Topic: Lucretia's Nightmares (Present Day)

Lucy Ravenlock

Date: 2006-02-23 06:46 EST
Her fingers clawed at her as the shilloetted figures of all she had killed drew closer, and closer, for every movement they took towards her the more her fingers came to claw away flesh at her face.
"NO!" Her death-cry came, now running away like some pathetic girl from a B-Movie, but moved simply nowhere, the Shadows of which she controled was now holding her firmly in place as the moaning figures drew closer.
What were these things? Her thoughts had raged and her hands began to feel... Flesh... In them. Looking to her hands, her cheeks were grasped firmly in them.
"No! No!" Then, looking to her arms and legs - which now are naked of the cloak; the flesh back revealing bleeding muscle and whitening bone. Frantically and completely helpless she attempted to stick back on the flesh which dribbled down her in a bubbled, disappearing mass.
The figures were upon her now, and began to jump her, grabbing her in places which were melting, they threw her to the floor and mounted her. Yes, they were raping her as she melted, the pain was almost surreal and as she turned look up, Talomar was behind her, doing the deed.
"Ayreg! Help me!" The Dreadlord was screaming like a child, as the melting of flesh now had taken her hair fully, revealing her cranium, and still, melting away over her eyes. "My LORD?!"
Like magic, he stood infront of her, grinning, no mercy in his eyes. He watching her, almost satisified.
The last drops of tears streamed down her face as her eyes were now eaten, exploding out it's black puss onto the ground before Ayreg's feet, her hands moving up to the sockets, fingertips gouging out the blackness which now filled them.
"Moon... Moon?!" Looking up, Moon was next to Talomar... With Maria, laughing. Her face, was terror stricken from the nose down now, as the flesh quickened down to her neck, revealing her bloodied skull once more to the world.
What was going on? What was going on?

"HELP ME! Somebody please!"

"Now you see the suffering, caused by you. This, is the pain, all of it."

Lucretia knew that voice, and as the flesh had now past her lower back, she fell to pieces, litterlly. Her skull rolled and perception with it rolled too, untill, it was below the feet of someone knew, coming into the nightmare.
Although, this figure was not like the rest, it was younger... And when her skull finally came to stop to spin, and look up, she saw, her adoptive daughter, blood pouring out from the wound in her head next to her Fox like ears, the one that killed her. Her leg missing, leaving nothing more than a pole tied to the stump of her leg to hold her up. She looked much older, infact, she looked about seventeen. Her fox-tail, swinging slowly behind her.
"... Is it you? My-" Suddenly, the metal poke of which her daughter used as now a leg, came crashing down, and periced the skull, killing Lucretia.

Lucy Ravenlock

Date: 2006-02-23 06:53 EST
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Her cry came suddenly, as she fell back to reality, her eyes sprang open and she kicked away the bed coverings, her body thrashing about with invisible pain.
Tears streamed down her face as then came to crawl to the edge of the bed, looking around, intently for those figures. But no one was there.
Settling down, she came to place her hands over her face, and sigh aloud, realising the terror from her voice.
"A dream..." She whispered, but was it a warning? Her talk with Gav and Inara - the two on the run from Talomar had got her thinking of things that could happen to herself, if Ayreg was defeated.
No, everything was in Ayreg's hands now, and for once, she was afraid of this. Afraid that Ayreg was just like Talomar... As deceitful as herself when she was Renna of the Dark.
Then, running her hands down to scratch her collar, she then looked to the slightly small hole in her thigh - which since her feasting, closed up a little, but not too much. THe bone was still seen in it.
Her flesh was still there. But what did that dream mean?
Was she fighting for the wrong side? Was she beginning to doubt the power within Ayreg, and when he loses, she will be at the no-mercy of Talomar and Maria, of whom now was afraid of for the first time.

Something caught her eye though, as then she came to glimpse an ethernal form, creeping away into the wall. She was seeing the dead souls, of which Ayreg told her never to do without him - and now for the first she saw, her Daughter, walking away, and to disappear into the wall.
"... I'll bring you back. I promised so."

Lucy Ravenlock

Date: 2006-02-23 07:03 EST
No one came to be in at the Red Dragon that morning, infact, the bar was empty, there was not a sound. And still, she saw the souls walking about her, but payed them no attention, only, seeing them, and accepting they are there.
Why was her sight going away? She tried so hard to get rid of it but, to her dismay, the appearances of rotting corpses and floating spectors was about the place.
Moving through into the kitchen she then came to grab a raw piece of meat, placing it on a dish and turned to walk back up, towards her room. Ascending the stairs quickly she placed one foot upon the landing of the finally step, and paused. She froze dead.
Her Father was watching her, from the other side of the hall...
Fear had gripped her like never before, and as she came to walk towards her door, now trying her hardest to not see him, he talked.
"... Lucy..." His voice, did not come from closed lips, it came, from the walls.
Openning the door as quickly as she could she slammed the door, not caring if it was TOO early for the others to wake yet. Then, stepping backwards from the door, stareing at, making sure no spector had followed her, came to sit upon her bed, and eat silence.
Her thoughts raged more, as the memories of the nightmare flooded back.
"Ayreg, might be like Talomar, but I love him. Even if he does rape and find pleasure in their torture. I still love him." Perhaps this was how Maria felt, even though she was a slave to his charm. But the sight of her dead Daughter had her mind fixed on her promise.
Why was her daughter following her? Why did she have a leg missing? Lucy did not do that to her, so... Is she seeing someone else that looks like her daughter? Why are these ghosts always following her?

Something came to mind, which chilled her to the bone. Something she never thought would be possible.
"They're following me." She dropped the plate through now limp fingers, blood and the half eaten meat, spreading across the floor. "They... They've been following me, they are waiting for me to die."
Eternal torment, perhaps. But if and when she died, Lucy would be at the mercy of the souls she killed.