May 9th: Walking along the river

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon was walking alongside the river after class.

[The Golden Witch]

Someone was floating face down in the river, not moving.

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon spotted the body after a moment, and reached out with his powers as he removed his shoes and stuffed his wallet/phone/etc into them.

A peaceful walk is far too much ask for...

Once he'd gotten confirmation that he wasn't jumping into the river to save a mannequin he would begin to swim out to the body.

[The Golden Witch]

It definitely wasn't a mannequin. Although it might be a bit late as the skin had a slight blue tint to it.

As Gideon got close to the body it suddenly thrashed, having a coughing fit as water poured from it's mouth.

[Gideon Rede]

"Shit," Gideon said trying to turn the person over so they were no longer face down in the river, "I'm going to take you to shore, please calm down."

Gideon began trying to draw away any fear the person felt, hopefully helping them to calm down so that they didn't both drown.

[The Golden Witch]

"My first..." the woman coughs, "My first kill...triple matinee."

"Find her. You have twenty four hours...oh god...please...don't..."

With a wail, sharpened razor tendrils begin exploding from her body.

[Gideon Rede]

"God fucking damnit," Gideon growled as he was cut dozens of times, and kicked off from the lady's body to gain at least a little distance before unleashing a blast of psychic energy at the person, thing, whatever it was.

[The Golden Witch]

The thing grabbed it's head and started screeching, razor tendrils flying towards Gideon a bit weaker this time.

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon tried to block the tendrils that had been heading towards his face pushing them off to the side, and managing to avoid taking more than a couple more cuts.

"Things like this make me hate trying to save people."

He kept trying to propel himself backwards away from the creature and towards shore. He drove his will into the things mind like a battering ram going for maximum mental trauma.

[The Golden Witch]

The thing let out a shuddering screech and went limp, falling back into the water.

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon began a slow backwards swim back to shore not wanting to take his eyes off the creature for a moment. He now attempted to piece together why exactly this...thing had been floating down the Thames in the first place, and what exactly it had meant by twenty four hours.

[The Golden Witch]

On the shore, an abandoned cell phone began ringing.

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon pulled himself out of the water, bleeding, and wearing considerably less clothing. He sighed when he saw the abandoned phone, and answered it.

"Hello," Gideon said trying to keep the cold from making his speech stutter.

[The Golden Witch]

The phone switched over to a video feed.

A young girl. High school student. She was tied to a chair and crying. Bright lights played off her face.

In her lap a quivering egg sat there.

After a few minutes the screen went black.

[Gideon Rede]

Gideon closed the phone after the video played, and went to retrieve his things. Once he reached them he made a call. People were watching from the riverbank, but he ignored them.

Great. Just fucking great.

"This is Phantasm," Gideon said, "There has been an incident at my location a few miles from the school. I need a pick up, and somebody to dredge some kind of creature from the river. A healer would also be nice."

After a moment or two, and a couple more brief exchanges Gideon ended the call, and took a seat while he waited.