#cor.summersolstice

Aurelia's first priority was the civilians that had made the Aftcastle Mall their shelter from the storm outside. Trembling masses that may have clued into the monsters over the last months but were unprepared to be faced with the horrors that had crawled their way out of the snow. The blizzard had picked up to an absurd degree, the darkness crept through in a way that made Aurelias watch useless. The hunters teeth were on edge, the weather isn't something she could fight. She couldn't put a bullet in a snowflake or put a stake in a second fucking moon.

Aurelia pulled her jacket tighter around her frame, the intermittent power outages meant the large space of the mall refused to heat up. The chill was so great that she could still see her breath even after the doors to the outside had all been shut. Even the layers of jackets couldn't stop the hair on the back of Aurelias neck from standing on edge. Her tattoos hummed with power that itched from all the excess magic flying around in the air. Something was wrong in the air, Aurelia could feel it but couldn't pin it down.

Aurelia huffed, digging through the department store trying to find something to warm up the civilians. A flash of moment caught her eye, the disappearing shape of a figure. "Wait stop!" Aurelia shouted out, moving quickly towards the women. "It's not safe-" Aurelia was cut off as something bit her shoulder. Acid dripped, cutting through the layers. "Mother fucker" Aurelia reached for her knife, stabbing into the three wick candle that had launched itself into her should, biting down. Aurelia watched as the shelves rattled, objects with tentacles and legs, sprouting and moving.

The cold air burned as it entered Remi's lungs, their feet pounded against the snow as they ran through the town, not looking back at what was pursuing them. They had to shake these monsters loose and find Blue, and Vanessa, and Autumn, and all of Harford. There was to many people to they had sworn to protect scattered across the town as the entire world seemed to go to shit. To top it off there was two fucking moons in the sky, and Remi felt as if the very fabric of their being was tearing itself apart. It hurt to have both sides of their nature calling to them. Remi could feel the hair on their arms thicken, teeth elongating. A change that normally felt so natural was something Remi was now trying to fight.

Remi was so focused on their internal turmoil that they didn't see the other body also running down the road away from the creatures that had crawled their way out of hell but they sure as shit felt the collision with the other body. They rolled up onto the ground. Remi rolled across the asphalt, instincts kicking in as the pain laced through their body. It took a moment to pick their body off the ground; the shift becoming harder to fight in the moment. "Shiittttt" They groaned out, Remi pushed themselves up after a moment, ignoring the blood that dripped onto the snow. "You okay?" They asked the figure they had collided with, even in their pain concerned about someone else.

Looking at the person, movement behind the them caught Remi's eyes. The creatures that Remi had been running from. A large fire hose that moved like a python, a pair of shoes that Remi knew from Vanessa's closest filled with teeth and long tongue. Objects alive and with clear deadly intent. Things that Remi didn't recognize moved in the horde. "Shit we gotta move, we gotta get out of here."