"Mother" replied the girl. "Why is she in there?" asked Joey Wheeler. "It got her" "What got her?" asked Ramui. "The Tall Man" "Why do we avoid the light?" asked Keem "It hides in the light" The back door can be heard creaking open. "Don't open it" stated the little girl. Zemeki peeks inside and sees a woman gaged and hog tied, blood is running down her face as she struggles to break free. "nmmm, mmmm" "Close the door now" she said worried. Zemeki is sticking to the wall above the door invisible. He closes it. "Why?" he asks. There is a knock at the door.
"Don't open it" she says. "Hide in here" states Zemeki unfurling his quilt. Everyone hides under the quilt bunched together. "How do we know if he's gone?" whispered Keem "If it's dark" Joey notices Zemeki holding a knife to the girls throat. "Woah, come down there buddy!" "SHHHH" everyone says. KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK. The knocks get louder. "He's holding a knife to the girls throat" whispered Joey. ""He is?" asked Ramui. "We don't know if we can trust her" "We can dude" said Ramui. "How do you know?" Zemeki asked. "I just do" "If you don't trust her than why are you still in the house?" asked Keem. "For now it seems safe in here" he replied. The knocking stops. "Finally some quite" sighed Ramui. "It's too quite" added Keem "Where is the mother?" The girl looks around the room panicked searching behind every sofa, fridge, etc. Nothing. She checks the closet and see's her mother dead on the floor. "What did you do?" she cried. "She was going to get everyone here killed, she was a liability" responded Zemeki. The girl cried in a corner for the next few hours refusing to talk to anyone. Joey tried to cheer her up but to no avail. "I don't think she's responsible" said Joey. "At this point it's improbable" responded Zemeki.
Finally it was night again. The group leaves walking through the streets. The kids who were passing the ball are now nowhere to be seen. Zemeki notices an indistinct figure of a tall man in the confectionary and alerts the group. A long tongue slides down from where the figures mouth would be and begins licking the blood off the clerks face. The gang adjusts there course to be out of sight of the creature, but it's too late. The man turns his face, it has none of the regular features instead having random thorns coming out of and piercing back into the face. The man stops and picks up a lantern turning it on hiding himself. The gang is running behind buildings cloaked meanwhile Keem sent one of his drones out to try to observe the creature. "Where are we going?" asked Ramui. The device for lowering the drawbridge is in the observatory. Keem observes a light approaching the group. Their efforts to conceal themselves did nothing. Keem see's the light extend into the air and over the building, now able to see long legs emerge from the light from the feet tiny mycelia can be seen protruding from them. The group hears the creaking of the lantern overhead. He's here. "Time for you all to finally see my Haiku ability" said Ramui. "We already know about it" responded Zemeki. "But you haven't seen it" "We need to get out of here, do what you need to do" stated Keem.
Keem, Zemeki and Ramui vanish from sight. "I'm all alone here now" said Joey "It's scary, you know" Joey hears Ramui's voice "Just play dead" he said. "Ok I'm trusting you" Joey said. Ramui, Keem and Zemeki find themselves in a neon green void. It is empty except for screens everywhere showing Joey Wheeler and the area around him. "Joey Wheeler will be our anchor" "This tool is fairly advanced" said Keem "Where did you get it from?" "You know, around" he responded.
This ability uses Jira and Quanta Noads. Jira is the noad associated with presences. Presences are a term used to describe projecting an ability from an external source. This can look like anything from a pressure mine or ally enhancement ability to a contagion or Jojo's stand. In this abilities case Haiku applied a presence to Joey Wheeler with the effect of tying a pocket dimension to it which the ability also creates. Those in the dimension can then re summon themselves into the material world at most 10 feet from the anchor.