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The sonic scream of the Apparition followed by Zoey’s cursing told Penny that her shot hadn’t been the deathblow. She gripped the freshly graffitied knives and looked up in time to see the Apparition barreling towards them. She stumbled to the side and was knocked off-balance as it tore past her without hesitation, landing with her elbows on the padded snow. Penny ignored the sharp flair up of pain as she fired a knife off wildly after the Apparition. The blade was swallowed in the chaos caused by the collapsing building: a total miss. She cursed and looked for a replacement, but the knife block had been blown away by the rushing Apparition.  

"Shiiiiiiit!" Zoey said. "That thing has one helluva hard-on for Stacey. Hop on!"

[color=goldenrod]“I want the record to show that I hate this idea,”[/color] said Penny as she looked at Zoey’s conjured snow mound with uncertainty. She hopped up to her feet, smacked the snow off of her cardigan, and grabbed Zoey’s hand. [color=goldenrod]“Fucking shit! Get some gloves or something,”[/color] barked Penny as she recoiled and helped herself on to Zoey’s poor-man snowmobile. [color=goldenrod]“If this thing kills me I’m going to haunt your a—”[/color]

The final word was ripped out of Penny’s mouth as Zoey’s snow mound rocketed off after the Apparition at a much faster speed than she had anticipated. She barely managed to wrap a hand around the other girl’s waist to keep herself from falling off. Penny pressed her face into Zoey’s back to protect it from the cold of the whipping wind and buried a roller coaster scream into her jacket. Why’d Zoey ever waste her time with walking when this was an option? Penny peeked one eye open and caught sight of the Apparition as it barreled into Odessa and sent her skipping like a stone down the street. Her chest tightened and released as the under dressed girl looked up from where she laid. Good, she wasn’t dead.

[color=goldenrod]“We’re totally doing that again!”[/color] said Penny as she jumped off of Zoey’s ride so she was near Stacey. Her vision buzzed. If Zoey was right about tall, dark, and smoky wanting to jump Stacey’s bones then it’d have to go through her first. She snapped her remaining knife-cicle at the Apparition and followed up with a flurry of loose pocket change as she positioned herself between the Apparition and its haunt. She wiped a droplet of blood from her nose and smirked as she activated her enhanced vision again. All of this swapping was proving to be quite the mental workout. Still, she’d rip this thing apart way before it wore her down. 

[color=goldenrod]“If you’re going to start running, do it directly away from me. Don't fuck this up,”[/color] she said to Stacey more harshly than she intended. She knelt down and began to draw a large glyph in the snow. Her other hand fished around in her bag for [i]anything.[/i] The plan was simple: get the Apparition to charge Stacey and she’d spring the trap to hit it with the largest spike of ice she could muster. She had no concern about reacting in time to pull it off; she just needed a few more heartbeats to finish the glyph.