(Overnight Rolls
Sisters Hiding: 45 + 15 Cerys = 60
Military Searching: 23
Looters Searching: 91
Cerys Health: 52 + 15 = 67)
You awaken begrudgingly, the burning rays of the sun blinding you where they creep under the curtain and bounce off of a mirror that is placed just so. With a grunt you fling an arm over and clip the mirror, sending it falling to the floor and hiding the evil sunlight. With your peace returned you snuggle back into bed and try to fall asleep. Ten minutes later, despite your best efforts you lie awake. A quick glance over at the clock informs you it is entirely too early to be awake and with a huff you open your eyes fully.
Seeing as you probably aren't going to be getting back to sleep any time soon, you take a glance around the room, not seeing anything out of place other than your sister hanging half off of you and half off of the bed, as usual. I should probably take this time to heal a little. Seeing as it is currently five in the morning, you have plenty of time before you need to get up.
Relaxing back into the bed, you reach for your magic and run it through your body again with the goal of healing yourself. You can feel the magic get to work again, though this time it feels like it is working much better than it had yesterday.
(Cerys Health: 67 + 6 Regeneration = 73)
After the first hour, you're feeling much better and you can actually feel a lot of the little fragments of metal poking against your bare back now, having been pushed out of your body. Another glance at the clock and a sleeping Una tells you that you have plenty of time to go, so you decide to try and heal yourself again.
(Cerys Health: 73 + 6 Regeneration = 79)
When you come out of your trance this time, you feel even more little pieces of metal poking into your back, and your back itself feels so much better than it did before. Almost all of the constant aching burn has faded, leaving you in a much better mood than you were before. Another glance at the clock lets you know that it's currently seven in the morning, and you decide that since you're feeling so good that you should have a quick bath and check the house before you go back upstairs.
After carefully sliding out of Una's death grip and a much appreciated bath, you meander downstairs, glancing at the covered windows as you go. You've been in this house longer than you had initially intended to stay and the owners were surely on their way back soon. With that thought in mind, you decide that today is the day that you and Una will leave. You have a brief thought about your idea to take the train, but decide that with the military presence you saw yesterday, it would be much too risky. They would actually take the effort to check them and that was a risk you weren't willing to take.
When you reach the kitchen itself, a sudden noise catches your attention, making you duck back behind the living room wall. You hold perfectly still as your heartbeat jumps up to pounding loud enough that you were sure that it was actually audible. With sharp ears, you just about manage to make out what sounds like a man mumbling and jars shifting. The fridge?
You carefully look around until you spot a picture frame, with the light shining off of it, working as a crude mirror. After peering for a moment, you can somewhat make out what looks to be a short-ish man with ragged clothing, now that you are looking for it you can smell a disgusting mixture of sweat, vomit and smoke coming from him. Scrunching your nose up, you look over to the back door, seeing it handing open without a mark. Lockpicked, no damage. This guy knows what he's doing.
That thought in particular makes your heart beat even harder. If it had been a newbie who had jumped in because of the chaos, then you would have probably been able to scare him off, since they would have a lot to lose if they were discovered looting. But this guy was probably homeless, and had done this before. He would probably attack you if he saw you. You grimace slightly as you see him stuffing his face from the fridge, but you can see it as the advantage it is. Distracted, probably starving before this, might have a weapon. Doesn't matter.
(Cerys: Nat 100. Critical Success!)
With silent footsteps, you sneak closer to him, going completely unnoticed as he continues eating. Once you are within grasping distance you flush your energy though your entire body and throw an arm around his throat, grab your hand with your other and pull as hard as you can.
(Cerys: 10 Base Damage, +1 Reinforcement, +50 Complete Surprise = 61 Total Damage
Looter: 5 Base Resilience - 5 Unprotected Throat, -20 Ambush = 20 Additional Damage
Looter Health: 95 (-5 Malnourished) - 81 = 9)
In the middle of pulling, you feel the energy in your arms do something, and all of a sudden you are pulling just slightly harder than you were before. It's not much, but it's enough that with a sickening crunching noise, you feel something give way. Your arm pulls tight to his throat and pulls into it, crushing something with contemptuous ease, completely silencing his aborted shout of surprise. You don't even think about it as you keep pulling your arm back until it rests against something solid, pushing your knee into his back as he falls to his knees and squeezing as hard as you can.
You keep up your grip even as you feel something wet start to trickle down the side of your arm, and after a solid minute of grasping you let go of him, his body sliding out of your hands and falling to the floor. You are panting when you look at your arm, curious about the wet feeling, only to see it slicked with flecks of blood. Pale faced, you reach down to where the man had fallen and roll him onto his back, suddenly noticing the distinct lack of breathing coming from him.
The sight that greets you is one that makes you close your eyes and take a deep breath to try and calm your roiling stomach. The man's throat is completely crushed, your arm pulled back hard enough that the front of his airways collapsed, larynx squeezed between your arm and his spine. Predictably it promptly tore open against the hard bone, leaving a section of his neck where his spine pokes through the skin entirely, the only noise being near silent wheezes as an already brain-dead body tries to gasp in oxygen though airways that don't exist any more.
You take several deep breaths as you stare at the body before you remember your sister. A horrifying thought comes to mind as you sprint at full speed back up-stairs towards your sister. When you reach your room, you don't bother opening the door, instead ploughing straight through it with a flare of your magic. When the splinters fall out of your vision, you desperately look around for your sister, only to find her already standing and in the fighting stance your taught her.
With relived laughter bubbling in your throat, you move over to your sister and drag her into your arms, your entire body shaking with adrenaline. You stand there for several minutes, your sister making quiet fussing noises and trying to peek around you at the door, but you just grip her tighter while suppressing sobs. It takes you a while to calm down, but when you do you look around the room.
"Una, we are going to need to leave earlier than we planned for." A rushed heartbeat passes. "Someone tried to break into the house."
You feel her fussing movements halt entirely before she scans you up and down for injuries, seeing nothing before her eyes lock onto the slight flecks of blood that line your right arm. She doesn't say anything as she looks at you, but she quietly nods and starts gathering what little she doesn't already have packed.
You grab your hoodie, and fully clothed again you make your way downstairs, the body not having moved in the slightest. Peering out of the open door you don't see anything, so with a grunt of effort, you grab the body by the shoulders and drag it over into the corner, out of view from outside. Then you shuffle over to the door and push it closed. Resting your forehead against the door, you try to calm your rapidly beating heart, the slight shakes of a fading adrenaline rush making your body twitch.
When you hear your sister start moving around upstairs faster, you dash upstairs quickly and grab several towels from the bathroom, where your sister is brushing her teeth quickly. Moving back downstairs you lay out the body and throw them over it, hiding it from view. By the time you are done, you turn to see Una standing behind you with a serious look on her face, eyes trying to stay on your face but constantly straying behind you to the pile of towels.
There is a lump in your throat at your grab her into a hug, before moving over to the door and grabbing both your bag and passing Una hers. You both move outside before an idea hits you, making you run back inside. You open the cupboards and grab as many sweets and packets of things you can get your hands on, hastily stuffing them into your and Una's backpacks.
Now the both of you are standing in the garden, you turn back to look at the house. What are you going to do?
With the body...
[] Set the house on fire
[] Set the body on fire
[] Leave it
[] Write In...
Where will you go...
[] Go to the forest, with what you have right now
[] Go shopping, then go to the forest
[] Write In...
+ 2 XP Silently Killed Looter
