Around the perimeters of the school grounds: Friday afternoon [12-9-11]

[walkswithcoyote]

This was... beyond surreal. Chunks of the island were disappearing and grey suited people were attacking and Mercy just didn't know what to do. All she could think of was to check around the perimeters of the school ground, see if there might be other areas where the auditors were trying to get through. At least her nose might prove useful in that regard.

Everyone else seemed occupied, so it was pretty easy to slip out a side door to go see what she could discover.

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[walkswithcoyote]

"Get up and run!" Mercy shouted at him, veering to the side as the bubble shifted and narrowed out. She tried to run down that corridor, but it was moving too quickly.

Stone of a Peach.

She spun around looking for another way out - a hole or crack or anything.

"Damn it, RUN, Billy!" she screamed again, putting her head down and shifting forms as she charged toward a rapidly narrowing opening.

Maybe, just maybe, with the additional speed of her coyote form...

It was close, but she reached the opening and made it almost halfway through before one of the edges of the Nothing touched her.

And then she was gone, leaving only the echo of her howl behind.

[selfhelphero]

Billy totally would have run, but he was a little busy staring at the space where Mercy had been. Finally, he snapped out of it, and scrambled to his feet. "I want to be behind the forcefield, I want to be behind the forcefield," he chanted, shutting his eyes against the dark as he felt the spell kick in.

When he opened his eyes, he was on the steps of the dorm building, breathing hard like he'd run the whole way instead. After a moment, the realization of what Mercy had done started to sink in, and he wasn't sure whether to feel guilty first, or angry. She was so getting yelled at when--if--she came back. For now, he'd just be here, thinking of all the ways he could have protected her instead.