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Dec. 8th, 2006 01:04 pm![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
[Milltimed to earlier this evening.]
Jack comes in from the lake for a minute to get something to drink, planning to escape the noise and bustle of the bar as soon as possible, before his nerves start rattling too much. He only makes it to the bar when suddenly everything starts to shake, sending him to his knees, one hand still on the bar.
Dishes clatter to the ground, and then a minute later, the bar is plunged into blackness.
Jack blinks, but everything's still dark, pressing in on him. There are cries of prisoners patrons, the rumbling of the quake, blood pounding in his ears, his breath coming faster. Voices, sounding distant to his ears, yelling to eachother: "Shit!" "Qǐ chuáng!" "Somebody get me a light!" Heavy boots Footsteps on stone wood floors as people move--coming toward his cell--
He's shaking all over, trying to push back the memories and remember where he is. Fear is taking over though, his heart hammering in his chest, and he can hardly catch his breath. He feels somehow as though he's outside if himself and part of him has to wonder if he's still back in that small cell, in the dark, and all this was just a hallucination.
No, no, Milliways is real, I'm not waking up, I'm not--
One hand with a white-knuckled grip on the bar, the other shaking and clutching at his chest, he looks around, trying to peer through the blackness, but his eyes aren't adjusting and all he can see are dim shapes moving through the dark.
Oh God, I'm losing my mind in the middle of the bar and no one can see me.
[ooc: No, Jack's not having a heart attack--more like a panic attack. And this is definitely not plotlocked or preplanned in any way; he can definitely have more than one person simultaneously coming to his aid. Whee!]
Drusilla is sitting at a table with a jug of ice tea and some fruit. In a change from her usual long, elegant dresses of red and black lace and silk, she is wearing a pale yellow knee length summer dress with a patern of small blue flowers on it, and a pair of sandals.
Dru has her Tarot cards out on the table and she is conducting a reading while she sips her tea. Or quite possibly playing Solitaire. It's very hard to tell the difference.