Draft Log #3: During v. 2.0

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone on the draft
What: Day 3-5
When: August 27th-August 29th
Where: ONCE MORE INTO THE-- ...BEACH
Summary: Like it says above. The draftees reach the beach.
Rating: V FOR VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR!!


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Which pet omen is this? I see no pet omen.

[consultmybooks]

There's always more of them. [Giles stumbles along with Helios as best as he can, blood leaving a trail behind them. He clamps his free hand over the wound and tries to stem the blood with pressure and magic. He also keeps an eye out over his shoulder, and his ears peeled, listening for sound or sign of his pursuers.

At the moment, all is quiet.]

...I'm sorry. I shouldn't have come to you.

It's over there laughing at their misfortune. )':

[folklorist]

N-No Giles. Don't, don't apologize. [ He would have done the same wouldn't he? It's not as if Giles deliberately led them back here. But he's absolutely terrified they'll find them again and surround them...and then. Helios shakes his head a shaky sigh escaping his lips as tries to remain calm through all this. ]

I-I can manage a barrier. A-And then we can heal you. [ That's lying on the thought he can manage to draw it before they come. ]

[consultmybooks]

[Giles did not deliberately lead them back here. Giles, if he had known, would have limped far off in the other direction. He's spent the entire draft trying to keep Shift Hunters away from Helios, and he's only making his best friend even more of a target.]

C-Can you teleport us? Might, um, might be faster. [Might be safer.]

[folklorist]

[ Helios looks over his shoulder nervous, extremely nervous. His attention snaps back to Giles. ] I-I can t-try.

[ It's very hard remembering the symbols and how they look when your mind keeps wandering back to the things that killed you. Helios swallows thickly letting out a shaky sigh. He can do this, if not for him than certainly for Giles. He has to do it for Giles. And if they don't manage to make it back together...no, no he can't think like that.

Helios drops to the ground on both knees taking the small dagger out from his inner coat pocket. He bites his lip as he slices his palm. No chalk, only blood this time. It'll work twice as well this way at least. ]

[consultmybooks]

[As he works, Giles does his best to keep his attention focused on the woods around them, making sure that if the Shift Hunters are really coming, at the least they'll have as much warning as they can manage.

Even so, he can't stop a wince or a concerned look at his best friend at the sound of metal cutting through flesh.]

...we'll be all right.

[Hollow words, even now, but the silence is making his ears ring. The calm before the storm.]

[folklorist]

[ The stillness only makes Helios' anxiety worse. Because it was just like before. He uses his right hand to draw out the sigil with the blood from his left palm. He works carefully, or as much as his mind will allow. He knows they will be, he'll make sure they will be. And Giles...Giles will too. Look after one another that's what they do after all. ]

W-We will. [ It's said with a slight edge of uncertainty. He tries to keep his own tone more than deadpan, more than scared or anxious about this whole situation and a bit more optimistic. And he does a decent job of it for the most part. But not even Helios can always keep up his barriers. That much the two of them know. ]