"That's odd," the teenaged girl murmurs to herself, circling the tree and frowning. She's dressed in dark colors and her dark, heavy hair is loose around her shoulders and down her back. Both her hands are securely in her pockets (or rather, one hand and one stump where a hand should be, not that any but the most observant would notice the lack of a hand in that pocket), and her dark eyes are wary but curious. "Where does it plug in?"
Surely that power for the lights had to be coming from somewhere. Maybe it's related to that ticking....
IV. The Playground
Holidays and parties are not Lirael's cup of tea. She does not, in fact, want to be anywhere near most people tonight of all nights. So while a couple college dorm-mates had tried to drag her out for faux-trick-or-treating, she escaped in short order and found the nearest odd place to hide she could: a playground with no children whatsoever, probably because it looks creepy and awful.
She settles on one of the swings, not actually swinging, and stares fixedly at the see-saw, as if she's trying to place where she's seen it before, or trying to make it do something with the power of her mind alone.
Lirael | Abhorsen
"That's odd," the teenaged girl murmurs to herself, circling the tree and frowning. She's dressed in dark colors and her dark, heavy hair is loose around her shoulders and down her back. Both her hands are securely in her pockets (or rather, one hand and one stump where a hand should be, not that any but the most observant would notice the lack of a hand in that pocket), and her dark eyes are wary but curious. "Where does it plug in?"
Surely that power for the lights had to be coming from somewhere. Maybe it's related to that ticking....
IV. The Playground
Holidays and parties are not Lirael's cup of tea. She does not, in fact, want to be anywhere near most people tonight of all nights. So while a couple college dorm-mates had tried to drag her out for faux-trick-or-treating, she escaped in short order and found the nearest odd place to hide she could: a playground with no children whatsoever, probably because it looks creepy and awful.
She settles on one of the swings, not actually swinging, and stares fixedly at the see-saw, as if she's trying to place where she's seen it before, or trying to make it do something with the power of her mind alone.