video;

[villainously]

( he's a very serious, very scary, evil handed pirate, all right, and don't you dare forget it, but there are a few things that can unsettle even a pirate.

his heart may be black but it's still bloody there, and little wailing lasses that run from him the second he tries to get close stings, a little. does he really look so dastardly? or maybe she's just afraid. . .

either way you slice it, he's incredibly unnerved and at least a little bit concerned. )

Has anyone seen that wee girl? I tried to speak to her but the second I got close she ran off towards the stairs.

( he's looked for awhile. he's not even sure how she could move so damn fast, and suddenly be so silent. he could have sworn. . . )

She's got to be around somewhere. A tiny little thing, seemed upset. I can't be the only one that saw her.

Comments

[gloriouscurse]

[Regina actually debates answering, but finally she does, face coming up on the feed, makeup free, hair back in a pony tail.]

I saw her. I've seen her twice. It's like she...vanishes into thin air.

[villainously]

( he's not sure he's ever seen Regina Mills sans finery. it's ... different, but not the point. )

Twice? Shouldn't we search for her, then? She's too little to be off on her own.

( maybe someone that isn't a frigtening pirate should try talking to her. just a thought. )

video

[starspangled]

You're not. Around the lobby, right? I saw her earlier. Tried to talk to her, but she took off.

video

[villainously]

Aye, that's right. Toward the staircase, was it?

( how long have people been seeing this girl and proceeding not to help her? that's a bit worrisome. )

[usernamesarecool]

Not necessarily. It could be that two universes are pressing together you're just seeing glimpse of the other side. In actuality, she might not actually be here at all.

[villainously]

That's brilliant and everything, but I'm going to assume the crying girl is actually a crying girl.

[roughup]

There's a child here?

[He hadn't seen her yet, but he's pretty sure he's seen things out of the corner of his eye. Maybe that was it?]

It's one thing trapping us all here, but a kid?

[Ressler's tone is full of disgust.]

[villainously]

( yes, it's pretty messed up. though Hook is familiar with Neverland, so, children being trapped and lost isn't so new to him. )

Aye, it's bloody dreadful.

Might be she's got someone minding her ( but they're not doing it well, in his opinion ) but she's quite troubled and doesn't seem as if she lets anyone close.

[64th]

I saw her. I thought she probably belonged to somebody. Anyway, she can't be very far, there's no where to go.

[ and now that she stops to think about it, the whole thing is very weird. ]

[villainously]

Aye, Regina and I are going to look for her. She's got to be somewhere.

( weird is right, but beyond the weird he has to remember there is a child in need of help. right? )

Text;

[ingrantitude]

[If there are kids here, it's not HYDRA or SHIELD. That's good. Captain America's here. That's bad.

All the same. Time to make nice and think of a good cover story. Which means ...being social.]

That's certainly ominous.

text;

[villainously]

wee girls are ominous?

( no, the sad thing is he's right, the girl was incredibly unnerving, Hook just doesn't want to admit it. )

[sheriffing]

I saw her too. She was gone so fast, I thought I imagined it.

[Imaging that there are children around because she misses her kid isn't that much of a stretch, is it?]

. . . Maybe she's a part of this.

[villainously]

Seems a good number of us have seen her, she's real. ( and he'd spent some time searching for her after he heard the tears, it was only when he got close that she ran off.

he pauses at the last bit. freezing rooms is one thing, but to use a little girl to unsettle the clientele is a bit of a stretch. . .

isn't it? )

How do you mean?

[jarnsida]

I've seen her a few times. The first day, I thought that I'd made her afraid.

( But then he'd tried offering her pastry, and telling a story, and that hadn't worked, either. Björn is a big guy, but this has unnerved him, too. )

She likes the big room called the lobby, so far as I've seen. I'd like to know where her parents are.

( Because while there's a possiblity that she's a spirit, it's not one he immediately wants to jump to. Spirits don't belong in Midgard. )

[villainously]

A few times? How many?

( if she's disappeared on multiple people, surely there's someplace she's hiding when she's frightened. . . he can't quite tell if there's someone to mind her, but it doesn't seem so. )

That's where I saw her first, aye. And I'd like to know the same. ( and if she doesn't have any, they should do something.

he's not volunteering to watch the little thing, but she shouldn't be alone. )

[worrywirt]

I--no, you're not the only one that's seen her. She was really upset? But she didn't stick around long enough for me to...talk to her.

[ It didn't help that he didn't actually try to talk to her. He thought about it, but by the time he made up his mind, she had already run off. ]

Maybe we should try to find her family? Or...I don't know. Something like that.

[villainously]

If it's any consolation, it seems she's run from anyone that tries to get too close.

( but for him, it's not much of a consolation. )

Suppose that would be a secondary solution. Surely she's hiding somewhere upstairs, it's hard to miss a crying girl.

[usedtoit]

I've seen her

[ Thea has since but her room back together after wrecking it that first night, and she's laying on her stomach on her made bed, her tablet propped up against against her pillows. Her elbow rests on the bed and her chin on her hand, her eyebrows arched thoughtfully. ]

Maybe the hotel's haunted.

[villainously]

By a little girl.

( look, sorry, he hasn't seen The Ring or The Grudge, he is very unaware of creepy ghost girl trope. )

Why would you suggest that?

[cisskabob]

I've seen her. I'd say maybe she's one of our newbies, but... I don't know. Somehow I'm not sure she is.

[villainously]

I don't think she is, seems a bit young considering the rest of us. . .

Doesn't really matter, though, someone ought to help her.

video;

[lifewithoutrest]

[Helen has seen the girl, has in fact gotten close enough to realize she's...rather transparent. She doesn't know if she believes in ghosts, the ones who haunt in a physical sense at least. But evidence suggests she isn't exactly like the rest of them.]

I'm not certain she's actually here.

video;

[villainously]

( she's far from the first to suggest that, and it's starting to unnerve him how many people would rather assume the girl is a figment of imagination than help her.

then again, maybe they have a point, and his heartstrings are clouding his head. )

Yeah, and why do you say that? She seemed plenty real to me as she ran off in tears.

video;

[unforgives]

I saw her too— around the lobby but she was pretty quick to disappear before I could even try and talk to her.

video;

[villainously]

And she ran up the stairs?

( the fact it's the same story with everyone is starting to get suspicious but goddamnit, he doesn't want to give up just in case. )

[carjacked]

I know you got probably twenty people sayin' the same thing, but-

[ He shrugs. ]

I'm not so sure you're gonna be able to catch her. Someone chased her up to the stairs when I was comin' down, and-

[ His brow wrinkles a little, lips turning down, something almost sympathetic in his expression. ]

You can see through her. She's not all there, she's- I don't think she's alive.

[sheriffing]

[Emma can't keep her mouth shut under the best conditions, but when it comes to being trapped in the Bates Motel with little girl ghosts, there's no chance she's keeping quiet about this.

So don't mind if she adds in her two cents here, frowning at his description of the little girl.]

See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Horror movie ghost.

[Which, if nothing else, points to Neal not being anything less than totally alive. Now they actually have something to compare him to.]