Abygail Upton
"No."
Rough, simple...straightforward, and only answered one of her questions. Well, at least Aby knew this man wasn't the perpetrator. But she wished he would fill her in on a few things...answer her questions.
"Name?"
Well, it makes sense. It doesn't hurt to know a person's name. Aby nodded and smiled as friendly as she could in spite how worn out she felt. "I'm Abygail... Aby, for short." She was about to extend her hand warmly and ask him the same thing, but she suddenly didn't feel safe. It wasn't because of the guy; he just saved her after all. Giving him another once over, he didn't seem to be dangerous. Even as he nonchalantly moved closer to her, looking over her as if she had something odd growing out of her flesh, Aby still didn't feel the need to get away. No... What alerted her to danger was a llow vibration beneath her - through the mucky ground she sat on, the earth shook. it was so low she didn't expect anyone else to feel it, but with her senses compensating for the lack of sight, Aby could.
She stopped moving and placed her hands on each side of her legs - to 'listen' to the earth move. Sighing deeply, for she was for certain that, perhaps, the strange sensation was due to the dramatic display she participated in earlier. Her head was beginning to throb and her wrist and torso felt somewhat numb right about then. Even as she tried to concentrate on what she felt, her head wobbled over her shoulders with a growing fever, giving her the whole Pop bobble head doll look. Betcha that LARPer there would really get a kick out of that. No, she must be mistaken. It was all the results of being held upside down for as long as she had - she thought. But then, she felt another wild vibration, this one larger than before. Something was happening beneath them....
With a shake of her head, Aby looked up at the guy with a glazed over expression, "Am I just too tired, or is there a large machine on somewh..."
She jumped with a squeal; the ground shimmy beneath her more this time... continuous, as if some large machine was digging holes below. Her body went ridged with an innate fear and a desperate need to run away. Before anyone could understand what was happening, a loud boom broke the atmosphere and something disturbed the pond she emerged from. Aby couldn't tell what it was, and frankly, with all the unreal sounds it was making, she didn't want to know anymore. Whatever it was, it was huge, it was close, and it was mad! She had mistaken the plant creature that attacked her as some handmade machine. Aby figured that, perhaps, monster number two wasn't a machine...
"I'm not going to be shamed twice!" Pulling herself up to her knees and frantically began to scan the ground with her hands. Aby wasn't planning on staying around to get up close and personal with that creature too, but...where is her cane? She knew she dropped it.
"Damn, it has to be close by... Have you seen it?" Twice she lost her balance and topped to her side, only to quickly lift herself back up to continue her search. The screams and cries coming for all the other people there began to drill into her brain and rack her nerves. She wanted to get the hell out of there before something else bad happened, but she just wasn't able to move fast enough or successfully find what she needed to do so.
A huge crack of thunder caused her heart to stop. It sounded like the sky and earth cracked at the same time. Aby froze in place and slowly looked up towards the over cast of trees above them. A unworldly roar wrapped their ears in fear - Aby turned pale; she was about to crash.
"What the hell was that?"
"Now go!"
Before she could register what the man beside her said, or to understand what was happening around her, the guy suddenly scooped her off the ground.
"HEY! What are you doing?!" PUT ME DOWN!" Kicking and screaming, Aby eventually realized that he wasn't trying to prevent her from running on her own. He was - helping her, helping them, escape. On his feet, the man ran and all Aby could do was wrap her arms around his neck and hold on for dear life. The world was falling apart all around them, it seemed. There's no way she'll be able to navigate around without something to guide her. So, she figured the guy understood well enough that she needed his aid - again! Trying to squint her eyes to look at the scene behind them, she could only register the snake-like shape of the creature now making its way out of the pond.
"There's no way that's a machine!"