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Who: Willow Rosenberg (

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What: November Catch-All
When: November
Where: Around Trench and Sleeper Farm

Content Warnings: Standard event warnings

Sleeper Farm A (Wolfwalker Option)

She's the wolf when she wakes up on the floor of the stall, chained to the wall by the muzzle on her face, but she's getting more and more accustomed to this happening when she's asleep. It hits her after a few seconds that she has no idea where her human body is, and the realization drives her to her feet in a moment of sheer panic. The last thing she remembers is heading back to the house after leaving the Archives, which means whatever happened, probably happened on the way home. She has to get out of here.

Willow plants her feet and pulls back against the chain, whipping her head back and forth to try to forcibly pull herself free. It doesn't even budge a little, though, in spite of her efforts, and she feels weaker than normal, like she's been recovering from a bad bout of the flu. She flops to the ground in frustration and exhaustion, sides heaving.

She can smell the oil, blood, and strange fermented odor in the air she can't quite identify. And... another Sleeper? She turns her head, as though realizing suddenly that she's not alone. Maybe they can get each other out. Little help, please?

Sleeper Farm B (Human Option)

It's a stroke of sheer luck that Willow's managed to free herself unassisted, and is now free to try to find a way out. It's probably a blessing in disguise that her powers are barely accessible. She's been working to gain control over her ability to pick up on the emotions of those around her, and somewhere like this, full of pain and terror, she'd much rather not to be hit full force with it anyway. Still. There's enough getting through that she's aware that there's someone else trapped down here too. This place seems particularly ominous, and of course she can't leave someone else abandoned down here if there's any chance she can help.

She's a little nervous of calling attention to herself, though, as she creeps along the corridor, peering into the stalls to try to find someone else, so she stays quiet. She's spotted a couple of the Zealots creeping around, but she's been fortunate enough to be able to avoid them so far. Finally, she spots a figure in a corner of one of the stalls and lets out a relieved sigh.

"Hey. Hey, can you hear me?" She whispers.

Blood Crazed Zealots

Willow could feel the strange sensation of being watched as she left the school, then of being followed. A couple times she glances around, and finds herself seemingly alone on the streets. It feels oddly deserted, though - she's used to seeing more people out and about, even if it is beginning to get dark.

Another glance behind her, and she spots a hooded figure who seems to radiate a particularly malevolent presence. She's reminded a little bit of the first time she spotted Maul on the streets of Deerington, but she's already well aware it's not him. It's definitely something else. It feels like something out of a bad dream.

She picks up the pace, and tries to add some twists and turns into her usual route to try to lose them, but each time she glances back, they're still there, and still following. Puck appears as well, called forth unconsciously by her nervousness, and the fox trots alongside her with his ears pinned back against his head. He doesn't like it either.

She takes another look behind her as she turns a corner and crashes straight into another Sleeper, with a startled cry, and she immediately backs up and looks contrite. "Oh! Um. Sorry - Sorry. I - uh, thought you were something else."

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"Okay, okay," Willow nods. "We'll try to stop it. First we gotta find a place to lay low for a few minutes, so we can make a plan."

She pauses, looking around. She doesn't recognize the street they're on at all any more. "Um. There's gotta be a safe house, or a - a lamp, or something around here somewhere, right?"

Luz nodded, then thought a moment. "Times like this I really wish I could teleport, but I think that's something maybe Luna knows how to do. As far as what I can do, I might have a plan on how to get the jump on our captors. It's a little idea, and it's experimental, but it just might work!"

First thing was first though. Getting a place to hide.

"Hold on a moment."

Luz reached into her pocket and took out a hilariously small cowboy hat. A moment later there was no Luz but a crow that had a cowboy hat and was taking to the sky, seemingly flying off with no rhyme or reason. A few minutes later though, the crow appeared behind Willow and it cocked it's head, losing the hat, and there was Luz again.

"There's a lamp about two blocks from here, but we better be quick. I'm seeing those creepers moving around the area too. I think they might have an idea we'd try to hide that way."

Willow raises her eyebrows. Teleportation spells, in her experience, are particularly difficult and dangerous. Her very first one took days to recover from, and her last two saved the lives of her friends, but left her unable to defend herself against Salem's attacks. It's a bit of a moot point now, though. That magic is lost to her here.

She watches as Luz transforms into the crow and goes to scout around. The little fox at her side looks around and growls. He can feel the zealot closing in on them, and as Luz returns and turns back into herself, the street suddenly seems to get a whole lot darker.

Willow nods at the explanation and grabs Luz's hand. "Let's go!"

Luz was really going to have to talk more with Willow about magic stuff, at least in theory. She knew that any little bit of instruction that she could get would help, so it would be silly not to ask, but definitely at a different time.

Luz moved with Willow, though as they walked Luz suddenly started to feel herself drag a little. She though that the Zealot was just chasing them, but no. She was learning now that they had more at their disposal. It was like there was net that was being cast over them.

"Willow. I...I don't think we can move any further."

They're walking when really, Willow would rather run for the lamp, and it's a pretty solid warning that something is affecting them. She doesn't look too alarmed until they're both stopped all together. She grips Luz's hand a bit tighter and strains forward, trying to fight whatever unseen force is stopping them in their tracks.

"Come on, come on..." After a moment, though, she's forced to admit defeat, and she looks around in alarm. She knows Luz is a capable fighter - she saw her fight at the Gate, it's just a matter of both of them keeping their heads and being smart about it, even without the time to preplan.

Yeah, it was really a good thing that they weren't in the farm: outside was at least not an enclosed space, which meant there was at least several different options that they could take. And here, well, they'd have to improvise.

"Stay with me," Luz said softly, because now they were going into experimental mode. Luz had been practicing her glyphs in the tower, reading up on what she could, and had learned that with the right application (and the holding of one's breath) they wouldn't be visible. Luz knew if they were going to get out, they'd need to use a little bit of a trick, and that should at least fool them into thinking they'd escaped.

Sure enough, them disappearing confused the Zealots enough that they'd dropped the block, and that was more than enough time. Luz threw down her vine glyph and up they went, giving them a high enough vantage point.

Luz motioned for Willow to spot their attackers. Surely she could see them now? Also, Luz is turning a little blue, as she was still making sure they were invisible].