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[socrowdedinhere]

 

*There are...remnants of bodies around the symbol on the ground, though the most prominent is the body right in the middle of it with arms slashed from elbows to palms.*

*It's not like anything Darnell has seen before, though when Hellboy has finished with the monsters... and he /will/ deal with the monsters... Hellboy will recognize it as a summoning circle, though there's something off about it. Probably why it summoned and /area/, and not /just/ monsters.*

*Other than the otherwise empty warehouse, there's a small office near the back. Poking around in there, Darnell will find it amazingly clean, but stacked neatly on the desk are papers with writing. It looks like a letter at first, but will prove to be more like a journal of, presumably, the man who killed himself in the middle of the summoning circle. He rants about the world and how terrible it is, and how he's going to end the world by bringing hell to earth.*

Darnell: ................well, he seems to have gotten that partly right. *grimacing as he reads . . . will continue poking around, seeing if he can find anything on the ritual itself - if he understands the mechanics, maybe he can try to reverse engineer how to destroy it, or UNsummon all the monsters, or.../something/*

*He'll start finding clues. Casey has seen all she cares to and is waiting by the door now, keeping watch until Hellboy can join them. Darnell...won't like seeing the solution being. It seems it may require the blood of an innocent, given willingly.*

Darnell: *grimacing - how /much/? And what constitutes an "innocent"*

Hellboy: *finally dispatches or runs off the last of the petal-heads. He's bruised, scratched, bitten, and covered in blood, but hey...he won. He'll head into the warehouse, pausing at the sight on the ground, /grimaces/* That's never good.

Casey: You beat them?! *straightens and glances at the office before heading towards Hellboy. She'll give him a wry grin as she gets close* Heh, you smell worse than I do now.

Hellboy: *smirks* Tends to come with the territory, kid.

Casey: *motions at the office* I think mister sniper found something.

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[neverasked4this]

Hellboy: *chuckles* Well, she's lucid. That's good.
Darnell: *grinning, relieved* And as ornery as ever. C'mon. *will get his arms under her and stand, lifting her in his arms* My car is just outside of town.
Hellboy: *stands with them* Black, classic, and painfully British? Probably from the 60's?
Darnell: *laughs* Yup, that's the one.
Hellboy: Saw it on the way into town. *will lead the way*

[socrowdedinhere]

Casey: *looking around as she basically hangs between the guys...* ...So...what happens to me now? *dad dead and probably safe to assume mom is too...*

[neverasked4this]

Darnell: Well, first thing's first - we need to make sure we can make contact with the outside world again. We report to our respective agencies about what happened - you'll likely be interviewed by both, just so we have as complete a record as possible. Then...find you a new family, someone who'll adopt and love you as their own.
Hellboy: *pauses to look at her, cradled in Darnell's arms* Or . . . you're smart, you're resourceful, you've got more guts than most adults, and you've seen things and /survived/ things that most can't even begin to imagine. You know there are horrors out there. We could use someone like you at the Bureau. We have a few freaks like me, but most of our agents are regular humans. I could take you back with me, and you'd be placed with someone who'd not only be family but an agent. They'd see to both your mundane schooling as well as training to help fight against stuff like this. *motions as the abandoned town around them* Whaddya say, BB?

[socrowdedinhere]

Casey: *glum, but the offer from Hellboy has her looking at him.* I...I think I’d really like that. *belonging somewhere where people will understand what she’s been through...*