<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i627.photobucket.com/albums/tt357/Niferbelle/my%20avatars/doomtown7av_zps641b8122.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Lilah 'Li-Li' Oliver (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=200832.msg9813377#msg9813377)<br/><strong>Faction:</strong>There have been a few rumors but who listens to those<br/><strong>Date:</strong>May 20<br/><strong>Time of Day:</strong>Night<br/><strong>Location:</strong>between the sheriff station to the Whateley Estate<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>observing Townsend, Dolores Whateley, doggy, CLOSED<br/><hr/>She was pretty sure her heart just up and stopped as Townsend's terrible fate unfolded. For a moment it looked like the beast was never going to stop growing and she could hardly comprehend the size of it as it ripped into the law man. Lilah was afraid to look away lest the creature's attention fall on her but she simply couldn't watch the completion of its work, watch the spraying blood and the look of glee on mad Delores Whateley's face but though she could close her eyes, nothing could stop the sound. She would never forget it in all her days, Townsend's scream and that wet tearing sound and hard crack of snapping bones. It was only sheer will and the fear of being next that stopped the nausea from overtaking her and emptying her gut. She looked again only when there was a moment of silence, and the sight of the beast tucking Delores under her arm and dashing away with her like she was the doll and any guilt Lilah might have felt for not intervening for Townsend fled with them. If she hadn't been silent, if she'd moved an inch, she'd be dead. Nothing in her power could have hurt that thing.<br/><br/>Dimly she became aware of the sounds of people rushing to toward the area. It was time for her to vacate -- for all she knew, if anybody saw her here, they'd be blaming her next and since she was just some no account Chinese girl and not a Whateley, she'd probably get strung up before they made it back to the jail. She gathered enough wits about her to be on her way, her heart beating again, and didn't stop until she was a safe distance away whereupon she fell against the wall of the building at her back and slowly slid down to the ground. One deep breath. Two deep breaths. She tried to steady her thoughts, knowing she was lucky her legs had waited until now to give out. What she had just seen, she might be the only person in town who knew it, or if there were others, they were likely on the wrong side of it. Raising the alarm about it didn't exactly seem an option. She didn't trust the law dogs, they were crooked as they come, and if this was some sort of family secret, the Whateleys weren't going to leave her in one piece to talk about it for very long. Another deep breath. The smart play was to forget all about it and get the hell out of town, let the beast take it, knowing her people were safely tucked away on a boat that could get them far away from here. The smart thing though didn't always sit easy on your conscience and she suddenly felt the responsibility of being the only one who knew weighing her down.<br/><br/>How many more bodies would it take for her to start feeling like a craven piece cow dung? Sure, there were some folks for who wo uld make the world a better place by not being in it, but what about folks like handsome Reid and his wild brother? All the kids, and the working girls with hard lives who never did nothing but try to get by? Everybody, the deserving and the undeserving alike, were at the mercy of Delores Whateley's deranged mind and her unspeakable 'doggy'. She wasn't sure what she could do but she had to try and find out. Somebody somewhere must know something, and even if it were only a matter to bringing it the attention of somebody who could and would do something about it, she felt like she had to try. It was a good while before she found her feet again and made her way back to the little shack she was calling home and she lay there well into the night, turning events over in her mind.<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;"><em>End scene for Lilah</em></span></div>