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caden g
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i left my body lying
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i left my body lying
- ● status;; dating madison.
● mood;; tired, wary.
● location;; the mansion.
● tagged;; gemma, oliver,
● tagged;; mercy, evie, zane.
somewhere in the
sands of time
sands of time
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- ------>'help! someone help, its stuck!' a shrill voice cut through the warm april air like a knife. caden glanced up. across the train station he could see the beginnings of a crowd forming at the edge of the platform. 'oh somebody help it! its going to get itself hurt!' whether it had been curiosity or chivalry, caden did not know, but something pushed him up from his seat on the 'train seven' waiting bench. as he walked closer to the commotion he found where the panicked shrieks had come from. a young woman, fashioned in a floral print dress complimented by a buttery yellow trench coat, was leaned over the platform's edge reaching for something down upon the tracks. 'hold me steady, i'm going to grab it!' caden was not granted with as much time as he would have liked to bask in the girl's beauty. never mind the cat, she was going to get herself hurt. with muttered apologies caden pushed his way through the crowd to the edge of the platform. he reached for the girl's shoulder and gently pulled her back. her rich mahogany locks bounced as she spun around to argue. he met her distraught eyes with a smile so soft and reassuring it could pacify an angry lion. 'i'll get him, don't worry.' caden craned his neck to see deeper into the tunnel. no lights. he glanced the other way. no lights. the only life on the tracks appeared to be the impaired kitten and nothing else. so caden hopped down on to the tracks and landed just a few feet away from the cat. the feline let out a squeak of protest as caden swooped him up from the ground. 'gotcha.' he rubbed the kitten's cheek with his thumb as he extended his arm up toward an old man with his hands outstretched. the kitten had just been lifted from caden's grasp when a loud blast echoed through the tunnel. all he had time to see was a single bright light racing toward him before-
------>caden's eyes fluttered open. he rubbed his eyes and rested a hand on the bridge of his nose as he let out a shaky breath. lately every chance he got to sleep (or whatever it really was ghosts did) he had been plagued with nightmares. memories. forced to relive his death through dreams. this had happened twice before. once, in the week following his sudden death. and twice, for a few weeks in nineteen sixty seven, when oliver first arrived at the mansion. caden didn't understand why it was happening again, let alone why it happened at all.
------>he could suddenly hear gemma clear as crystal through the wall. she was complaining, as always, about wanting to find her "purpose" as a wandering spirit. she must have been talking to someone in particular, though it wouldn't surprise cade at all if she was just rambling on to herself. she had her fair share of melodramatic moments like that. as cade opened his mouth to yell to the drama queen he heard a door slam. he threw his head back with a groan. door slamming was one of his pet peeves. heaving himself up from the ratty futon he had been laying on, he walked swiftly through the wall nearest to him. his dominating voice echoed through the halls. "c'mon guys, what's the rule?" he stopped as he leaned against the railing that overlooked the front entry way of the mansion. "don't slam the doors. i don't care about whatever else y'all want to do, as long as you don't slam the god forsaken doors. it's so simp..." his words drifted off as his eyes settled on two unfamiliar faces. a boy and a girl. caden rolled his eyes. humans. certainly not the first to wander through here. even though they couldn't see them, cade never liked the idea of humans poking around the mansion. it was sort of invasive, really. he glanced gemma's way and saw the smile creeping on her lips, one he recognized it all too well. that's what he liked about his second in command. she still had that playful aura inside of her, the one cade himself had lost a number of decades ago. it was times like this, looking at gemma's glowing grin, that he wished he had it back. "just don't break anything if you can help it." he gave gemma a tired look as mercy arrived at her side.