Log:Halcyon Daze, Part 2

2008/09/27 	 Halcyon Narosia 1

Suddenly, Halcyon experiences a strange twisting sensation as space warps around around her. It's a vertigo inducing trip. Halcyon finds herself trapped between landscapes: the first is the bank robbery where events seem to be proceeding with out her. The second scene is something completely different. It's a darkened interior room where a wild-eyed man stares back at Halcyon. There's a spark of electricity from behind him, and in that moment Halcyon can see her reflection in the glass that separates her from the man. He's surrounded by monsters and beasts: werewolves, vampires, mummies, axe-murderers.

To everyone one else, it simply appears that Halcyon has gone invisible.

Once she can think in a clear manner, unsure what to make of what she sees, Halcyon stares, frozen by indecision.

The wild-eyed man stares back at Halcyon through the glass. He seems a bit shocked himself. "Who in the world are you? You're not Caleb..."

Halcyon taps the glass experimentally, bewildered by the statement, answering the question with deepened shadows: 'halcyon'

The wild-eyed man reads. "Halcyon... Fascinating." He turns and shouts to his collection of monsters. "More power... I must have more power." He turns back to Halcyon. "I must have more power if I'm going to bring you fully here."

The wild-eyed man strokes his beard before pointing a finger at Halcyon. "Becaause... I want your power..." He turns his finger back to himself. "To be my power." In the background, one of the werewolves works at the controls of a machine.

Halcyon decides she probably isn't in the same world she knows and is familiar with, nor is she likely to be in the one she was born in, and tries to open a gate into the realm of shadows.

The gate begins to open normally, but it snaps shut abruptly before it's fully formed.

There's a giant shower of sparks as one of the machines seems to reject how it's being used. The werewolf manning the controls growls angrily. The man doesn't seem to notice at first. He's smiling at Halcyon. But then his smiles starts to fade. "Wait... we're losing her!"

Halcyon envelops the area in utter silence, snuffing the sound from the group of people and drawing up tendrils of shadow from below the man.

There's something about the glass that separates Halcyon from the man that seems to block her powers from affecting the people on the other side. Another look reveals the glass to not be a simple wall, but a cylinder that's enclosed around Halcyon.

The man turns and runs to the machine. "Stabilize the interface!" he shouts.

Halcyon silently screams, focusing a shadowy tendril at the cylinder wall as hard as she can force it.

Simultaneous with the smashing of the cylinder walls, the twisting vertigo sensation returns. The lab with the mad scientist and the monsters is gone, and Halcyon is once again on terra firma on Grand Street -- the scene of the jewelry store robbery.

To all those at the scene of the robbery, Halcyon simply reappears again.

Narosia sees Halcyon waver into existance and turns on her heel, opening her mouth to ask questions-then rethinks it for now.

Halcyon looks around wildly, a shadow tendril forming around her protectively, very fierce-seeming and spikey.

Narosia brings out her own shadow tendril, moving to interlock the jagged tendril with the equally spiked version. "Halcyon."

Halcyon looks at Narosia, puzzled by the appearance of the other darkling but looking relieved. The shadow tendril slides away from reality as Halcyon lifts a hand to wave bewilderedly.

Narosia says, "Halcyon...did you traverse somewhere?"

Halcyon nods slightly, shrugging slowly as she looks up at Narosia from outside the ruined jewelry store that was just given a robbery attempt. The police are around and the villain is being led away to a bad place like prison.