[DROP] No time like the present

a s h e Ashe had half expected the figure to command them all to then jump off the bridge.. But no such thing happened. She stood firm, and her foot moved forward just slightly it took a step forward once more, toward them, and her heart raced. Would it prove to be malicious? Had it gathered them all for something terrible within that box so black it absorbed all light? Ashe narrowed her eyes, and she braced herself as those dark robes swirled and moved and dropped… nothing. She blinked at the box left behind, averted her gaze from the flash of light and then.. Orbs of light rushed at everyone, so many of the people gathered absorbing them - she saw it enter Remi, her mother, Kalt. She moved toward her family, her heart lurching. ”Mom? Remi?” Were they alright? But then she was halted by a light of her own. Ashe tilted her head as it slowly moved forward, and she gared suspiciously at it as it began to take the shape of… something. It came closer, and its shape, the eight long lines extending from a fuzzy looking little ball.. No way. No way. The assassin held out her palms, watching with unabashed wonder as a little spider just about the size of a kitten materialized. Ashe let out a huff of air, her eyes going wide as the spider let out a hiccup and nearly stumbled off of her small hands, and she quickly angled her palm to keep his balance. ”Hello,” she said quietly. It was so round, a ball of jet black fuzz more like, that she almost couldn’t distinguish it’s eyes and tiny fangs peeking out from it. The spider angled himself to peer up at her on his wobbly legs, letting out chitters that sounded closer to squeaks. A wine spider. She’d gotten a damn wine spider. A soft smile, what felt like her first smile in a long time, flickered across her lips. ”You’re like a lump of soot with legs,” she murmured, maneuvering the spider until he hung comfortably onto one hand. The other raised to stroke slender fingers over the soft hair that covered his body, and she nodded to herself. ”Soot.” Ashe lifted the newly named Soot to her shoulder, and something in her practically melted as it clumsily clambered up, hanging on carefully to her cloak and settling himself close. ”We’ll find you something good, yeah?” She was looking out at the bridge just in time to see Kalt looking over his shoulder with a smirk, and.. He took the box. Idiot. She narrowed her eyes at him, but it was a smirk of her own she was hiding as she lifted her hand to her shoulder and lightly touched Soot - the spider chittered gently and ended it with a soft hiccup.