Clumps of dirt slowly tilted and fell free from the Nightcap's loosely curled fingers – a sensation it would've like to enjoy if it weren't for the rapidly rising paranoia gripping it utterly. It couldn't afford anymore interruptions or do-gooders or sad-eyed pretender children or...or anything! When holding a breath was a chore, when aches persisted in and out of motion, and when foreign little girls could knock open doors to beings bound to another...
No, certainly no time for more.
In seeing nothing in its foggy gaze, in smelling nothing in a nose clotted with something certainly not natural, and in hearing nothing but leaves amid a windy sigh, it hunched back over and renewed its search.
It gave a strange, jubilant sound upon hearing a jingle, which sharply changed to outrage and frustration. The foliage hovering around the Nightcap was tossed, shredded, and accosted by flailing arms and a body twisting itself up and away from its excavation.
"NOT THAT," it shouted into the air, completing a full turn before throwing its miserable loot away. Coins tinkled and smacked limb and leaf, lost and forgotten immediately out of spite.
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No, certainly no time for more.
In seeing nothing in its foggy gaze, in smelling nothing in a nose clotted with something certainly not natural, and in hearing nothing but leaves amid a windy sigh, it hunched back over and renewed its search.
It gave a strange, jubilant sound upon hearing a jingle, which sharply changed to outrage and frustration. The foliage hovering around the Nightcap was tossed, shredded, and accosted by flailing arms and a body twisting itself up and away from its excavation.
"NOT THAT," it shouted into the air, completing a full turn before throwing its miserable loot away. Coins tinkled and smacked limb and leaf, lost and forgotten immediately out of spite.
"Stupid! Stupid, stupid!"