Who: Sorin Radoslav and OPEN Where: the Great Hall/the Entrance Hall When: Monday evening, around dinner time What: Sorin's worst nightmare comes true in public. Rating: PG-13ish, most likely
Sorin was sitting in the Great Hall, eating dinner with several of his friends and housemates. The room was somewhat crowded. It was a popular time to have dinner, though some still trickled in late and some were already leaving. He had just picked up his goblet of water when it happened. Pain blossomed in his head and he was barely able to sit the cup down without any of the liquid sloshing out. He closed his eyes and pressed his fingers to his temples, hopinghopinghoping this was just a headache. But he knew it wasn't.
Sounds and smells assailed his senses, but they weren't coming from the Great Hall. Ignoring the stares of the people sitting nearest him, Sorin pushed himself up from the table and blindly stumbled toward the door. The vision was coming fast now and his vision faded to black. He didn't want anyone to see! Only a few people knew, but if it got out...
Mother of God, but it hurt! It hurt every time, but this - this pain was arcing along his nerve endings, like racking his body over a bed of hot coals and he'd barely made it into the hallway when he crashed to his knees so hard that his teeth cracked together and the palms of his hands scraped across the floor, abrading the skin. Sorin cried out as the vision took him over.
Beware the walking dead. Faces of friends. Faces of family. People known, dead, empty. Beware the walking dead. Screaming. They come at night. See them cross the grounds. Faces. Beware the walking dead. There's death everywhere. The smell, the taste. Everything is rotting. See that smile. No trace of pity. Beware the walking dead.
Deathdeathdeath. Dead and dying and screaming and darkness and fuck, would it ever end? Something was coming, and it was worse. Worse than anything before. Nothing was clear or absolute, but the initial message was one of horror and it gripped Sorin as he lay there on the floor, convulsing.