WHO: Gretel and OPEN WHAT: Trying to find her brother. WHEN: Day 6, Dawnish WARNINGS: TBD STATUS: Open/In progress
Another day, another night, and another sunrise without Hansel. To call her relationship with her brother co-dependent felt like an understatement, and though they had been accused of horrible, unthinkable things because of how close the twins were (all untrue, and almost always answered with a fist to someone's face), their rare and brief separations were monumentally damaging. Usually to other people, especially if they got in the way of their reunion.
This... this was different. Somehow, some group of beings more powerful and more sinister than she'd ever been able to imagine had plucked her away from her twin's side and dropped her in this human farm, and the days stretched on with no more idea of how to escape than the last. The lack of food, she could deal with- she had before, actually for most of her childhood as a starving orphan, stealing food where she could and learning how to live off the land. But it was difficult without proper weapons, and so many mouths to feed with no idea how to do it for themselves. Then there had been the screaming, and the helplessness of being trapped in this giant cage lest whatever dragged that noise out of that poor woman find more victims. Sam had been a slight distraction through it all- another mutual shoulder to steady on and learn from, but the arrival of his brother had reminded her of the absence of her own.
She had been spiraling through the night, dozing here and there because sleep and lack of food rarely mixed. When the dawn finally turned the heavy rain and rolling thunder into a paler shade of gray, Gretel headed down the pristine apartment stairs and into the driving rain, past the giant doors and into the woods.
She screamed her brothers name every thirty paces, walking out as far as she would dare before circling the compound in smaller orbits- at least, that was the plan. It was a shitty plan, but her grief had hit a stoney bottom and Gretel had literally no idea what else to do. At least...at least she was doing something.