#ca pumpkins

----[♕] Scarlet, gold, and orange leaves contrast with a mercury-toned sky; sprays of goldenrod, chrysanthemums, and red spider lilies, for their part, extend from their barriers to intrude upon the concrete sidewalk. The boy finds solace in these colors, so different from the palette of grey and browns which characterize the other sectors. Besides, plants make lovely companions -- they will not disrupt thoughts or share secrets. Yes, a walk through this sector is the nearest to contentment he can hope to find. 

So he wanders, no destination in mind. How could this sector, unlike the others, hold so much life? A patch of pumpkins blocks his path, though they seem... strange. An intoxicating scent emanates from their smooth, orange skin, and he draws closer, extending his hand towards the vegetable...

“Uwaahh!”

A vine digs into his wrist and his arm and his chest and lifts him up, up, up into the air, leaving his feet dangling uselessly as he struggles against this rogue plant. It’s like Zagan’s dungeon, he thinks -- but that was different; there, he had a better weapon, greater strength, three others at his side... 

        No... Don’t think about things like that. Not now.

But before he knows it, he’s falling to the pavement. His eyes squeeze shut in anticipation of the impact, but instead of solid concrete, he falls into a stranger’s arms. How shameful.

"I believe the traditional method is to carve them open and light them from the inside.

♪~      Dressing up as Thoth was a great idea at the time, until things had slowly started to go very pear-shaped for the Trickster God. And by pear-shaped, it would best described as the usually red-haired deity found himself with lighter shade hair, and the monocle that he’d have had trouble putting on prior, was now not removing itself, a terrible crisis in itself considering now everything was somewhat closer in one eye. 

On top of that, Loki felt a new burst of intelligence settle within him. What was this! Had the prankster become the pranked!?

Darting among some of the sector he found himself in, he found himself nearly tripping over a few pumpkins. Turning around, he saw the very same pumpkins, this time forming themselves into vicious monsters, eliciting a fearful yelp from the deity. Fleeing from the scene, he found himself face to face with Kaito. Oh thank the Gods he was here. Grabbing his friend by the shoulders he gave the other a slight shake.

   It was safe to say this city was finding more and more ways to completely baffle him. And possibly put him in danger, too. The vines entangling his limbs were a definite show of that.

“Nngh... Come on...!”

   He’d been caught off-guard, as he hadn’t really been expecting giant, sentient pumpkins to suddenly appear and ensnare him in their vines. They didn’t seem willing (or even able) to do much more to him aside from that, so they just left him there. A few kept watch. Each time he started to loosen the vines, start breaking free, they’d come over and tighten them back up. At this rate, another kind of monster was liable to walk in and do him in for the little monsters.

“This is the most disgusting thing I’ve seen in a while!” Words contradict expression, lips showing off the most pleased smile! Even after staying here for a handful of time this didn’t compare to prior experiences, almost charmed by the detail put into the sentient (and recently murdered) squash. The explosion of course left behind a vast mess, rather than innards -- seeds, juice and the like. The squad leader took of his glasses and reaches for a ‘cloth’ in her perpetual blindness, cleaning them off only to find out this belonged to an actual person.

    There were thoughts in the back of Honoka’s mind that made her feel silly for choosing a pirate-type outfit for Halloween in the first place, but she had chosen it simply to be amusing. That’s all there was to it. She made her way over to Sector 006, letting her blue hues widen at the sight of a multitude of pumpkins stampeding in the area. Here she thought pumpkins were supposed to be nice and fun, but this brought a new twist to her thoughts.