OOC: Wow, this rp moves so fast.....ack!
IC: Cassidy watched Dumbledore enter with shaky limbs. She stood near the defeated troll, holding her bo staff in a neutral position, and looking at everyone else blankly. She had no idea what had come over her, or why she had not responded to her friends when they told her to go for help.
All she could see the entire time was a swirl of darkness. As if she were in a dream, the images floated around her in a ghostly manner. Her friends, fighting bravely to defeat this Death Eater butler, but somehow, she could see inside him. To his very soul it seemed. And there was a creature all to familliar, and she could not call him human, for he stood against everything that was human.
Voldermort.
Her lips traced the pronounciation of the evil wizzard's name softly. She did not speak his name aloud, and even so, his name tasted bitter.
She said nothing of this vision to her friends, thinking it just some kind of nightmareish mirage caused by her already weakened state. She told Dumbledore her side of the story, to the aid and defense of her friends, and retired to Gryffindor Tower.
As she entered through the porthole, she was greeted by an empty common room, and a slowly dwindling fireplace. A haunting aura hung in the air, and it chilled her. She walked up the stairs feverishly, slipping under her covers as soon as she put her pajamas on.
And suddenly, she felt the pain in her side.
Numbed by the excitement and adrenaline of the evening, she had felt no pain, but after lifting up her button down pajama shirt, she saw a scar, razor cut, and barely healed.
"From that creature Snape and I encountered," she gasped in wonder. She traced the slice on her side, wincing at the sting, but fascinated all the same that she had not felt it until now. Deciding to think more of it in the morning, she fell asleep against her soft down pillow.
Her dreams were haunted by night terrors, sneaking into the pleasantness of slumber like a snake in the grass. She tossed and turned all night long.
Cassidy woke up in the morning, screaming.
OOC: I am done for the night, so please don't get too far ahead! Sorry, guys!