Betrayal at House on the Hill

[angelcage]

[ You sleep, the ground cold beneath your cheek. The ground is hard as stone, cold marble beneath a fine layer of dust that doesn't come anywhere near acting as a cushion. The dust stirs with your breathing.


>> Wake up ]

Comments

[aliiiens]

I'm fine.

[He lets Yuma take his arm anyway, because he's actually not lying. He has a few light scratches on his wrist at the worst.

It takes a moment for him to realize the voice hasn't said anything since, and if this really is ghosts it's entirely possible the whole point is distraction, and there was never anyone to rescue in the first place.

All signs pointing to getting the heck as soon as possible.]

...Forget this. Let's go.

[Back to the window!!]

[angelcage]

[ It's a dark moonless night outside, the grounds below illuminated only by light that escapes the house from its windows. There's dark thorny bushes beneath. The garden.

The property is edged in dark wrought iron fencing, placed too closely together for either of them to get out through and topped with sharp spikes.

Distantly, there is the sound of something howling out there. ]

[trashenough]

[ At the window!!

Yuma has one hand braced on the sill, looking out — leaning out, honestly, if it's already open wide enough for that. It's pretty dark. ]

Looks like bushes and a fence... but that's weird. I can't see the city from here.

[ Not even when he squints. ]

[aliiiens]

[That's weird, but it's not something III wants to stand around wondering about. For whatever reason, it feels like the outside can't possibly be part of what's wrong with the house.]

It doesn't matter. How far away is the ground? [Can they jump to safety?]

[angelcage]

[ From the second floor, they're likely to break something if they just jump.

...though considering the falls they take in canon, maybe they'd be fine. ]

not a tag

[aliiiens]

[they'll just go to the hospital it's cool shark does it all the time]