[ Vanessa gets hold of Astra, and Astra screams, that shrill, piercing screech that only a scared kid can manage. ]
"Let me go! Let me GO!"
[ Constantine yells, too, no less scared. ] What are you d-- fuck, fuck!
[ Fuck. As Astra struggles with Vanessa, Johanna lets her base instincts take over. Nobility is for other people, like this woman and her scorpion earrings, apparently. Escape, now, that's for people like Constantine.
She manages to get to her feet and barrels out the door past them. Astra's gaze, such as it is, follows her. ]
"Constantine!"
[ Redoubling her struggles, and with a strength that a girl that size really shouldn't have, Astra shoves Vanessa away. Her interest is entirely in Johanna -- who waited a little too long to follow her fear, and hasn't got the head start Vanessa tried to give her.
cw for the linked post: violence by a child, death of a child, strangling
"Let me go! Let me GO!"
[ Constantine yells, too, no less scared. ] What are you d-- fuck, fuck!
[ Fuck. As Astra struggles with Vanessa, Johanna lets her base instincts take over. Nobility is for other people, like this woman and her scorpion earrings, apparently. Escape, now, that's for people like Constantine.
She manages to get to her feet and barrels out the door past them. Astra's gaze, such as it is, follows her. ]
"Constantine!"
[ Redoubling her struggles, and with a strength that a girl that size really shouldn't have, Astra shoves Vanessa away. Her interest is entirely in Johanna -- who waited a little too long to follow her fear, and hasn't got the head start Vanessa tried to give her.
What happens next, happens fast.
And then there's Johanna lying on the floor, gasping for breath, with a child-sized mannequin draped awkwardly on top of her. ]