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 Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 5:30 pm
Quote: The Watcher in the Mud (13) : With so much rain lately, it's not surprising to find muddy patches throughout the city. Aside from being very slippery, there's nothing notable about most of them. Most. At first, there's only the strange sensation of being watched--and then, you see why. The eyes. There are eyes in the mud. Two, staring up at you, and nothing else. No face, no form. Sometimes the mud is totally flat, sometimes it's sunken into the ground a bit, sometimes it's built up like a small hill--but the eyes are always the same. Blinking, occasionally. Tracking you. Moving, if they need to--with surprising ease. Kick them, disturb the mud, or try to bury them, and they'll simply roll or swivel back into place to continue watching. Even if you try to leave, they'll move until they run out of mud--and then watch until you disappear from sight. If you linger long enough, the eyes will eventually grow heavy and slowly close before sinking beneath the mud.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2026 5:35 pm
Dzhalindite had been busy lately, just going from place to place. She was now near the water where it had seemed to have read lately. She saw a large mud puddle. She didn't think anything of it till she saw a pair of eyes in the puddle. At first, she thought someone, or maybe a youma was playing a joke, but she didn't sense a youma, and she didn't think even someone playing a joke would want to lie in the mud like that, right? She didn't really want to get too close since they gave her the creeps even as the nega solider in this equation. So she stood there like an idiot watching the weird mud puddle.
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2026 1:06 pm
Bélénos loved summer. Not so much some of the freaky s**t that happened in Destiny City over the course of summer, of course, but it was the best time for horseback riding around here. She'd enjoyed most of her day, and now, here she was at night, siphoning energy, and keeping an eye out for creepy bullshit that would make her want to go crawl into bed instead of continue being awake. She spotted a negaverse agent staring at a mud puddle, and her curiosity won her over despite her natural aversion to whatever weird creepy s**t was undoubtedly going on. Scooping the mirrorwraith she'd had with her back into the mirror shard, she jogged over to the girl and stopped a couple feet away. "What's so interesting about the puddle? Did someone fall in or something?" she asked, head tilted to the side like a confused dog. She really hoped it wasn't anything crazy, but given it was summertime, she was pretty sure that hope of hers was... what was the word... moot? No, not quite. Futile? Maybe, that seemed closer. Eh, whatever, she'd either think of it later or she wouldn't.
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Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2026 3:52 pm
Dz turned her head to the questions, "If they did it is weird or they are weird, because I don't think they are getting out of the mud, I feel like someone is watching.." She paused and turned to them. The person seemed to be chaos like her, so she didn't expect to have an issue besides the normal issues. Personality that is. "Hi, I'm Dzhalindite, but you can call me Dz." She said as they looked at the freaky mud puddle. "We could do closer and mess with the mud puddle or just ignore it." She said, rolling her eyes what a weird puddle. She wondered what the other person would choose.
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2026 3:26 pm
Bélénos smiled at the introduction, nodding. "Nice to meet you, Dz. I'm Bélénos. Senshi of Pears," she said, turning with a little flourish to get her skirt to flare prettily. "You feel like someone is watching?" She scrunched her nose up. "Well, sounds like we should look closer." She marched over to the mud puddle to get a closer look, and then nearly screamed when she saw the disembodied eyes staring at her.
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2026 6:55 pm
Dz rolled her eyes. "I was thinking we were going to go with avoiding it. Why did you run towards it, weirdo?" She shook her head and went closer anyway and looked at the weird eyes, so the mud really had been watching her, which was really messed up. She glared at the mud and said, "You are a total creep." She said not afraid of the freaky mud. It didn't scare her. She had no intention of fighting the mud unless it attacked her. If that were the case, she wouldn't hold anything back. She turned to the person she had been talking to. "Come on, why don't we get away from this thing before we end up in a messy battle?" She didn't want to think of being covered head to foot in mud. "Why don't we go to one of the stands and get a star charm instead or get some drinks and snacks?" She suggested instead of fighting mud. Who the heck would want to fight mud? If this person wanted to fight mud, Dz might help, but she was going to be way mad about fighting mud. Like, she might not forgive this person if they got her into that kind of literal mess. Dz was kinda vain in that sense. She didn't want her uniform dirty, even if it would magically wash later on. If they didn't, there would have to be a magical dry cleaner. Dz rolled her eyes even thinking about it. Then again it might be a good way to collect energy if she could get away with it.
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Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2026 2:31 pm
Bélénos stepped away from the eyes in the puddle quickly, shivering with fear. God, that seemed... gross. Nasty. Terrifying. Terrible. Any other negative words she could possibly think of in that moment, which seemed like a near-infinite list. Horrifying. Scary. Frightening. Disgusting. Repulsive. She stopped herself before she could truly just start sounding like some kind of batshit insane thesaurus in her own mind and shook her head, stepping even further away. Dz's words finally registered in Bélénos's brain and she glanced back at the other person. "Uh, yeah, I don't think I want to fight a mud monster," she said with a nervous laugh. "Uh... yeah. Snacks and drinks sounds cool. And probably one of them has a stash of star charms to pick up anyway. Let's get the heck away from this thing, huh?"
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2026 8:24 am
Dz nodded, and they headed away from the mud monster that they had no interest in fighting. Off to get drinks and snacks and star charms. (Fin?)
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