InsaneJournal

WHO: Darcy Rhone and OTA
WHAT: Trying to find an amulet and maybe running into someone in person for the first time since arriving?
WHERE: First floor of the apartment complex in Lawrence
WHEN: Present day, early evening.


It had taken a few days for Darcy to accept that she really wasn't going to be going home any time soon. It took another to accept that she was going to be having her babies in some po-dunk town all alone and that Ethan was neither going to be able to support her through the pregnancy nor be there for the birth to hold her hand. Finally, Darcy had decided that she was going to have to try to make the best of it and roll with the punches as best she could. Everybody kept saying that she wouldn't be alone having these babies, but she didn't believe them. Part of her was pretty sure that the babies weren't the reason she was so exhausted and that it was just the stress and fear of the idea of having them at all, never mind all by herself in a strange place surrounded by a bunch of people she'd never met in person.

The most that Darcy had bothered to leave her room was to go to the nearest gas station for ice cream or junk food because it was the only thing she was craving and her appetite was long gone, so it was the cheapest and fastest way to force herself to eat for the benefit of her unborn children. So, when the one guy, Connor, had recommended she get an amulet to ward off demon possession — of all things — she wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea of having yet another reason to force herself out of bed and out of her room. But, she decided she sort of didn't have a choice. Everything was so crazy around here, no one had given her any real reason to doubt the validity of his suggestion and the last thing she wanted was to be the next pea-soup spouting, head-spinning, foul-mouthed, foreign-tongued freak of nature.

So, with a lot of moping to herself and a little bit of effort, Darcy got out of bed, showered — bemoaning the fact that she could no longer see anything more than the very tip of her big toe while looking down — and headed out of her room and down the elevator to the first floor.

"Amulets, amulets..." she murmured to herself, walking slowly around and trying to take in the surroundings for the first time, since she hadn't bothered any other time. If she had, she might have noticed the amulets the first five or six times she'd left her room and the building. "If I were a bunch of amulets...where would I want to chill?" she wondered quietly to herself, tapping her fingers gingerly against her swollen stomach.