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Re: Shapeshift Town - CHAPTER 2
Lycan Queen...
Psychosis slowed as she entered the crypt after the cat, coming to a halt several feet away from where it stood scraping at the lid of the Shapeshifter leader's eternal resting place. For a moment, all she could do was stand there- this place... It was as sacred to her as it was to every other Shapeshifter who had been alive back during the last war, more so, in fact, because she and the Lycan Queen had been friends.
What was our little task force called back then? She couldn't even remember, the title she had shared with Porg and Myrn and whoever else had been among Lycan Queen's top fighters. But they'd failed... Miserably.
It took a moment for her to become aware of the cat again; it had paused in it's clawing of the coffin lid and now stood staring at her. Though it had been remarkably expressive before, she couldn't read it now. When her attention finally seemed to be in the here and now once again, it meowed plaintively a few more times, before returning to pawing and digging at the coffin.
This was the burial place of her friend... Sacred. Important.
And a cat was apparently trying to get her to desecrate it.
She shook her head. "Nuh-uh, Puss, cut it out. I don't care if you're a species-confused Lassie, you stay out of there," she said, stepping forward to pick the cat up off the stone and carry it away from the place. But as she lifted it up, it again turned those annoyingly-familiar blue eyes onto her, in an expression that was now almost stern. Again, she halted, with a look of disbelief on her face, and after staring at the cat for a moment, looked back at the tomb again, resolve wavering.
There had to be something inside there... Whatever was the deal with the cat, it wanted in pretty damn bad. And... She hadn't had the chance to pay her respects to her Queen properly, back when... After it had happened, she'd gone almost immediately into hiding, and had only seen the memorial service as it was televised in Iwaku City. She hadn't been able to stand the idea of being there... Of being present during such a public spectacle of mourning. Besides, the cursed and crippled Asmodeus had asked her to complete some tasks for him... By the time she had finished those things, the Lycan Queen had been long since entombed, and her resting place too well-guarded to approach without revealing herself... Something she hadn't felt ready to do yet.
Maybe now... Maybe now would be the time to fix that.
Turning cold eyes back onto the cat, she said firmly, "Alright, fine, I'll open it, but so help me Engel, if you disturb anything in this coffin I will throw you in the goddessdamned river." Putting the feline down on the floor, she took a deep breath, then dug her fingers under the stone lid and shoved with all her strength. She could barely budge it, scrawny as she was, but with a grating noise it slid over just an inch, and not taking a moment to rest she took another breath and pushed again, shoes sliding along the dusty floor as she threw all her weight against the heavy object.
Lycan Queen...
Psychosis slowed as she entered the crypt after the cat, coming to a halt several feet away from where it stood scraping at the lid of the Shapeshifter leader's eternal resting place. For a moment, all she could do was stand there- this place... It was as sacred to her as it was to every other Shapeshifter who had been alive back during the last war, more so, in fact, because she and the Lycan Queen had been friends.
What was our little task force called back then? She couldn't even remember, the title she had shared with Porg and Myrn and whoever else had been among Lycan Queen's top fighters. But they'd failed... Miserably.
It took a moment for her to become aware of the cat again; it had paused in it's clawing of the coffin lid and now stood staring at her. Though it had been remarkably expressive before, she couldn't read it now. When her attention finally seemed to be in the here and now once again, it meowed plaintively a few more times, before returning to pawing and digging at the coffin.
This was the burial place of her friend... Sacred. Important.
And a cat was apparently trying to get her to desecrate it.
She shook her head. "Nuh-uh, Puss, cut it out. I don't care if you're a species-confused Lassie, you stay out of there," she said, stepping forward to pick the cat up off the stone and carry it away from the place. But as she lifted it up, it again turned those annoyingly-familiar blue eyes onto her, in an expression that was now almost stern. Again, she halted, with a look of disbelief on her face, and after staring at the cat for a moment, looked back at the tomb again, resolve wavering.
There had to be something inside there... Whatever was the deal with the cat, it wanted in pretty damn bad. And... She hadn't had the chance to pay her respects to her Queen properly, back when... After it had happened, she'd gone almost immediately into hiding, and had only seen the memorial service as it was televised in Iwaku City. She hadn't been able to stand the idea of being there... Of being present during such a public spectacle of mourning. Besides, the cursed and crippled Asmodeus had asked her to complete some tasks for him... By the time she had finished those things, the Lycan Queen had been long since entombed, and her resting place too well-guarded to approach without revealing herself... Something she hadn't felt ready to do yet.
Maybe now... Maybe now would be the time to fix that.
Turning cold eyes back onto the cat, she said firmly, "Alright, fine, I'll open it, but so help me Engel, if you disturb anything in this coffin I will throw you in the goddessdamned river." Putting the feline down on the floor, she took a deep breath, then dug her fingers under the stone lid and shoved with all her strength. She could barely budge it, scrawny as she was, but with a grating noise it slid over just an inch, and not taking a moment to rest she took another breath and pushed again, shoes sliding along the dusty floor as she threw all her weight against the heavy object.
Summary: Psychosis is hesitant about opening the coffin, seeing as it belongs to her deceased friend, but succumbs to Asmodecat's peer pressure and starts to slowly shift it open, thinking that if nothing else this'll be her long-overdue chance to pay her respects.