Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28412230-20170607213356/@comment-26854056-20170614165804

Clyde hummed in thought, squeaking as the crab he had been inspected pinched his finger. He dropped it back in the rockpool, letting his sister pipe up from behind Orion's leg.

"But why was he scared? Did you watch a scary movie past your bedtime?!"

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"Ah... Sorry, Lizza, I'm at the beac-"

"At this hour?! Leon, 'you're coming home right. Now. This is ridiculous! How do you expect to get back to the apartment complex?!"

Leon's eyes glazed over slightly as she laced her words with tidbits of compulsion. Thankfully, the painkillers she was taking made it difficult for her to take full control.

"O-Oh, right. I forgot to call you today. We all moved into a beach house near the coast- I spoke to Harvard today and we forgave each other. Bonnie and Clyde seem to like the place, they play with Adrien in the rockpool-"

YOU DID W H A T?!"

Leon winced as Elizabeth's scathing tone assaulted his ears. Heavy breathing could be heard from the other end of the line, possibly due to Elizabeth trying to get herself together. After a minute of tense silence, she spoke once again, her voice scarily calm.

"Well. Goodnight Leon. We'll have a little chat tomorrow."

"Elizabeth, plea-"

She hung up. With a sigh, he tucked the phone into his back pocket, the obvious glazed look in his eye the only evidence that he was under the effects of compulsion.

No.

This wasn't supposed to happen.

Everything was finally coming together.

Why now?!

Elizabeth gripped onto her scalp, pacing circles around her bathroom. There should be something, anything, that she could do. She looked back up to her phone, fervently grabbing it and calling the first number that came to her head.

"Ophelia? Are you there?!"