[10 - Video] Avoidance - Backdated to just after the Lord's announcement

[needsnobottle]

[None of this sounds good from where Tammy's been sitting. She'd been outside but monitoring the journals when the announcement has been made. She hadn't sprinted so hard for the barracks and her room in her life. But like hell was she being caught outside when stuff like this was going down.]

Please be careful you guys. Zeke, Rapunzel, Riah, Bobby, Abeni, Megamid...Sandrath. Please, please stay...just stay safe okay?

I'm just going to be in my room. I don't...this all seems like a bad idea.

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[thenotmagician]

Don't worry, I'm plannin' on stayin' inside for this. Want me t'drop by? Gotta visit Ezra at some point anyway.

[helluvachin]

Good, stay there. I'm going to try to stop this.

[forthebothofus]

Don't worry about Zachariah. I've got his back.

You be careful, okay?

[needsnobottle]

I wouldn't say no to the company and frankly, seeing for my own eyes that you're okay would be pretty reassuring.

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[needsnobottle]

Oh god, Riah, you've--be careful, please!

[needsnobottle]

I will. I'm not going anywhere so don't...just focus on keeping yourselves safe.

[Oh god why are people out right now?!]

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[helluvachin]

Don't worry, I'll be fine. Abeni's with me.

[Not that he actually needs her to stay safe, but he works better with his partner than he does alone.]

[audio]

[needsnobottle]

Okay, good. That's good. Just make sure you guys...make it back, okay?

[Cause she really can't cope with more people disappearing.]

[audio]

[helluvachin]

We're going to be fine. I just don't want anyone to get hurt.

[audio]

[needsnobottle]

Yeah, I know.

Kinda just wish they'd all be smart enough to stay indoors. But guess that's too much to hope for.

[audio]

[helluvachin]

Do me a favor and try to keep anyone leaving the barracks, but if they leave just stay inside. Don't risk yourself if you don't have to.

[audio]

[needsnobottle]

Ok, I can try and do that. Zeke's coming by--maybe I can get him to help me.

[thenotmagician]

[Say no more, Tammy. Because Zeke is there knocking at her door pretty soon.]

[needsnobottle]

[She opens the door, holding her journal open in one hand, and Zeke can just hear Riah's message about trying to keep people indoors. relief has her tension shoulders relaxing for a moment before stepping back to urge him in.]

Have you heard from Ezra?

[thenotmagician]

[Okay okay he's stepping inside gosh.]

Nah, but I'm sure he's soakin' it up in his bathtub.

[needsnobottle]

[Tammy takes a deep breath, trying to relax herself some more. Hearing that Riah is out and about had ratcheted up her nerves, and she still hasn't heard from Rapunzel, or Sandrath.]

Really? Is he lucky enough to get hot water?

[thenotmagician]

[Snerk]

No. But I think he's more used to room temperature, bein' a lake creature and all.

[forthebothofus]

Call out if anything happens. I'm keeping my journal with me.

[Because Zachariah wouldn't sit still.]

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[helluvachin]

Above all else stay safe. It's not worth getting hurt over.

[needsnobottle]

He's a lake creature? I didn't know that.

[Tammy closes her journal after firing off a quick reply to Riah and grabs her shoes, shoving her feet into them without undoing the laces.]

Got my hopes up for a second there. I wouldn't mind getting a warm bath without having to leave the barracks for it.

[needsnobottle]

We're just going to check on Ezra--Zeke and I--but we're staying in the barracks. We'll see if we can't keep others from leaving but...well, I can't make any promises.

[But she'd try.]

[audio]

[needsnobottle]

Will do.

And I mean it Riah. You and Abeni stay safe.

[audio]

[helluvachin]

We'll be fine. This isn't the worst we've been through.

[forthebothofus]

Just do what you can. Stick with Zeke and neither of you let the other out of your sight.

[It's amazing how things can go so wrong in the blink of an eye. A half minute apart is what killed Abeni, after all.]

If you're going together, you're a team. No heroics. Work as one.

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[needsnobottle]

I can't quite say that's comforting...yet somehow it is.

[needsnobottle]

[Heroics never quite entered Tammy's mind; not that she's a coward necessarily but keeping herself, and Zeke, safe was priority number one. Priority number two being panic because why hasn't she heard from Rapunzel by now?]

I'll stay close to him. Neither of us has big plans to play hero.

[thenotmagician]

That'd sure be nice, yeah.

[Zeke pauses]

Plannin' on going somewhere?

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[helluvachin]

Yeah, that's just best I can do right now.

[needsnobottle]

You said we're going to check on Ezra, right?

[Tammy smooths her hands down her legs, taking a deep breath.]

Figure we can check on him and make sure no one's out in the halls heading for the exits, or anything.

[forthebothofus]

Good, good.

[She almost sounds relieved.]

Like I said, call either of us if trouble happens.

[There's a pause.]

Anyone you want us to look out for? I can send them your way.

[needsnobottle]

I haven't heard from Rapunzel, and I'm a little worried.

[Understatement.]

I hope you don't see her but...if you do, make sure she's okay?

[forthebothofus]

Rapunzel. That's... not someone I know. What's she look like?

[Maybe Zachariah knows her.]

If I find her, I'll make sure she's safe.

[needsnobottle]

She's, ah...she's short, with short brown hair and big, pretty eyes. Always smiling, and her smile is a little crooked. She's...very friendly.

[This is all way more personal than Tammy really intended. Whoops.]