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Characters: The Witch of the Candy House
Open? Yep
Where: Two Faced Forest
When: RH4 [or really, any other day if you wanna backdate]
What: In the Forest is a candy house, and a cranky old witch who wants these dang heroes to get the hell off her lawn!

Deep in the Two Faced Forest, next to a lake of impossible clarity sits a small candy house. Walls made of gingerbread, decorated with hard candy that magically stays unmelted in the sun, it's picturesque and inviting. Care to knock on the door? Or just have a nibble of the gingerbread? Either way, take great care. The witch is not known for her good nature...

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Helios really just wanted to see this for himself. Though on first delving into the forest that wasn't his immediate goal. He was actually looking for a source or anything else that could be attributed towards the creatures encountered some nights ago. Having found none so far he'll eventually make his way towards a lake and with it the candy house.

Well he's certainly not too surprised about it. Given the nature of this place but still he might tentatively draw himself nearer and nearer to the candy house. Curiosity was a dangerous thing and after what happened to Giles he knows better than to actually provoke the witch. Still when he's close enough he might bring a hand up to one of the walls of the house. Nothing detrimental in his exploration. He's just mildly fascinated okay? An entire house made out of candy from a children's story. He's met Hansel and Gretel but never the witch.

"It...really is gingerbread. Ha! That's rather amazing." Of course it is Helios, you derp, what else would it be made out of?

Out of seeming no where, a walking stick smacks his hand, the gnarled old witch glaring sideways at him. "Have you no manners, little man?"

Oh gods. Helios didn't even see the woman there. There's a slight exclamation of surprise from him as he draws his hand back wincing and flinching a little as he holds up his hands in mild defense. "S-Sorry! I-I'm terribly sorry. I-I didn't realize that someone was here. I-I would have asked..." to examine it otherwise. It's still a curious thing, though. Helios looks sheepishly back at the old witch rubbing his hand with a frown as he does so.

"You're the, ah, w-witch..." obvious statement is obvious.

"No, I'm an artist who specializes in acting as part of the installation," the witch retorted sarcastically with a roll of her eyes. "Daft fool..." she muttered before lurching over to sit on a candy-crusted bench. "What are you doing here anyway?"

Helios frowns. He knew your were being sarcastic, "I-I apologize." Oh goodness this is like talking to Ra isn't it?

"I was s-simply looking for a s-source to the, ah, beings when the forest went haywire." It's probably going to get him called daft again but he has to know where those creatures came from.

He does get a look like she thinks he's an idiot. "A source? Hrph! May as well ask where the source of all you humans are!"

"I-I'd like to know that as well..." a mutters under his breath bringing a hand to his chin. He gives the witch another look over. "It must be extremely powerful magic to bring people from all sorts of worlds here." It's a perplexing question in all honesty. Helios will just begin to pace a little don't mind him.

"You don't know, do you? I-I mean where the creatures came from? Chimeras and-and Rocs don't just...a-appear." Or maybe they do here it was a fairytale type of world after all. A sigh as Helios looks around again.

"At any rate. I-I apologize for, um, d-disturbing you."

Edited 2012-06-05 01:26 (UTC)

She prods at him with her walking stick. "If they don't just appear, where do you think they come from, hrm?"

"Ah!" Helios just flinches at the prob. Please to not be doing that again, thanks. He might shift in his position and look around. "I-I don't know. Th-that's what, what I c-came to find out. I-I mean I don't know m-much about the mechanics or laws of-of this l-land so." So he was trying to figure out just how exactly you have Chimeras and Rocs and all sorts of things living together in a forest and then they simply vanish during the day.

"M-Maybe it's, it's the thorns or something like that?"

She snorted in disbelief. "A wall only makes things invisible to an idiot with no sense."

Another deep frown at that. You are not making this any easier on him, you know? "I-I apologize. So it's n-not the thorns then?" He'll ask in a fleeting tentative question.

Not her job to make anything easy for would be intruders.

"Is your brain so small to think that a wall o weeds like that could spawn those magnificent terrors?"

"Ah-! W-Well they're not, not ordinary weeds are they? I-I mean if they're like the thorns encroaching on the countryside I-I don't know what sorts of powers they might have..."

She snorted with disdain. "Are all things so alike in your simple little mind that you can't tell the difference between a wall and a parasite?"

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