taxonomites | [accidental visual | location: all over taxon

Just like last week, Ashley's tablet starts recording while she's in the throws of a nightmare. It's far closer to morning this time, and unlike the last, she's fallen asleep with the light on. Her thrashing can clearly be seen as the tablet is up on a ledge with a clear shot at her.

In her mind, Ashley can still feel the tank of water around her, the feel of the medication as it flowed through her veins, the last of her resistance being pushed out. Her mind is being forced back, her will bent into a corner of her brain, and from the looks of her thrashing, whatever nightmare she's having is far worse than the last.

The tablet records for a few minutes before Ashley suddenly sits bolt upright in bed, her eyes snapping open. Those who have actually seen her and pay attention to these sorts of things will notice that her eyes aren't blue this morning. They're red, a deep, blood red. Source Blood red. Ashley pulls herself together and leaps from the loft, landing catlike on the floor below. Eventually, the tablet feed will time out and that is all it catches of Ashley for the next week or so.

The blonde girl is on a mission and no one is safe.

[ ooc: ashley's cabal glitch is go now! she can be found anywhere in taxon, absolutely anywhere (all week, in fact), and anyone is free to tag in, even if we haven't planned anything out! i am willing to have her be seriously injured multiple times (in fact this will be necessary to helping / stopping her), so don't hold back! (seriously, this is your chance to do all those crazy funky power things you never get to do because it's all crazy godmode stuff. go nuts. not even kidding.) if you have questions, feel free to ask me! ]

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She takes the hit to her face, head snapping backwards as she lets go, but a moment later, she's back to swiping at him. Either the blow did no noticeable damage or she's very good at hiding it.

In this case, it's likely a little bit of both.

Her claws hurt, catching skin as his tee is shredded and he grabs at her wrists.

Not to stop her. She's stronger than him. But he grabs to hold on and snaps his head forward violently into a headbutt.

And dislodging his glasses, his eyes open and brilliant, ruby red somewhere under the streaming red light that slam into her. A light known to take down buildings with a glance.

Again, it hits, but the difference this time is that she's trying to use the headbutt to do something else to throw him off guard... something that never gets a chance to go off as the light burns into her, searing a hole straight through her. The wound immediately begins to heal, but for a few tantalizing seconds, Ashley cries out in pain, her eyes momentarily changing back to their brilliant blue color.

The pain is all she can think about and she drops to her knees, letting go of her adversary as she does so. If he gives her a second longer to heal, she'll get back up and attempt to swipe at him again, blue eyes turned to red once more.

He doesn't give her the chance. He blasts her again, still holding onto her and treating her much like he would a crazed Logan.

With no mercy.

He pushes her down, a knee on her and letting his glasses fall back over his face. "Having established who's alpha, can we talk now?"

It's a smart move and she collapses easily to the floor, the beam searing straight through her again. The real Ashley chokes on her breaths, some trace of humanity caught between the pain of the blasts and the horror at what she's been forced to do again.

Still unable to respond, she chokes out another cry of pain before managing to lift her head to look at the man holding her prisoner. Her eyes are blue still, as her body is in the process of healing and thus still feels the pain of his attacks, and tears stream down her cheeks - tears of regret, pain, and fear. It's all she can do. No matter how hard the human side of Ashley tries, she can't force the words out.

A moment later, her eyes return to the murky blood red color and she reacts the only way she can: self-preservation. Ashley teleports herself out of there and somewhere safe where she can heal in peace and prepare for the next attempt. It'll take a few hours, after what he did to her, but at least she'll be off the streets.

Edited 2012-05-19 05:43 (UTC)

The real problem is... Scott can't see the colour change. He knows something has changed, but not why her eyes are changing.

He hits the floor on his knees, confused to all hell.

He goes to get his tablet, to check what just happened, with whom and to warn everyone that someone appears to have gone crazy.

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