They're Just Children - Growing Up In A Warzone - Is Complete!

They're Just Children - Growing Up In A Warzone - Is Complete!

It didn't take too long for the kids to get settled down. Mono managed to teleport to cut Six off and they ran around a table until they both retreated underneath it. When they reappeared next to him and Chica, the Signal Child had his broken mask back on and had an arm wrapped around Six's whole body with her feet dragging along the carpet and tile while she tried desperately not to burst out laughing. She'd reformed her hood back over her face, but the bright little smile and lights of her big ruby eyes shone through the shadow and her oily raven hair.

For just a second, the big burn scar over the right of her face vanished, taking the debris tangled in her hair with it; for just a second, she was a little girl enjoying playtime. No dirt, no mud, no cuts, no bruises; no sickness, no baggy eyes, no skeletal hands; no yellow fangs, no sharpened claws, no sharp eyes on the lookout for food; just rosie cheeks and a pearly smile as her best friend dragged her out of the arcade. Chica got them to lightly wave goodbye to the DJ, who returned the gesture with a grand arm before he chattered his teeth and resumed his song in the relative peace of his portion of the Mega Pizzaplex. According to Roxanne, she and the girls were on their way to Mazercise. Mono refused to stop manhandling Six for her crimes, but she didn't mind being carried along to the other side of the Pizzaplex if he or Freddy were doing it.

By the time they got there, Cassie and Rebecca were visibly on edge. Bailey was tiredly leaning against a wall, her heavy, bloodshot eyes were barely open. Her grip on the tin baseball bat at her side was unusually loose, it was starting to slide over the carpet and hit her leg. All three of them and Roxanne lightened as they entered, especially when Mono appeared hauling his prisoner around. Rebecca's little face lit up like their final act's laser lightshow as the original raincoat girl stuck her tongue out at the other group from under Mono's arms. Cassie failed to hold back a giggle, too, but was sure to keep her distance from the Little Nightmares. Bailey became lucid enough not to miss the scene, but not much else. Her eyes were soft and her smile was warm, but her blinking was slow and her head hung low.

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