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If you're following this series in order, click here next . For more information on the entire series, read the "'Demon's Due' Defined" journal entry here [link] or the "'Demon's Due' Plus" journal entry here [link] .***********************************************
The Scholar doubts that her former captors are among the undead suspended from the ceiling, but she knows she must do something to contain the horror. Back in the corridor Elina noisily pushes the storage room door closed and withdraws her magical key from her robes. She summons forth the charm's power to lock, concentrating to manage the heavy aura of power floating in the air about her, and touches the key against the wooden surface. The image of the unseeing eyes leering at her from their high perch causes the hackles to rise on her neck as she completes the locking spell, and she is uncertain whether she really can hear the shuffling of several feet behind the door above the pounding of her heart and panicked breathing.
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You'd think with those funky, magical spectacles, she wouldn't have to...
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Watch out, Elina! Mick Jagger's sneaking up behind you!
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Eloquently and appropriately put!
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Stay away from this Luther, let the nice zombie do his work! x_x
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That Luther! Always getting in the way!
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This doesn't look good for our plucky heroine...
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if this were a movie, this would be the part where everyone would shit themselves cause of the sudden jump scare.
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Elina:" ... and after hours of hard thinking i used my scholarly super brain to excogitated that ingenous plan to seal all the side doors with my high charged magix key so that none of those zombies can get in !"
Guard:" And what about the main door ?"
Elina"Ehh, the main door ... ????"
Zombiehorde:" RAAAWWRRRR .... "
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Elina: *sniff sniff* Oh god Dude!!! Shower? Really?
Zombie:" ahh C'mon Lady! You try affording soap on what Jarvil pays us!"
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This feels more like a jump scare than her comeuppance. It may drive her to her reckoning, however. She's making the classic horror movie protagonist mistake. I would personally look around before casting a spell that required all my concentration.
One may argue it's slightly out of character for her to be so unobservant, though. I guess perhaps the ceiling of zombies put her in a bit of a panic.
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Yeah, I see your point there. I should probably indicate that she checked in between the last page and this one. She hasn't spent a lot of time traipsing through underground warrens, as it were, and she's very concerned about what's on the other side of the door. I'm thinking that the creature wasn't just sitting there waiting for her, but was in fact moving down the hallway toward her location while she was concentrating on locking the door (for something like 10 seconds, maybe). I'm enjoying these checks on things! Thanks!
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Haha no problem. I'm just fussy.
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"To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall, now dash away, dash away, dash away, all!" Hmmm. Sounds a little jolly for the moment, I guess...
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Unless she ends up wrapped up like a present...lol.
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Damn zombies just don't know when to quit...
I like the posing of the undead guy/gal (hard to decide, which is part of the fun) in this one, though somehow I don't think she's going to fall to the same mobbing tactic twice if that rigid posture says anything....
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Thanks! Zombies don't know when to quit, indeed...
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i got the feeling that this zombie will know how to make use of the fact that sheΒ΄s running around with a rope^^
nice work as always
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Hehe. She just locked herself in, right?
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Well, she locked the door to the storage room, with herself on the outside of the door. So, technically she's locked out of the storage room, and locked in the hallway with this zombie and the other two.
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Well, then 3 of them had better be enough to catch and strip her.
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Don't make me fork you again, because I'll do it.
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Elina: "Umm, may I help you?"
Zombie: "Hey! How'd you know I was back here??"
Elina: "You villains are always the same; always forgetting to put your cell phones on vibrate. Well? Better answer it..."
Zombie: "Aw crap, I keep forgetting and this always happens! Mind waiting while I...?"
Elina: "Oh sure, take your time. I'll be here..."
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Reminds me of the critical showdown between Sherlock Holmes and Jim Moriarty at the end of the first season of BBC's Sherlock. If you haven't seen it I won't spoil the surprise further, but let's just say for one of the pair, stayin' alive in the face of such an epic showdown has more than one meaningβ¦!
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That was an interesting confrontation.
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Shit, girl, lookout behind youuuu! Ah well, maybe this way her clothes will fall off...
Nice work, Jeff!
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"Ah well, maybe this way her clothes will fall off..."
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