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Can't sleep. Clowns will kill me.

...Okay, I know there aren't really clowns around waiting to kill me, and that it's all in my head. Doesn't mean it's any easier to try to stop jumping at shadows.

Stupid clowns.

[locked to Harry, Murphy, Cissie, Ned, Rusty, and Tony]
Everyone okay, or are you freaking out, too?

[locked to Amanda]
Are you affected?

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... hellooo...

Ready or not... here I come! [Manic laughter.]

[Wait. Is he really coming? Is he just trying to draw her out? Should she run? Stay put? OH GOD THE CLOWNS ARE AFTER HER!]

[He makes a drumming noise along his desk, fingernails tapping like footsteps growing louder.]

[There is a looooooong pause while the drumming gets louder, then Molly lets out a yelp and runs out of her room.]

[muttered] Can't let the clowns find me...

Joker leaves his room and begins ascending the levels, on the watch for the frightened blonde.

Molly... is not particularly aware of where she's going as she flees her cabin. She's just trying to get away, so the clown can't find her. She runs down the stairs and stumbles a little as she bumps into--

Oh, God, it's the clown.

She's so startled that her veil of invisibility drops away, and she stares back at him.

He's bumping into something that's not there, for a second he wonders if he's affected. But then she appears in front of him. "Well, hello there." He slides his hands into his pockets and realises in his rush to leave he'd forgotten to pick up some sort of weapon... such a shame.

It takes Molly a moment of staring at the--really kind of terrifying--clown before she can remind herself that she's a wizard. An apprentice, maybe, but certainly capable of defending herself against a (terrifying) clown.

Probably.

She swallows. "...Hello," she says cautiously.

He widens his red lips in a long, wide grin. "Are you in the habit of appearing out of thin air?"

It's not his fault he a clown. Just because he's a clown, doesn't mean he's going to try to kill her.

...Even if he's the scariest clown she's ever seen, and absolutely looks like he would try to kill her.

"I find it keeps people off-guard." Like psycho-murdering clowns. Which this guy isn't. Necessarily.

"Really? Wouldn't it put people on their guard? It's not exactly calming." He says, deliberately misinterpreting her words.

He starts to inch closer, watching to see her reaction.

Molly presses back against the wall, trying very hard not to look uncomfortable. Or completely terrified while her mind tells her that the clown is going to kill her. "Um. Well, they're off-guard until I appear?"

"And then, when you appear... they freak out." He widens his eyes, waving his fingers in his face as he says the last, getting right up in her space.

"You are really inside my purple circle right now," She says, pushing tentatively at his shoulder. "Can you maybe take two steps back?"

"Maybe..." He makes no move. "Or..." He raises his hands suddenly towards her head, trying to get a secure grip on her jaw and hair.

Okay, he has officially gone from "kind of creepy but possibly benign clown" to "definitely scary psycho clown that will probably kill her in her sleep."

She shoves harder at his shoulder, aiming a kick toward his shins. "That wasn't a request. Back off."

"Am I scaring you? Is it the scars?"

He stops trying to reach for her, tilting his head sharply. "Shall I tell you how I got 'em?" And he grabs at her head again.

She braces herself, grimacing slightly, and grabs his wrist so he can't wrench her head around by her hair. "Actually, it's the grabby-hands. Let go of me, or I'm going to set off a round of fireworks in your face." She's already preparing the illusion--she doubts he's the type to listen to threats.

"And how are you planning to do that?" He asks, making no move backwards.

Considering the invisibility, she might have the skills, but if she sets them off in his face, she'll be setting them off in her own, and he doubts she really wants that pretty face ruined.

Molly wishes more than almost anything that she'd thought enough to bring her wands. She'd love more than anything to throw the one-woman rave into this joker's face, but without the wands she doesn't have the focus to pull it off. She'll just have to make do with carrying out her threat.

She's probably going to have a massive headache later, but she hopes she can give the clown one, too. She snaps the fingers of the hand that's not holding his wrist in front of his face, and with a word, sets off a round of fireworks between their faces.

It's an illusion, so it doesn't actually hurt either of them, but the light flashes, and the sound is deafening. She uses the distraction to shove him back--hard.

And he shouts, stumbling backwards, raising his hands to his head to shield his eyes and ears from the flash and noise. His shouts turn into manic sort of laughter, half shock and half glee at the fact that she actually carried through with the threat.

It takes a while for the lack of actual heat and pain to register, but by that time he's collapsed against the far wall, lights still blooming in his vision and his ears ringing loudly.

"Now that," he says, louder than necessary, to compensate for the deafness in his ears. "That is some trick."

"Happy to oblige," Molly mutters. She's already halfway down the stairs, and pulling on a veil so that he can't find her again. Her head feels like it's splitting from the bang and the flash of light, and that fact that he's laughing about it is just... completely insane.

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