[accidental visual | location: all over taxon | dated to morning]

[sourcebloodaughter]

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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[thornandmoss]

It is easy enough for Ashley to break away from the vines, and Briar sighs, reaching down into one of his boots and pulling out a knife. He hoped to save these for a surprise. With the ease that only comes with lots of practice, Briar sends it sailing straight for her.

Come on, Ashley. Get a little closer.

Briar deliberately avoided using his wrist knives. As the quickest to draw, he wants them available when she closes the distance, to buy him time to get the vines surrounding him to a height that will do some damage.

[panicswitched]

His knife catches her in the shoulder, but the only sign that she's felt it at all is how her shoulder pulls back at the force of impact. The knife sticks out of her shoulder like a flag and for a moment, she stares at it. It's not enough to snap her to herself and soon enough she ignores it, not even bothering to pull it out of her shoulder just yet.

Instead, she moves directly into his trap, striding forward like a cat that thinks it's got its prey right where it wants it.

[thornandmoss]

Briar hadn't been sure if the knife would hit, and a part of him is disappointed it did. He really doesn't want to hurt her.

When she enters the circle, Briar sends his magic in two directions. Most of it, heavy vines of power, surges into the vine seedlings, forcing them to grow quickly, gaining wicked five inch long thorns as they do. A tiny tendril of power, though, is reserved for undoing the knots in the hemp cords at his wrists. A knife slips down into each of Briar's hands, and he takes a big risk, slashing out at her stomach with it and hoping the other knife will be enough to protect him while he does.

Briar needs to keep Ashley busy for long enough to get the vines long enough to do something. Already, they are a foot or more in height. He keeps pouring magic into them, feeding the vicious thorns on his anger at their captors for doing this to Ashley. For now, he tries not to think about what he himself is about to do to her.

[panicswitched]

The first slice does the intended damage and Ashley hisses as it cuts through her shirt and into her stomach. Briar will notice that while the attack draws blood, no drops of it actually fall, as the wound heals almost instantly. She hadn't been expecting knives. She'd been thinking he would do something plant-like, but now she's focused entirely on him and his knives, instead of the plant-life around them, so whatever he's got up his sleeve there will likely also surprise her.

She hisses again and swipes at him with one of her taloned hands. The Ashley deep inside does not want to hurt him, but unfortunately she's not in charge at the moment.