The Forest

[dont_turn_around]

The woods are lovely spooky, dark and deep...

The mist has not lifted.

The trees are still.

There's not so much as a bird singing or a fox trundling through the undergrowth.

Even the paths seem to lie in waiting.


Deep in the forest is The Tree.


If you think you know where it is...you don't.

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[flip_the_lights]

Olivia gets her feet under herself and -- wincing a bit -- clambers to standing. Her first couple of steps are a little unsteady; gradually, though, she gains more traction as she approaches the tree.

As she breathes out, quietly letting go of the mental lever holding the gate open, the sickly-looking glimmer gives one last halfhearted jump. Then it's gone.

"Mike," she repeats, softer. "Are you okay?"

(...Aside from the bullet holes and the knee to the crotch, anyway.)

[will_scarlett]

The forest has changed, its strange and Will sits on a fallen branch and looks up at Mike.

Then considers the throwing star in his arm, he's going to have to get that out.

[ami_imperfect]

Dani glances up at the tree where Mike is, before walking over to Will.

"I think I can get that for you, if you don't mind," she offers, pointing to the throwing star.

[mnt_mike]

The coughing gets quiet, not because there is no need to cough, but because the one doing the coughing is unsure of where he is and is trying to keep quiet.

Mike foolishly shifts his weight, and the thick bough beneath him cracks in a rather unsettling way.

"...hello?"

[flip_the_lights]

"Hi." She manages a wan smile. "It's Olivia Dunham. Do you remember me?"

[will_scarlett]

That creaking isn't good,

"Ye need to get down from there 'fore thebough breaks. If ye can, lass, but it can wait till we're back. I've 'ad worse."

[a1enzo]

"Do you need any help down?"

[ami_imperfect]

"It won't take long, but it might feel a bit weird," she says, putting a hand on his arm.

[mnt_mike]

"maybe?" It's unclear whether he's answering Olivia or Enzo at this point.

"....am i in a tree?"

[flip_the_lights]

"Yeah." Not unkindly. Olivia scrubs the back of her hand over one of the dirt smudges on her cheek. "And you're injured enough that I think it might be a good idea if we help you down."

She glances to Enzo and Dani as she says the last.

[will_scarlett]

"Aye, dinna think I can do much to aid ye just yet," After the throwing star is out then he can do more.

[ami_imperfect]

"Okay." Her hand remains on his arm, but the other one moves to the throwing star. She turns it intangible before phasing it out of his arm.

"There. Got it."

[mnt_mike]

"i'm all sticky," he says to no one in particular. "what is this? It...ugh gah."

Someone should really learn not to use taste as the go-to sense for new things.

[flip_the_lights]

"Don't eat it," says Olivia, a bit sharper this time. It sounds much closer to her Official FBI Agent voice than before. "It's a neutralizer. I don't know how toxic it might be."

Lower, to Dani: "Can you go and get him down?"

[will_scarlett]

That's one of the odder ways that Will's had something taken out of him and he makes a bandage with his shirt,

"Go on an aid 'im if ye can."

[mnt_mike]

"it's not like is going to give me cancer," he says to no one in particular. "i'm already radioactive."

There's an edge to Mike's voice that doesn't usually exist. This is the surest sign that he's not doing well. Not at all.
It's hard for him to breathe, and while there's far too much blood for him to immediately tell what's wrong with his arm, he knows it's not good.

[a1enzo]

Enzo frowns. "Maybe I should check him out quick before you bring him down," he tells Dani, offering her his hand.