[SEASONAL EVENT] A Palmer for Long Night

The luxere could smell the blood. As the monsters dragged the bodies of Emmett's loved ones out into the cold night, their eyes rolled back into their skulls. They came to protect knowing that their light helped stave off the darkness, but this was too much for their fragile and kindly hearts to bear. Indeed as they saw the 4 leave the house, they bellowed plaintively, apologies clear in the ringing of their bugles. They heard Phoebe's song and their hearts lurched. They wanted to stay, but they could not. Instead, they slipped into the darkness, trying not to stampede into the night, but the blood was in the air. It was everywhere and panic had taken them. So they ran, and the sound of their hooves covered the arrival of something else. Or perhaps it had been there all along. It followed. Slowly. Deliberately. Black in the darkness. LONGNIGHT