Tansy

dates June 24th, afternoon

Thinking back, Tansy can pinpoint exactly what she'd done wrong to cause this. Of course, at the time, she hadn't really thought anything of it. She'd had no reason to. She's never experienced wishes coming true before. Sage had veritably turned her wish into a spell, and it still hadn't come true.

So, wishing she'd been able to defeat the dragon when she'd had the opportunity to had been habit. She'd woken up from a terrible dream, imagining what Da had gone through before he'd died at the wyrm's maw, and in a frustrated, sweaty moment, she'd made her wish.

She'd had no reason to think anything would come of it.

It isn't until she smells it that she realizes her mistake. This blasted, wonderful, terrible city has brought her the beast. It is giving her the opportunity she'd asked for.

She's crouched over a cluster of wild lavender when she hears the wings. Followed on its tail is the smell.

"Vermifax major," she whispers. Her heart goes cold, and she rushes to the nearest tree, hiding beneath it.

She needs to warn the city. She needs to warn her friends. With a start, she realizes she can. Her phone is in her—

Her satchel. Which she'd left next to the lavender. She curses her recklessness, and she curses the dragon.

Then she starts to crawl to her satchel, anyway. She needs to warn people: Daine, and Luke, and Eowyn, and anyone else she can think of. They need to know the danger they're in.

She swallows a gasp and hunches down when she hears him roar and draw closer. Her fingers tap rapidly on her screen, and she looks up after she's hit send.

"Come to me, you great, ugly wyrm," she says. Then she opens her mouth, sucks in a deep breath, and releases as loud a scream as she can manage. If he stays out of the city proper, then there's a chance Darrow will stay safe.

[ find Tansy in the countryside, relatively away from most houses; hear her scream, get her text, or just see the bus-sized (not including neck and tail) red dragon flying just near the trees. She's definitely gonna need help slaying it! ]