thearena | The Sound That's Counted So Many Days [Open]

WHO| Howard and OPEN
WHAT| Boobytraps all up in here.
WHERE| Thunder Mountain (Frontierland)
WHEN| Week 4
WARNINGS/NOTES| None yet.

Thunder Mountain is a death trap. Howard's made it that way. A few people, like Wyatt, know how to get past the precautions Howard's set up, but otherwise it's a rather ingenious array of rigged boobytraps. In a way, Howard's actually enjoyed working on his 'security system' to the little tunnel he and Wyatt and R have occupied. It's taken time to think up, time that he could spend thinking of Eponine or thinking of dying or just thinking about the excruciating pain of having his body heal up. And then it's taken time to implement.

The bridge to the tunnel on each side has had most of the railing stripped out, and the boards on the track have been replaced by rotten ones from near the water. Pieces will fall out if stepped on. A few snares lie in wait in the darker parts of the coaster, ready to catch an unsuspecting foot. There are trip-wires, as well, some of which lead to bells or collapses of piles of stuff as alarms, and some of which tug at precariously-set coaster cars. It's not perfect, and many of the traps can be easily identified or won't work properly when tripped, but it's somewhat impressive nonetheless.

The tunnel itself has been made almost into a nest. Howard's been bringing back things from the gift shops, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, and Tomorrowland pretty much every day. There are two makeshift beds for him and Wyatt made of ratty, moldy old towels and moth-eaten stuffed animals. A pile of netting sits off to the side, for catching fish. There's a firepit dug up, with spits made of sticks, and several thermoses full of water from the river.

Right now, while Wyatt's out checking some of the animal snares, Howard sleeps. It's a light sleep, one interrupted by wakefulness whenever there's a sharp noise, but it's rest enough. His hood is pulled up over his head, hiding his mangled face. The stolen souvenir clothing is so oversized it makes him look like a little grey and blue lump.

His hands clench around a stuffed Bagheera's leg in one fist and a knife in the other.

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"Nah, they ship us out for the Games. They don't like getting all the gorey stuff on their Capitol real estate." He shrugs. "Like I said, it's a no-killing day."

"Well what about on non killing days. You could be keeping them trapped until then and then killing them. Do you be having any cages?"

She had been trained to get out of knots since she was tiny and now she knew it wasn't an impossible one she untied the rope deftly.

"That's sick." He seems less bothered by a little girl talking about killing people than the idea of keeping people alive, torturing them with fear.

"What do sick be meaning?" Of course she knew what sick meant, went you got ill. She didn't know what it had to do with cages.

"Horrible. Twisted. Fucked up. Something only totally awful people would be comfortable doing."

"Oh okay." She nodded, adding the word to her steadily growing dictionary of words she had never heard before.

She didn't seem at all concerned that he considered her or her idea totally awful. "It would be solving your problem though, and your things would be being safe."

"I'm not above it if it comes down to it, but I can't see a situation where that's the best option. I'm trying not to totally sell my soul, you little sociopath."

Selling your soul was pretty selfish in the little girls opinion, she had given hers freely to the shadow god, wanting nothing in return.

"If you do be wanting to be insulting me then at least be using words that do be making sense."

In other words she has no idea what a sociopath is, but is assuming it's an insult.

"It's not my fault you've got the vocabulary of a first grader." Howard rolls his eyes. "Can you even read?"

She rolled her eyes back, "Of course I can be reading, I do no be being stupid. I bet I can be reading better than you."

"Yeah? Prove it." Howard looks around for something to make her read.

She stuck her tongue out and looked around as well, not seeing anything, but then she remembered something and pulled two notes from her pocket.

"This do be saying. 'Don't grow up too fast' and that one do be saying, 'Make it up to Howard.'"

Edited (I was a derp and forgot why I tagged this in the first place because it was late) 2013-04-20 04:59 (UTC)

Howard startles. "Wait, what does the second say?"

He doesn't take the note from her, but he does lean in.

"It do be saying, 'Make it up to Howard.', whoever he do be being." Someone stupid probably, the girl didn't really care.

"That's me. How'd you get a note for me?"

It was him? "That do be being your name?" Slowly she got her head round that, fixing 'Howard' to him rather than 'paranoid disease man'. She thought he suited the latter more, to be honest.

She wasn't sure if she liked him enough to use his name yet though, she shrugged, "It did be falling from the sky."

"Yeah, it must be..." If not for him, then for someone who knows him. A look of panic crosses his face. "Was there anyone nearby?"

The girl pulled a face, "Only that stupid man, he do be keeping on trying to be grabbing me but he do be being slow and he will no be getting me."

Howard takes a minute to process that. "Was he a tall guy with dark hair?"

The girl nodded, "He did be really tall yes. Do you be knowing him?"

Howard pauses. "Did he say anything? Or did he groan a lot?"

"No he did just be... yes groaning and making noises but he did no be talking, just trying to be grabbing me, but I did be hitting him with my shoes and running."

She wasn't sure what this had to do with anything.

Howard offers no clarification.

"Did you read this to him? Or did you just hit him and run?"

"I did be telling you he did be trying to grab me, I did be thinking he was going to be killing me, I did just be running there did be being no time for reading!" She rolled her eyes.

"Ugh, okay. Was the note attached to anything?" He rolls his eyes right back.

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