[Magic started to whirl around her hands, but she soon realised the issue here; ]
Is that even gonna work?! Dammit if I could remember Father's stupid occult charms-
[She'd always dismissed them out of hand as her Father's weird obsessions, but right now? When she could practically feel an ominous force closing in on them- witches? Ghosts? Something else entirely?- it was the first time she genuinely wished her Old Man were here, too. He would laugh, draw some occult symbol on the door and declare it safe-
...instead, she was huddled in this tiny pantry with Hijikata. And they had nowhere else to run. The darkness was closing in.
Another loud bang- close, far too close-
Like one of her Father's guns, or- or a being without a body slamming something- it was closer, closer-!
And a voice, whispering as if it were right over her shoulder.]
N-no...! Get away!
[Eva finally jumped back from the door, her magic pulling back from her hands into her body as she subconciously tried to defend herself- a barrier, something, anything- her magic shifting to a faint, gold light that flowed all through her and-
She vanished.
...Maybe, just maybe, Hijikata would notice the trembling butterfly on his shoulder sooner or later.]
Accurate
Is that even gonna work?! Dammit if I could remember Father's stupid occult charms-
[She'd always dismissed them out of hand as her Father's weird obsessions, but right now? When she could practically feel an ominous force closing in on them- witches? Ghosts? Something else entirely?- it was the first time she genuinely wished her Old Man were here, too. He would laugh, draw some occult symbol on the door and declare it safe-
...instead, she was huddled in this tiny pantry with Hijikata. And they had nowhere else to run. The darkness was closing in.
Another loud bang- close, far too close-
Like one of her Father's guns, or- or a being without a body slamming something- it was closer, closer-!
And a voice, whispering as if it were right over her shoulder.]
N-no...! Get away!
[Eva finally jumped back from the door, her magic pulling back from her hands into her body as she subconciously tried to defend herself- a barrier, something, anything- her magic shifting to a faint, gold light that flowed all through her and-
She vanished.
...Maybe, just maybe, Hijikata would notice the trembling butterfly on his shoulder sooner or later.]