PM to join When in doubt, pie! [Espiridion]

[Skaiira]

AV 512, Winter 31st

I’m sweating. I can feel my heart beating heavily against my chest. I’ve made this jump more than five times already but it always manages to scare the crap out of me. I peer out over the rooftop at the fifty foot drop below and my heart sinks. My legs turn to jelly. Shit, why did I look? I’m so stupid. I think. Is there another way? ...No. This is the only way. The only way I can get my hands on that pie and just... My stomach growls and my mouth salivates excessively. My eyes dart toward the crenelation sat atop the tiled rooftop twenty feet away and I swallow. A seagull croaks high above and I curse at it and it’s ability to fly.

I close my eyes, take a deep breath and step back a few paces. I use a moment or two to take in the morning smells. The stench of fish, the ever salty sea and my own filth are thick in my nostrils. I immediately feel better. After the shaking stops I steady myself and get ready for the run. I do a mental countdown.Three. Two. One. Go!... The wind feels great on my face as I make the run. My heart is beating wildly but not just from fear. I see the moment. Feel the timing. Then suddenly I’m soaring through the air, arms out in front ready to grab the crenelation. Time slows down. I reach out. I think my life flashes before my eyes but I’m not sure. My right hand slams down on to cold stone and I hold on to it in a death grip. “Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!!”

I dangle from the rooftop with one hand on the crenelation for a moment, trying to calm down. After a short while I pull myself up on to the tiled roof and try to steady the shaking. When I’m feeling a little better I creep to the corner of the roof and peek over. The smell of Miss Reni’s pies instantly wafts up in to my face and I almost fall off in desperation. I keep my cool and shuffle quietly down the old wooden beam just like all the other times before. I check my surroundings. Miss Reni is talking to a customer on the other side of the booth. Everything seems to be going according to plan.

I lower myself down just enough to swipe the first two pie’s on the stool and stuff them in to my pockets. Then, as silently as I can, I drop from the beam and crouch around the back of the booth and in to an ally. I’m thrilled with myself and cant help the huge smirk that spreads across half my face. That was almost too easy!

[Espiridion]

Laying under the stone ground in one the alleyway of Zeltiva, I was fast asleep. I enjoyed laying under the stone floor, It was quiet and somewhat relaxing. My slumber was disturbed when i heard a boy's voice, "Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!!" I heard within the floor. I awoke and rose from my resting place. I look around to see who made the noise that forced me to awake, I saw no one. I murmured to myself, "I guess when they said rest in piece, they meant the ones who stayed dead...". I look up to greet the sky, Instead I watched as a boy removing pies from a room and stuffing them in his pocket. I didn't know what to do, I panic a little. I thought aloud, "What should i do? If he comes down I'll be injured, or killed!! Oh, wait..." a dumbfound look falls on my face when I realize, I am already dead. I pondered if I should stop him or let him go, I thought deeply about the matter. My thoughts soon disburse when a 'thud' noise resonates in front of me, noise echo though the alley. My focus shift from by thoughts to a boy who's wearing an oversize coat that was in poor condition with a purple scarf, it was the pie thief. I watch nervously as a smirk stretches across his face. Without thinking I shot two tenderdrills of soulmist towards the boy. My mist preformed a corkscrew motion as it advances. The mist aims for the boy, I soon realize this and shift its' aim from the boy to stuffed his pockets. The tenderdrills, with their new target, darts towards him closing the distance and burring themselves within the boy's pockets engulfing the stolen goods, pulling out short after. With the pies hovering over my shoulders I question the boy, oblivious that I haven't solidified myself for him to see me. "Why steal these pie, Boy? or should I say, Pie Theif!" I said as I Dramatically point at him. Folding my arms I wait patiently for his answer as i float above him, looking down into his eyes.

OOCSorry, my first Collab... I may be bad at it

[Skaiira]

As I’m walking through the alley it suddenly feels a lot chillier. My breath starts to mist in the air. I pull my coat closer to my body and shiver. I feel something rush past me like a gust of wind. I’m spooked! Something starts to move around in my coat pockets. The pies are yanked out of my coat by an unknown force and I scream like a little girl. I must be daydreaming. That’s right, probably too much excitement for one day.

I close my eyes. Take a deep breath. I slowly look up and... OH DEAR LORD OF ZELTIVA THE PIES ARE FLYING ABOVE MY HEAD! OK, Skaiira. Don’t panic. There has to be a logical explanation behind- "Why steal these pies, Boy? or should I say, Pie Theif!" A voice says from nowhere. My eyes go as wide as chicken eggs. “..g-g...gggg...gho..” My jaw numbs. I can’t say the dreaded word. Instead I scream and bolt in the opposite direction.

I keep running. I’m not sure where I’m going but I run as if my life depended on it. I come to a dead end. No! Why now of all times!? I’m not sure if it followed me. I drop to my knees in a weird sort of begging position. “P-please... I... I... the pies... they... I only!” I plead pathetically to thin air.

OOCNo worries! It's fine!

[Espiridion]

The boy sat their for a brief moment, He looked at me then shut his eyes tightly. Upon opening them, he starts to stutter the word 'ghost', the let off a scream that pierces my hearing. He starts to run frantically down the alleyway, as if he saw a ghost. I loomed behind him until he hit a dead end. I stare at the boy as he moves hes head, looking for a path to make an escape. Shortly after he drops to his knees and begins pleading, “P-please... I... I... the pies... they... I only!” I feel sorry for the little guy, I guess i could give him the pies... but then again, life as a ghost gets boring so a little fun wouldn't hurt. I begin swaying the pie to and fro. "oOoO, OoOo! I'm the ghost of pies... You mortal, have stolen my sacred pie that contains my soul, and for that... " I Dramatically pause as I close in on the frightened boy. Waving the pies in front of him, I moved my head next to one of his ears and whisperer in a ghastly voice, "you must be punished, for all eternity..." I pull back to see his reaction, holding back my laughter.