#secretive feeling of fearsome hatred that reaches the skies [watchers]

[jellie-tamer]

Ohhh silly little vex. Your birdie will be fine, he always is isn't he :)?

Yeah...he'll be fine......

[jellie-tamer]

As Joel reached for Grian Scar growled. The sound shifted between the strange echoey sounds of a vex, and an ordinary growl. As Joel takes Grian's hand he jerks forward, smiling mouth open.

He hesitates.

His hesitance is just long enough for someone to fly through the window; purple eyes and wings of void. Jellie quickly glides to perch upon Scar's shoulders and taps his head with hers. Jellie cannot fully remove the mother's hold on Mumbo, but she can loosen the claws in his mind enough that he can break free on his own. She hopes it's enough.

All at once Scar realizes what's happening. His mouth snaps shut, and the smile that had been practically sculpted to his face falls into an expression of horror as he looks down at Grian. At what he and Mumbo did. He stares frozen at the chains wrapped around Grian's body.

"B- bird.ie?" Scar's voice cracks between echoes and ordinary.

@jellie-tamer

[jellie-tamer]

And the universe said the darkness you fight is within you - Grian

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[jellie-tamer]

Oh, you couldn't recognize me then? Ah well, it's alright little vex, your little... Kind is a bit dull after all :)

What's that supposed to mean?

[jellie-tamer]

The dream shifted.

Cub was gone.

This wasn't a memory anymore.

There were eyes all around him, poking and prodding at his scars the same way the Pillagers used to.

No no no no please no-

(In the waking world Scar shook, tears slipping past his closed eyes)

Red and blue and yellow feathers fell around him. He looked up, only to see the eyes surrounding Grian, forcing that mask on him again. Scar screamed.

This couldn't be happening again no no no no no!

The eyes continued to poke and prod at him with unseen hands, tearing open long ignored scars, suppressed memories, stupid broken little vex- forgotten wounds.

He couldn't do anything again. Stupid stupid stupid pathetic weak obedient little vex.

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Scar shot awake, breath fast and shallow and he can't breathe where is Grian where is he where- he frantically looks around, needing to find Grian. He couldn't breathe. He needed to calm down where is Grian? Please I can't live without him please- he couldn't breathe. He smacked his face against the floor, slipping on his untied hair as he tried to scramble to find Grian, who he didn't realize was just in the other room.

[jellie-tamer]

Scar tears up and goes closer to Pearl.

"Pearl please. What is happening? I don't understand..." Scar trails off and looks away, wiping at his eyes for a moment.

"I- at least tell me how I can help. Help you now or help find him. Anything!"

Scar pauses, his next words coming out as little more than a whisper, "I don't want to lose him."

"Pearl? Someone told me you were hurt and," Scar pauses, taking a deep breath before his next words, "That Grian is gone."

"Please tell me what's happening Pearl..."

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*A feeling of dread poors over her as she recollects what little shes told scar, and the lies,...about 10 stars appear* ...scar...i dont know what to say...

[jellie-tamer]

And there he was.

He was dressed differently.

@ask-the-grian

"Who's there?" Scar snapped at the new presence within his house. As he turned around however recognition quickly dawned on him.

"...Grian?" Scar whispered in disbelief.

[jellie-tamer]

Scar doesn't sleep well that night.

Throughout most of the night he barely managed to do much more than cry. Eventually though he managed to slip into a fitful sleep.

Scar dreams of a void. Nothing and no one to be seen for chunks.

Every time he thinks he sees someone he approaches them as fast as he can, but they vanish before he can get close.

He got close and they vanished he got close and they vanished and they vanished and they left they left they left they left they lefttheylefttheylefttheyleftthey-

The void above him, though not a true sky, shined with thousands of eyes like stars, with one bright center to them all.

Scar could see Grian there, his shining star floating amongst the eyes.

Scar tried to reach up to him, longing for him to be close again, but the more scar tries to get close the further Grian drifts away.

The eyes get closer, staring at him. He feel terrified. They watch his every move and know what he's going to do before he does it, scar tries to back away from them, to maybe bring Grian back. If getting close drove him away then getting far might draw him back right?

It didn't work. The eyes got closer and closer and swarmed his vision, blocking Grian from his view.

Scar cries out, begging Grian to come back, but the eyes just push him away.

Scar wakes up again with a start, already crying again. He cries for a bit before drifting back to sleep, where he has the same dream again, and again, and again.

[jellie-tamer]

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that jimmy fundy and I captured a watcher and I tried to obliterate it with my strongest spell but Jim kept stopping me because we needed answers from it but even after we got info from it I STILL wasn’t allowed to blast it -blaze anon

That's. Interesting

But I mean, it's probably a good idea to avoid killing weird god things.

[jellie-tamer]

I bit a watcher before and it did taste like strawberry cake-blaze Anon

That's. Very interesting

I wonder if Grian would taste like that too 🤔

[jellie-tamer]

*petting jellie* the only thing we can do right now is wait and hope that grian comes back-blaze anon

Yeah, I guess so..

[jellie-tamer]

I-if it makes you feel any better, I managed to hit a watcher in the face with a fire ball and actually damage it-blaze anon

"That does make me feel a bit better actually haha" scar says this, but is still crying, and his laugh comes out breathy and hollow

[jellie-tamer]

I’m sorry scar…..(ooc: me in character:I’m sorry.., me irl:hmmm now how can make scar sadder/j)

"I wish I could just help them..."

[jellie-tamer]

Also there’s a watcher possessing mumbo and that’s why he’s been acting weird-blaze anon

"So much is happening and I can't do anything huh?" Scar says, sounding completely hopeless.

"I wasn't able to protect Grian, Pearl is leaving, Mumbo is possessed?! I just. Why can't I do anything to protect my friends from those watchers?" Scar cries.

[jellie-tamer]

Pearl made the deal and she knows the watchers better than anyone bar grian, if they were lying I’m positive she would have known and wouldn’t have made the deal-blaze anon

"Alright, I trust you"

Scar is simultaneously relieved that Grian might be coming back and terrified of another person leaving, but he feels helpless to change anything.

[jellie-tamer]

Ok so I think I need to explain, grian and pearl are watchers who left the watchers, xelqua was grians watcher name and he’s been taken back to the watcher realm and became xelqua again, and in that happening he lost his humanity and forgot all the memories he made as grian-blaze anon

"And. Pearl is switching with him? I-"

Scar starts to tear up.

"Giran might come back? But. But what if he doesn't still? You said Pearl was trading places but what if it's a lie and then they're both gone?"

Tears begin to slip down Scar's face.

"The watchers," he says, his voice full of building scorn, "don't seem like they can be trusted. What if they just take pearl and don't give Grian back?"

Scar takes a shuddering breath and says, "I don't want to lose any more people."