(New Charity)
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Charity sat on the floor in her room, legs crossed beneath her, as dark magic swirled about her. The Dark Rider was somewhere in Miller's Crossing, but she wasn't sure where or what he was doing. She was more concerned with finding the outsiders, for she knew they were drawing near.
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As she focused, she could feel them approaching. Etienne had separated from the group and that made Charity smile. She would be alone and vulnerable now. As for the others, they were nearly beneath the town. It was time to divide them as a group and conquer.?
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Slowly, yet simultaneously, she crept into each of their minds until she was able to cut them off from one another, then Charity appeared to each of the travelers -- just she and each individual alone, in a place created in their minds. The place differed from person to person...someplace that brought them fear and a feeling of dread...and once she had them each isolated there, she asked them, "Why have you come all this way? You know, deep down, you cannot defeat me."
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(Flynn)
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It was disorienting for the pookah for a moment as the cave around him suddenly went grey and then reformed into a completely different scene around him.? He was back facing the tribunal that had condemned him and forced him into exile.? Which was impossible.? Not only was it 120 years ago, but the chamber was an ocean away. And there was the fact that all of the tribunal members were dead.? It had to be an illusion, he thought.? But if it was, it was a damn good one.? It looked, sounded and felt as real as he remembered it.? And the memory of that night was close to unnerving him.
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But the voice that now spoke in the dimly lit chamber was not the voice of the taoiseach.? It was a woman's voice, one he did not recognize, and yet he knew instinctively that it was the voice who whoever was behind the evil coming out of Miller's Crossing.
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"Do ah know that?" Flynn mused out loud.? There was nothing visible in the chamber that appeared to be the source the voice, making it all the more unsettling.? "Ah don' think ah do."? He chose to look at the taoiseach even though the illusion did not look back at him.? "And ah don' think you know that either, or you'd be willin' to face us instead of sendin' your unnatural revnants to try'n scare us off."
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(tags)
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Posting Order: Flynn, Chase, Sicilien, Callie, Charity (interacting with each character)
