Sunnyville, California

[planetaryguide]

  It's a gorgeous Southern California day in Sunnyville: the sun is shining, music's blaring from cars and open windows, young people are dressed for the beach, seemingly if they're just going to school.

Whitney Winters has come to hate the sun. She sees it as just a big lie glitzing over the horror that lies beneath the world's surface. And she's seen horror.  Horror that's cost her friends, family, her very innocence, 

"Yeah, yeah," she says to herself. "Pity party, table for one." She shakes it off and shuffles to class. That annoying Valentina Cazador is playing in the hallways. "That girl is the devil," she thinks, now realizing that she's late, and doesn't even have her chemistry textbook. She sighs, and doubles back to her locker. 

No sooner has she pulled the book from the locker, though, then she realizes that the hallways has been blocked by a wall of ice. 

"Miss Winters," says a pale white man with a sort of Jack Frost motif costume, "It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm afraid I need you to come with us."

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[jakita_wagner]

Outside, the SUV has just pulled into Visitor parking and Jakita emerges, squinting against the bright sunshine before sliding on a pair on sunglasses.

Assuming that Adam will follow her lead, she heads towards the nearest entrance, scanning as she goes for anything out of the ordinary - no screams, no explosions, nothing melting, no doorways to other dimensions.

Ordinary suburbia sometimes makes Jakita's skin crawl, if only because she's seen what can be under the surface. Ignoring the stares that she's getting from passing students (and the whispers that follow), she opens the door into a long hallway.

As she does, a familiar whisper of cold air brushes past. Jakita's felt that more often than she'd like in fights involving the old man, and since she knows where he's supposed to be...

The door bangs back against the wall as she pushes through at a run towards the source of that cold draft; seeing that the hallway appears to be blocked off ahead does not stop her, and she crashes directly into the barrier.

[jakita_wagner]

Jakita has fallen to her hands and knees, dizzy and fighting off the feeling that the world has literally turned upside down.

"You like ghosts, Whitney? When we're done here, let's take a field trip to Hong Kong."

She squints up at the wizard and climbs to her feet, positioning herself over Whitney's comatose body. Adam can take care of himself, and as much fun as it is to watch the two powerhouses tear each other apart, the girl has priority.

"Do that again, Gandalf, and I'm gonna have to go and throw up on you before beating your face in."