𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔡𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔢 𝔉𝔲𝔯𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔣𝔢𝔩𝔡
Role: Rogue Tagged: Ricardo Hades
Black, pitch black. It was so very dark down here.
Magdelene would squirm around in her cage, pushing up against the boards. It had been so long since she'd moved, since she'd felt awake. The pressure was still threatening to make her head explode. Maggy pulled her arm up, feeling it snap and unlock. She pressed her hand against one of the rotting wooden boards. Had she really been under the ocean so long that this wood was rotting? She wasn't sure. Everything was so hot and she just needed to move. Just once.
Magdelene didn't notice when water flooded the cramped chest, She felt pressure move down her throat and into her chest, but it didn't register that that was salt water. She was filled to the brim with it. She felt the board disappear under her hand completely, and her eyes popped open in the darkness. It was gone. One whole board, gone. She pushed her arm through, and unlocked her other arm to push another board away.
She repeated this process, enough wood being moved away that she was able to see light, bare wisps of light. Was it day already? She couldn't tell.
Slowly, she let all of her bones and joints pop in and out of place, gaining free movement again. She pushed up through the hole in the chest she made, her dress snagging on the chains. No, not like this. She would not be kept down here by something so stupid. Eagerly she tore at the chains, maneuvering around to try and get them off. No use, she only ended up more entangled. Eventually, she stopped moving, letting the current pull her back and forth. She felt around herself, tugging chains up. It took a very long time, and a lot of strength that she just didn't have, but she eventually was able to pull them out of the sand. Even if she had to take them with her, she would be able to swim. And so, she did.
Magdelene glided through the inky black waters, up and up she went. She threw her head out of the ocean, immediately choking. She coughed water up, some sort of slimey substance accompanying it. Nevermind that, she needed to move. No more was she held by the sea, no more was she prisoner of time and decay.
Whipping her head around, she caught glimpse of lights, and began swimming towards them. So many bright and fuzzy orbs, all different colors. Her eyes were degraded from sea water and lack of use, all she could make out was that they existed, not their source.
The tide was getting rougher as she swam, signaling land soon. And as she pulled herself up onto the bay, Madelene felt sand.
Real sand. She grabbed into it, letting the tide wash her up like a dead fish. She lay there on her back, staring up at the sky. She let the waves run up over her again, covering her in sea foam.
No matter how sore she was, no matter how ill, the one feeling that had been plaguing her forever remained:
hunger.She picked herself up, covered in sea foam and weed alike, sand sticking to her dress and chains dragging where she walked. She pulled herself forward, the smell of sea air drifting out of her. It was replaced by something that made her lose all sense. Something she had missed so much.
Racket and noise filled her head as she stuck to shadow. Despite the crackle of fried foods, that scent much stronger than what she was going for, it just didn't catch her interest. Like a ghost she drifted closer to the origin of the smell. A fresh wound, not yet dried. She quickened as much as she could, moving under a tarp and behind a food vendor's stall. The light from in front of the stall was creating a white haze in her peripheral vision. However, she was able to see in dim lighting behind. She waited for just a moment, hesitating. Where was the source? Soon she found out, when a tall brunette man stepped out behind the stall. He was holding his hand up, an open cut from a kitchen knife dripping to the grass below.
There were no screams, but a struggle did happen. A short one. The gangly man had gotten a good grip on Maggy's hair, but it was too late. By the time he was on the ground, he was nearly dead. The vampire had made her first kill, and quite a mess with it. A puddle of blood gathered around predator and prey. Magdelene had torn the poor man's jugular out completely, getting what she could into her mouth.
Fresh-kill scent would spread throughout the whole festival before long, but it didn't mother Maggy. She was just so, so thirsty.