Topic: The First Night, The First Day, The First Step

Lucy Ravenlock

Date: 2006-05-06 13:41 EST
Dirt filled her screams and weighed heavily down upon her body... The small girl trapped in a sickening Darkness. It was welcoming in a meniacal way and in some twisted sense, it was familair too! My god when would this deja-vu feeling of everything ever end?

Where am I?! What's happened?! What is going on-

A tap at her thigh was given and freed part of her motionless leg. It scraped the flesh and all she could do was allow it to happen, blood drawing from it; fresh blood, not a congealed jelly to ooze and fester out of broken green flesh that Renna should be having...

And then, the talon gripped itself around her for mand dragged out from her resting place... Light, blinding those emotionless eyes... For she now felt the air lashing at her lungs again. A gasp of breath and a sickening wheeze as the soil had already filled her lungs - along with the mucus and rotted juices of her body, to restrict any breathing...

Lucy was being manhandled by a mysterious being with talons... Inside a great hall which, unfamiliar to her eyes, was familiar to her mind.

A scream and quickly she leant up. Her bed wet with sweat and her own blood she moved her hands up to cross over her face as if she was trying to ward off some monster in her bed. The mass of short hair was sticking up in the most oddest places and she looked as if someone had rubbed a balloon across her scalp for a good few hours.
Her hands fell down to her lap as she drew the bed clothing closer to her, the lowr half of the sheeting covered in a single splotch of blood and well... As she removed the white sheets from her form there between her legs of her white and pink striped pajamas was blood...

A period...

She never had one before, nor did she even knew what the hell it was for. Naturally, she thought maybe she had a nosebleed, but the strange cramps in her stomach told her otherwise... Something she ate? Yeah thats it, it was something she ate.

A glance of scared brown orbs towards the pillow of which Nana slept... She was not there.
"Na...Na?" Lucy asked fearfully before looking around in the dead of the night, the moonlight cutting through the room to shine the Moor Cat's eyes like two searchlights. Nana sat upon the desk to the right of the door. Stareing up the ceiling almost curiously, though, it's teeth bared and the furr of it's coat completely on end - it gave soft hisses, as it's whiskers vibrated from the growl that it now gave above Lucy's head.
"...What's, wrong?" She titled her head up and the and of a sudden things seemed to make no sense at all. Was someone in her room? Her bottom lip trembled as tears grew in her eyes. The ceiling was covered in hand prints. In blood. Her blood.

Did the dream do this? Either way, she had to clean this up before Nyu or Rienna had discovered what had happened. She didn't want a row with them or even for them to think she was some sort of "bad girl" who trashes her room!

But still... How on earth did she managed to get her hands up there?

Lucy Ravenlock

Date: 2006-05-06 15:42 EST
Lucy's bedroom door opened... And firstly, her legs popped out of her room, then her head looking down the hall, then her wheeling herself out with a small bucket held balancing on her lap with her teeth clenching tightly upon the handle - to prevent it from falling and spilling the bloodied water everywhere, Nana was ploddling along behind her with mop gripped in her jaws, dragging it behind Lucy very very much struggling to keep up, but, Nana managed to do it.
Lucky for her it was dawn and still people were still asleep! She managed to sneak out and get herself a bucket and mop, but with the help of Nana - lucky for her the animal seemed to be very intelligent, dragged it back to her room to clean off the damned mess she had made al over the ceiling. Of course, the blood left a somewhat dark stain on the ceiling now and well, she had managed to get rid of all but one faint hand print.
Hopefully, no one should notice if someone decides to enter her room.

Silently she wheeled herself, entering the common room and looking for sink behind the bar.
"Oth 'ere A'a!" She called, still gripping the bucket's handle with her teeth, a lefthand going back and fore between her left wheel and the bucket to keep her moving and it steady. God, if the bucket had spilt she'd have no way to explain herself!
A sink! Yes! She quickly wheeled herself to it, and she damn well knew blood shouldn't go down it... But then, she'd still be afraid that someone would give her a row because of what she had unknowingly did to her new room...
Lifting the bucket up and over the sink, she tipped it to pour out the slightly red contents out and down the sinkhole. A sigh passed her lips as her half opened tired eyes stared out to watch the bloodied water flow away. Never to be known by anyone.
But... That symbolic movement. She was trying to pour away blood... Lucy still had blood on her hands, and, again, deja-vu settled in. A simlpe shrug as she looked down to Nana finally arriving to her side, falling to her side and laying there, panting.
"Good girl," She chided with a gentle smile to her friend, "Now no one will ever know!" A slight giggle below her voice as she finished pouring the contents... Bucket going down to the floor, she leant down with some difficulty to grab the mop and place it into the bucket exactly where she left it.

Mission completed! Moving down then she picked up the worn out Nana and lifted the cat into her lap.
"Wow, your getting heavier... I wonder how big you'll be?" A pat to Nana's head as she opened her large jawed yawn. "Well, let's go back to bed, hm?" Finally, now she could go back to bed!

"Um... Why are you up?" Came the abrupt tone of... A girl, holding a rather cute elephant stuffed animal.
Lucy paused and she and Nana looked to the girl, guilt, platered across both faces. Heck, Nana even moved her paws to stuff her face into them, pretending to sleep.
"N...Nana!" Lucy simply retorted with a slight poke to the cat's stomach.
"...Are you hurt?" The girl pointed between Lucy's legs, where the cat had now sat, glimpsing some blood on her inner thigh.
A blush. Lucy stammered for words, stuttering word which well didn't come out to be coherent... But she did manage to say something. "... Well... I... Was trying to dye my hair-"
"... But it's 6 am..." The girl persued! Rubbing her eyes after being woken up by the racket. Well, not so much a racket. She had ears like a bat you see - although not litterelly, she was damned good at hearing things and a simple light sleeper at heart, so mixed together those two attributes and so you have Lucy being caught.
"Um... Y-yeah! Early mornings are the best time to dye your hair!" A forced, almost completely fake smile, but the half woken girl simply nodded and went back towards her room.

Wow... She could not believe that actually worked! And nor was she more so suprised to see that no one else was woken up either! A sign, as she snuggled herself back into bed. The blood was dry, but, she'd have to hide it untill someone changed the bed sheets.

And, unfortunately she slept all morning till the afternoon. Missing all classes and activities. What a good start that was...

Lucy Ravenlock

Date: 2006-05-07 07:22 EST
Her fingers dipped itself into the pond and her reflection stared back up at her. She loved this new clothing, it was soft, and somewhat innocent. A Nun you could say and ironic that well, Renna dressed herself in a Black Monk cloak, while Lucy dressed herself in a purple Nun-like attire.
Maybe, maybe not...
"Ah..." Her sleeve accidently slipped into the surface of the pond and she pouted, pulling back her hand quickly and gripped the sleeve to squeeze out of the water.
The giggling behind her, though, gripped her attention, turning she came to spy the other children playing about with their ball, playing off-ground touch, and even playing musical statues... Everything, she could not and that did get her a little disappointed.
A determined look, as she glanced up to her bedroom's window, spying Nana watching with paws pressed against the glass, her face attempted to stroke and purr as she desperately tried to get through glass with no luck.

A giggle, Lucy moved herself with caution to her wheelchair. Hands gripping the back, she pulled herself up easily enough. A loud sigh as she now semi-stood upon her numbed legs, her eyes clenching as a soft and warm pain fuzzed upon her hips, they were not so numb as her legs you see - and generally most pain that happened traveled up to that un-numb area.
Her ankles twitched to place her shoes flat against the ground. And she left go. Her legs wobbled and swerved off to one side and BANG! She hit the ground hard, losing her breath as her ribs recoiled from her elbow being pushed up into them. Laying there on her side grapsing for air she rolled onto her back and then leant up again...

Attempting the same thing.

And CRASH. She fell face first.

Wobble... Crash! She fell onto her back.

CRASH! Onto her ass.

And, she got frustrated.

"Why can't I walk..." She simply retorted to her legs, giving them a thump with her fist, "Work! Work!" She urged, dragging herself to her feet.

Another failed attempt.

"Work!" Screeched, dragging herself to her feet more urgently. Now, finally... Standing... Still! Her eyes widened and she took one single step forward... Wobble... Steadying of arms...
"I... I am standing?" A smile beamed as the other children watched, one, which held the ball dropped it almost in amazement at what he wa seeing, a few others simply looked on in sympathy, or... Caution. Lucy was a shy girl and they did not know her all to well either, for all they knew she could be some kind of psychopath.

"I'm standing!" She took another slow step forward, her body hunched forward and then her knees bent - they gave away once more.

Why... Why can't I stand?! Why!? Why?! They get to stand and... I don't... I hate them!
"I hate them!" She called out as she fell, and expecting the thump and loss of air she held in her breath and... Didn't.

A few moments passed, and the gasps of children echoed out to open her eyes. "Wha?" She saw... the sky... So she was laying on the ground, right? Tilting her head to the other children, they now stared with awe and fear. Something Lucy flinched at, and now looked at her form. She was, floating off the ground?!
"Huh?! Wha... Huh!?" She looked about to ground about her... For the grass was flatted with hands, plastered everywhere.
"No... Not again!" She cried. Never had she walekd, but like as if it were natural she stood and WALKED to her wheelchair, plopping herself down and quickly wheeling herself back to her room.

They... Saw! They saw! Her thoughts raged, What am I to do now?