Untimely Bystander || @the-lonely-traveling-doctor
It’s been a while since she’s pursued a witch who was worthy of her time.
Dlanor surveys the fragment’s entrance. It’s a simple hole offering a peek into a nebula of medieval chaos and destruction. Screams pepper proximity and distance. Terribly barbaric, down to the tall bloody spires and crumbling buildings. At face value, it’s easy to find and seal. Other district agents, however, have failed to return from here alive.
A glance to her aides would ensure the former in the event that the Chief Inquisitor might perish. She resolves upon willingly entering unholy ground, however, that the latter won’t be the case. Her presence will alert the furniture guarding the gateway, and grotesque monstrosities are expected, so she appears with a flash of light, sword at the ready.
She wasn’t prepared, though, to be met with humans swarming around a blue police box that she hadn’t seen for a long time.
The mortals turn her way with an odd gleam in their eyes, and she regains her composure just as one lunges at her. It’s cut down without a second thought, down to the skeletal creature inhabiting its body. Magma boils beneath her porcelain complexion. Dlanor certainly received her expectation of grotesque monstrosity; how many had this witch created to possess the mortals of this fragment?
Another two join the floor before Dlanor dashes out the nearest exit, a smashed window just to the side. A chase undoubtedly pursues as she weaves through rubble and corpses, but she’s counting on it. There’s no sight of the long-coated man who pilots the contraption she left. Did he trap himself in there, or had he run off deeper into the fragment? Was her target pursuing him?
The archbishop hopes that the latter isn’t the case, though it seems it was the more plausible option. There’s no physical trail but the one she leads behind her. Magic permeates the air, though, wafting in the rank aroma of blood and heresy.
She follows it; has to. This witch will die by her hand, or else someone else she knows might fall prey instead.