A Dimension in Time

Nomadic Travels

☼☽ Chapter 20 ☼☽

Nomadic Travels

Dawn and Bow didn't know what to expect. How could they? Especially after hearing the heart-dropping sound of shattering glass. That's a sound that could mean a million things, and this time it was not the good kind. Bow instantly thought someone shattered the glass door- again. While Dawn took a different approach to the sound, and the interpretation she had in mind wasn't a pretty one, nor did it sit right with her. Benjamin cautiously whittled down where it could've come from, and proclaimed it couldn't be the morbid image Dawn had in her mind of someone breaking in, possibly telling them they were too late to save the forest. Nor was it the glass door to the ship shattering with a gust so powerful that it would scatter the hourglasses all over the planet again. Because all of them knew the alarms would've gone berserk by now. Rather, that the sound came from somewhere else, close by. Somewhere in the spaceship that wasn't the entrance. Ultimately, Bow Kid theorized the shattering coming from the bathroom, it was the closest place to where they were. Yet it was also the last place her sister Hat Kid went to check up on Snatcher... it was worth a shot.

Every uneasy feeling accelerated into full blown panic as the bone chilling sight of blood greeted them once they stepped foot into the bathroom. Blood was splattered across cracked glass, on the sink and even on some parts of the floor. The mirror was shattered beyond repair... Dawn and Bow were petrified with the sight, unable to speak or even move closer. Benjamin on the other hand looked as if he was about to vomit, just like how Hat was when they were on the Owl Express all that time ago. "I'm- I'm gonna go, sis. Buegh... C-call me when you're done helping your friend, 'kay?" Benjamin signed off, hanging up and leaving them alone with Snatcher. There were so many questions on Dawn's mind, too many. In fact, those questions could spiral into millennia if so desired. In addition to her question, the snow queen knew the ribboned girl had just as many, if not more than her. "Why was the mirror shattered?"  Would be one question. "Why is there blood on the mirror and floor?"  Would be another, and after that ten dozen more questions spawn from there on out. Yet there was one specific question that broke the palpable atmosphere. "What happened?" Bow demanded in a low voice, shattering the silence as she carefully walked over to her sister to avoid stepping in blood. Blood that wasn't fake like the stuff on the Conductor's set, this time it was REAL blood... Presumably Snatcher's blood. Hat lifted her head, cerulean eyes tired and sore. Almost as if she had been there much longer than she had been gone, which couldn't have been more than a few minutes... "Snatcher... He- he punched the mirror. We need the first aid kit. I can clean up the blood. Dawn, do you think you can put a light coat of frost on it? Just like how you did with our injuries back when we escaped the Nyakuza Metro so they didn't bleed more?" The top hatted child inquired, grabbing some of Snatcher's shirt. Squeezing so tight her knuckles almost looked white, keeping him firmly grounded in reality.

Dawn cleared a path by freezing the blood beneath her, just to make sure it didn't have a chance to set in and stain the floors. "I'm gonna need you to let him go for a minute, you can still stand by him but I need to see his hands in order for this to work." Dawn and Bow watched as Hat obliged to the simple request, standing by the former ghoul instead of holding onto him for dear life. The cryokinesis prodigy knelt down on the ice she created, emerald eyes barely meeting Snatcher's golden hazel ones. They looked unfocused, zoned out... The snowflake-clipped girl bit her lip, this was going to be harder than she thought. When Snatcher's eyes finally refocused, they widened at the sight of Dawn's ice. Understandably so... it was a reason she had avoided using her powers around him during his stay. "Tch- if you think you can freeze me. Then you might as well do it and get it over with. You don't care, kiddo." Frowning, Dawn reached for Snatcher's bloodied hand covered in glass shards, only one seemed to take the full brunt while the other just got cut by glass.