Cadence Scott
As Cadence approached the table, she felt someone's eyes on her back -- so she turned around and realized that Will (
@ResistingTheEnlightened)was staring at her. They held a strange sort of eye-contact for perhaps a few moments longer than they should have, and to Cadence, it almost seemed like Will was trying to tell her something... But alas, she never found out because Fianna (
@DANAsaur) grabbed him by the hand and started dragging him towards the dinner table.
Cadence was a bit surprised by this. She was pretty blind when it came to anything like flirting -- the line between flirtatious behavior and simple friendliness had always been a bit of a blur to her -- but a motion like this seemed pretty blatant. Fianna had appeared to be a fairly reserved person before, but here she was now, making an obvious flirtatious gesture like taking someone's hand? When the walk to the table was only several feet away?
The image left an unsettling feeling in Cadence's gut, but she didn't quite know why. Considering the situation they were all in -- the whole 'being kidnapped and placed in a cabin in the woods' thing -- she didn't think this was exactly the time to be flirting...
Yeah, that must be it, Cadence thought to herself, trying to justify why Fianna's motion didn't sit well with her.
But hey, not like it matters. They're free to do what they want, right? I'm just gonna sit here and eat--
But at that moment, Joshua's (
@Kaykay) voice jarred Cadence from her own thoughts. He had been staring at the flower she'd given him, and something suddenly clicked as he realized what had just happened.
"Oh, yes actually! I am," she answered, taking a seat next to him at the table and putting some meat on her plate.
"I was just about to finish my last year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, when..." Cadence paused, trying (and failing) to remember exactly what had happened on her last night there.
"Well, you know. When I was suddenly whisked here instead." She picked up a piece of the meat with her fork and was about to take a bite when she stopped suddenly, sighing and placing her fork back down on the table.
"I... I wonder if anyone's noticed I'm gone yet..."
She had stopped wallowing in these thoughts just long enough to hear Kuro (
@Tsuki) speak and suddenly blurt out about his past. Cadence went wide-eyed with shock at the confession.
"Wait wait wait -- you took his eyes?" she repeated.
"What does that even mean?" Maybe
this was the game! Cadence began to panic a bit (internally, of course). Maybe, just maybe, everyone here in this shack had some kind of twisted, sketchy, and vaguely violent background, and they had all been pitted against each other in this arena as some sort of sick game.
No, don't be ridiculous! she told herself.
No one here looks crazy... And besides that, Cadence couldn't think of one violent moment in her past. She was actually strangely clean in that department.