Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 30
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] Time seems to slow. Lucien feels as if he has a choice here. He could run to Shuni himself, trade the box for the knife, and keep it out of Shuni’s hands—he’s not sure why, but he feels as if it’s dangerous for Shuni to have it right now. Or […]
Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 29
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] So it’s the finale tonight. So the Lords might be destroyed, so the world might end— So what? The show must go on. Better that he focus on doing what he knows, and doing it well, Lucien decides. If he panics, he’ll endanger the performance itself, and perhaps everything will […]
Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 28
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] Lucien stares into the pool, trying to see something, anything, even his own reflection, but there’s nothing there, just the blackness of the pool and the lock he sees within it. The surface ripples like water, but he cannot see anything reflected in it. He tries again to access the […]
Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 27
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] Lucien has a key, so the logical thing to do is to use it to unlock… something. What was it that the Moonlit Lord had said? That he needed to use it to open his… inner eye? He wishes he could remember the exact words she’d said to him, but […]
Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 26
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] Impossible not to be flustered at so blatant an invitation. It’s impossible not to want him, the Carrion-Eater. Lucien tries to breathe evenly. “If you have questions, I can try to answer—” “I just asked them,” Lord Crow says, with another laugh. He goes red. “Oh, I thought—that you meant […]