Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 20
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] Lucien hesitates. Of course, he has a lot of questions for the Moonlit Lord—important ones, given how desperate for information he is. But there is one question that feels more pressing than the rest. He rolls his head against her shoulder to look up at her, at the strange night […]
Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 19
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] “Thanks, Ran,” Lucien says gently. He doesn’t have the power to send them on break or give them the rest of the night off, and can’t imagine that he himself would be capable of going back to work the same night he met a Lord. But he at least knows […]
Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 18
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] Shuni is putting the plan on him? It does feel a little to Lucien as if he’s being put on the spot, but he supposes that given the amount of information he just dumped on Shuni, maybe Shuni hardly knows where to begin. Lucien sure felt that way earlier with […]
Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 17
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] For a second, looking at this dying Lord in front of him, Lucien longs to make himself wake up. Perhaps he can try to draw another deep breath of the airless air and think about how he’s not breathing, which has always woken him up before. If he wakes up […]
Halloween I.F – “Final Call” – Day 16
[Please read the Instructions before jumping in] No pulse. Shuni doesn’t have a pulse. Lucien manages to keep himself from freezing through a pure act of will. He has to be wrong about this, right? The pulse is hard to feel in the wrist anyway; he’s just not picking it up. “Fair enough, yes,” Shuni says, still […]