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Who: Snow White and open
When: tonight
Where: outside
Summary: investigating the Darkness firsthand
Warnings: um, warnings typical of being outside at night I guess?

Snow had heard so many things since her arrival to this strange place, but there was nothing like seeing it for herself. So this time when she heard the sirens going off she ignored them. She ventured out into the growing darkness.

She stopped being afraid of the dark as a young girl. She spent far too many lonely nights in the tower to cower from it. Then she was in the Dark Forest facing all the sinister things that lived within it.

She could feel that something sinister lurked in the night, but she refused to shy away from it. She would face it head-on and defeat it if she could.

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There are always other girls who face the Darkness with open arms- once Christina hissed and spit at it, because she thought it was supposed to be her domain in the shadows, now while she doesn't shy from it, going out after dark is just something that happens when a shift runs late or she gets distracted on patrol. The only thing that remained the same was that she didn't fear the dark and saw no need for a companion and protector. She could face it on her own, just as well as she faced her own darkness.

Others, however, may have lacked those attributes.

"Not really a good night for a walk," she said, approaching Snow casually for the two of them being out in a place where the shadows threatened. "Not that it's ever a good night for a walk around here."

Snow turned, not recognizing the girl. There were too many faces on her new device to keep track of them all. But she assumed the girl was like her: a stranger in this world forced to stay against her will.

"I have been told as much," Snow answered. Her voice was calm and steady; she wasn't afraid of the shadows either.

"You're not afraid?" Christina tilted her head a bit, curious and smiling. There was a difference, she believed, in legitimately not being afraid and being too proud to admit you were afraid. This girl, she decided, after a mild scrutiny fell into the former category.

"I have faced the Dark Forest," Snow answered. "It is a perilous place full of horrors. After that, there is little that can frighten me."

Christina paused, blinking at her. A sudden movement to her left caused her to glance away, but nothing moved from the shadows to strike, so she turned back to the girl beside her. "Dark Forest. That sounds.... Dark."

Eloquent, Christina.

Snow answered with a humorless smile. "It is inhabited by more than shadows," she replied.

"Monsters like these?" She stepped off the sidewalk for a second, squinting into the Darkness. "They don't have them where I'm from."

Because I'm the only monster. Me and my dad and whoever serves him.

Even if sometimes humans are just as cruel.

"Like these," Snow agreed, fingers tightening over the hilt of her knife. Of course she would back away if it was necessary but she wanted to at least try to face the Darkness.

Christina glanced back at her, for the first time noticing the knife. "Well, at least you came out armed." And given the look of Christina in her modern clothing with no place to hide weapons, she didn't- not that she needed it.

Snow noticed that but hadn't said anything. She was still learning and didn't think to question the other girl. Snow carefully continued forward, neither asking the girl to join her nor expecting her to turn away.

That noise again. Christina's instinct was to put herself in front of the other girl, even though she was the one unarmed- habit, really. Being powerful had its advantages. "Did you hear that?"

"I did," she acknowledged softly. There were things moving in the dark. She couldn't see them yet but she knew they were lurking. Unwillingly Ravenna's glass soldiers came to Snow's mind.

She could almost hear their hollow creaking... She took a breath. "Perhaps we should move indoors after all."

"Don't be scared," came Christina's automatic reassurance. She stepped backwards a bit, onto the sidewalk. "But yeah... We should find a place to wait it out. I could call someone."

Something snuffled just out of her line of sight in the places where the deep shadows lurked. "Hypothetically, if we had to fight, you could, right? I mean, that knife's not just for show and you really have dealt with monsters before... Right?"

"Of course," Snow answered. "If they attack, I will fight them. But I do not think it wise to attack first."

She nodded. "Walk, don't run. They'll probably attack if they think we're running away." She started walking down the sidewalk at a brisk pace. "Kinda intense for an after-dark stroll, huh?"

"Is it?" Snow tilted her head curiously. "Things are often intense in the Dark Forest."

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