Back of the School Grounds: Sunday night [12-11-11]

[walkswithcoyote]

And suddenly there was a coyote running hell bent for leather towards the school, leaving clothes flying in its wake. After about 30 feet or so, the coyote slowed, turned to examine its surroundings, then howled in delight. After a moment of wild dashing around like a young pup, it calmed itself, collected the clothes carefully in its mouth and trotted off over behind a clump of bushes.

Completely coincidentally, and obviously in no way related to this, a short time later Mercy made her way out from behind the self same bushes, smiling up at the stars and the huge moon as she headed towards the school.


[OOC: Open for anyone who might be looking for Mercy or who might want to come see what all the howling is about.]

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[selfhelphero]

As soon as he heard that people were reappearing where they'd disappeared, Billy headed straight for the edge of the school grounds where he'd lost Mercy. When he spotted her, he broke into a grin and ran up to her. "You're back!"

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy threw her arms around him just wanting to hug him. "You made it!"

[selfhelphero]

Billy wrapped his arms around her and hugged her back tightly. "If you ever do something like that again, I will strangle you," he said, only partly serious. "What were you thinking?"

[walkswithcoyote]

She looked at him very seriously. "I was thinking that you still had family and a world waiting for you, so if only one of us could get out it should be you."

[selfhelphero]

Billy frowned, and hugged Mercy again. "You didn't have to do that. You don't need to sacrifice yourself for me or anyone else, even if you think you have nothing waiting for you. That's so not right."

[walkswithcoyote]

"I thought I could make it out too," she said quietly. "I'm fast. Really fast. The thing just... shifted on me and I couldn't quite get there."

She hugged him tight for another moment.


"And I know I don't have to make sure somebody gets out first, but honestly, I wouldn't change my decision."

[selfhelphero]

"Well...if there's a next time, don't do that, okay? We were in it together," Billy said, smiling softly. "I'm so glad you're okay. It's been an insane few days."

[walkswithcoyote]

She wasn't promising that, but she was happy to shrug and let him assume.

"I'm glad to be back. What happened here while I was gone?"

[selfhelphero]

"Oh man, it got crazy," Billy said. "In the end, everything was gone but the library, so we all had to hide in Special Collections, and there were these toadstools and we had to camp out, and then all of a sudden we ended up in this tower and we had to like, remember everyone to bring them back. I'm still not sure how that worked, but I'm not going to complain, because it did."

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy blinked at him, trying to take all that in. "Okay... Well, I'm glad there were enough people left to remember all of us and bring us back, however that worked."

[selfhelphero]

"Me too. Especially for certain people."

Yes Mercy, you were getting another hug. Billy would stop eventually, really.

[walkswithcoyote]

Mercy wasn't about to object. She hadn't gotten many hugs since her foster parents died.

So she hugged him back. "Thank you, Billy. Thank you for remembering me."