#mxndanemagic

@mxndanemagic​ ASKED: Sister, ever think of escaping for good? Just one more try to get out with one of the other runaway kids? 

“... And go where?” She asks softly. Of course she’d thought of trying to escape the Maw again. Many times the thought has returned to her, but the older she gets the quicker that thought fades away.

She’s gotten so used to this vessel and it’s inhabitants. She knows she can survive here. She was lucky to get this life and she was grateful to even still be alive unlike all her friends from childhood. If she were to throw away this life now, there’d be no going back. There’d be no apologizing or begging for mercy.

And even if she did manage to escape the Maw... What then? What horrors would wait for her in the sea or even on the mainland? She wouldn’t know how to survive out there on her own, let alone trying to care for any children she might manage to escape with... She’s given up on freedom for herself. She’s accepted the Maw as the only home she has ever or will ever know.

Worry and concern painted the young woman’s features. Amaranthe had never seen will so incensed before. His cheeks were even flushed with how angry he was. She wanted to hug him, hold his hand, rub his back, anything to help him calm down. But they weren’t quite that close. And she didn’t want to overstep her boundaries. 

Oof! For a mild jostle between passerby, it actually caught the parasite off-guard. For a split second she wobbles, that instinct rises - to steal away to an alley with the only other person she’d bumped into during this torrential downpour, feed and flee before anyone even came looking. It’s rejected in only a heartbeat, though, and rather than fake an injury and enact such a plan, she steadies on her feet with the help of the wall beside them.

“Egh.. Yeah, I’m fine.” Pepper doesn’t bother to hide a lick of annoyance, but even if she had a predisposition to grouchiness, a bit of that was maybe warranted for once. She was more annoyed at being out in this rain - even if the hood of her hoodie was up, it didn’t really do much to prevent the shower from soaking through to her hair. 

ella: im just doing what needed to be done uwu

“Ah Kagari-san are you sure you want to do this? My work isn’t exactly the safest so I can’t guarantee you’re safety if anything happens...”

“L-Look out below!”

Anthony had been testing a new gadget. But it was still a prototype so the failure was.. well to be expected. Still, he didn’t expect to fall off the roof he’d been on! He landed with a hard crash to the ground, letting out a groan. He didn’t see anyone around, thank goodness, except.. well except that person who totally witnessed that. It’s a shame he didn’t have the suit on.

Izzie sipped his pumpkin spice latte as he stepped around the grocery store’s big crate of pumpkins. Picking a pumpkin was one of his most important task every Halloween season. Maybe he could convince his brother to let them rent some place with a big enough garden for proper pumpkins, he’d love to grow his own. But at the same time, if he did grow his own, he’d no longer have an excuse to drag Effie to the nearest pumpkin patch. And that was always fun, even if Effie never admitted it.

Leaning over the crate as far as he could, pushing himself onto his tip toes and sucking on his straw to get the remnants of his drink hidden among the ice at the bottom of his cup, he appraised a lovely pumpkin that was plenty big enough to make some very elaborate and fancy design on.

Decades of pumpkin carving made Izzie a self-proclaimed expert on the craft.