@ghostlack said: you look like you just saw a ghost. * from: 400 dialogue prompts, accepting.
ah. this can’t be.
it’s funny, how they nearly refer to them as margot. how they’re so tempted to berate them for wearing the mask, stealing their kill, nearly jeopardizing what was meant to be collaborative effort. after all, who else could it be? her name is right on his tongue when the latter finally pipes up, voice masked behind the same device taped inside his own ‘guise, but unrecognizable all the same. &. that’s where it all starts to click. differences in stature are made so much more apparent, the slight alterations in cloaks, &. at finally it took the small detail of which hand that hunting blade was held in to indicate what they’d suddenly been dreading. limbs are froze, their advance across viscera - painted floors come to a halt. every nerve seizes. that is not margot.
it stays like that for a while. no utterance, no movement. god, there would be no noise were it not for the static hum of an air conditioner &. the sound of lively fatality. they’re the first one to break out of the shared trance. there’s a careful step to the side, quiet, so quiet in fact that it can only be heard as silence. concealed eyes crawl down to the man on the floor, writhing, letterman jacket bathed in his own hemoglobin. killer notes his twitching leg, slashed &. useless, &. watches as his hands try to pull himself across the floor, tries to put some distance between him &. his unmaker. there’s a strained cry when his fingernails can’t find purchase in the wood. brutally &. morbidly futile. [ you try to feel pity for him, but compassion fails you. death will embrace him in due time. &. he deserves it, anyway. ] they direct their vision back to the imposter / the faker / the stark imitation of another copycat &. tyler almost has the fucking nerve to laugh at the snide remark. eventually, he does: an ugly, strained giggle that barely teeters a whisper. it’s nothing out of humor.
❛ oh, you cheeky little shit. ❜ said with a sneer from beneath the ‘guise, &. they dare to take a few more deliberate steps; slow, kept at a careful distance, circling. their grip on their hunter’s knife is held more tightly, aching, ready to lacerate. but they won’t strike. not just yet. ❛ who the fuck do you think you are? ❜













