𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓬𝔂.

⠀⠀⠀ ꧁ ┊ 𝐼𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 ━━━⋅━━⊰ ☾ ⊱━━⋅━━━ — 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘳. 𝘢𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 / 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘱. ━━━⋅━━⊰ ☾ ⊱━━⋅━━━ ℰ𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓎𝓈 ┊ ꧂

-- while holding up the battered pole for Steven to see. "And you... I-I can lose you, okay?

"B-But... I can take care of myself, you k-know I can.. I-I have this pipe, see..?" Marcy forced a small and crooked smile --

-- might get hurt an-and I'm not losing you, Steven..."

The young demon shook her head, her small hands staying gripped onto Steven. "N-No..." She whimpered quietly. "Then you --

She sat high up in a tree, her red eyes glistening in the starlight as she stared sadly up at sky. "Please just come back..." She whimpered.

-- the mutated creature were to come back around the corner.

Although Steven began to let her go, Marcy's grip on him hadn't loosened at all. She clung onto him tightly, afraid incase --

-- disappeared around the corner.

-- She didn't dare make a noise, knowing these certain mutant type creatures had very good hearing. Eventually, it --

Marceline kept a hand over her mouth, her eyes not leaving the creature that kept on moving without noticing the pair. --

-- from the empty sockets of its eyes and mouth, it was yet to notice the pair.

-- wanting him to go alone and possibly get hurt. Up the back of the store, a pale creature lurked around, green goo oozing --

Marcy's grip on the pipe tightened, she nodded in response to Steven and stayed at least three metres behind him, not --