side, after all.]