[center][h2]Harriette Moore[/h2][/center]
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Harriette had been quiet for a while now. When the faceless guards hobbled them, snatching herself and the others up and beating at their feet, she sucked in a harsh breathe and whimpered but otherwise remained silent. While the marched she kept her eyes pointed forward, her gaze cold and muted. Even while they were brought before the judge she was stunned into silence, the face of the university's president the very last thing she expected to see. Earlier she'd thought that this situation was too terribly real to be anything but that - real. But now her thoughts were whirling around in her head like a storm, throwing doubt on that. After all, Pondwater couldn't be moonlighting as... as some kind of evil, other-dimensional judge? And he'd said that this kind of thing happened before, but she'd been in Barclay for years and never heard of anything like [i]this[/i] happening. Harriette's face was pinched in thought, in worry, as the students tried to explain things to Pondwater. The Pondwater-doppleganger. The man seemed to believe he was being gracious, something Harriette recognized immediately. Whatever was going on, and whatever was going to happen to them... it was apparently the most normal thing in this man's world, and something he reveled in. And now he was doing them a favor, in his mind.

[i]What a joke.[/i] They weren't being put on trial to decide if they were failures or not. They had already been judged, judgement being that they were already failures. Now they had to be put through some horrible test to overturn the verdict? Harriette's hands were fisted at her sides, clenched so tightly that her nails were beginning to draw blood. 

Until then she'd been quiet, yes. Compliant, just taking whatever was thrown at her like she'd always done. That's how she'd lived for the past few years. But it came to a point where she just couldn't be silent any longer. When a girl was picked up by one of those guards Harriette stepped forward with the intent to argue or even try and snatch her back, anything - [b]"!"[/b]

But an ornery young man cut her off, clearly not afraid to speak his mind. It was kind of admirable. And it did the trick. The guardsman put the girl down. But then the situation, as insane as it already was, as completely unbelievable, and totally horrible - got even worse.

Finally Harriette's silence was actually broken, but it was with a shrill scream. The guards mutated into monsters, and they were expected to kill them?!

"Stop this!" She cried, futile. The judge looked back with glee, preparing to sic his beasts on Barney, but once again something seemingly impossible happened. Harriette thought she would have to start getting used to that. A vaguely familiar woman burst onto the scene. She was... on their side? She got right to work battling the creatures and bade them all to run. With everything going on, Harriette took her advice.

She backed away from the monsters and turned to follow the others as they made their escape, but ended up doing a 360 and going back to grab Alina's hand and pull her along too. She'd already been grabbed by those things once, no need to go through it again. Harriette rushed toward the exit then, dragging herself and the girl forward after the others. Her heart was pounding, and it felt like her brain was beating against her skull too. She was scared out of her mind, but there was no time to register that fear. Her only thoughts now were [i]how to get out how to get out how to get out[/i]

The men made to crash right through. Not wanting to split up Harriette went after them. Her bag was still strapped across her chest, and she reached into it with her free hand and pulled out a shoe. She chucked it at the crane monster, not caring if it was a stupid move - it was all she could think to do. What else [i]could[/i] she do? The other shoe came flying after it, as she threw anything she thought would be even remotely annoying at the things to make some kind of opening to get by.