Unbound: The Webs We've Spun

A Burning Canvas

The creaking of the wires ring through the air, the tied up intruders lay there unconscious as jinn releases the wire tied around their necks.

D: The more we have to go through this the more I'm getting hungrier
J: Yea I'm starting to feel myself slip a bit
D:What if I just take one of them to eat.
J: They are too weak to satiate the hunger.

Jinn walks back towards where he left Rui a small bubble sits in the floor he taps the bubble and the cocoon of wires unravels and disintegrates "You look like a nice little snack curled up like that" I tease and I poke Rui on her cheek. "Well it's not like I'm able to be of much use at the moment I'm still adjusting to this GEAAR nonsense" Rui says standing up twiddling the box inside her hand.

"Dont worry you'll be able to take it out for a test run outside" Jinn was before snapping his fingers
Switch—
Suddenly Jinn and Rui are teleport outside sitting on a spread of wires in the pattern of a spiders web. "I finally was able to wake up my marionettes I've placed around the mansion we now have a bit of a blind spot here" Jinn says twisting and adjusting the wires inside his GEAAR.
D:Something tells me the enemy is related to the family or was already here before us.
J: I was thinking that as well no one entered the house the entire time and they have enough people to enclose off the entire estate outside the range of my web.
The two talking aloud this time sharing their thoughts with Rui.
Suddenly someone came running through the clearing and intruder clad in black seemingly frightened and running from something.
"This place is nuts why did I get tasked to the inside unit" The intruder complained as he stopped running and caught his breath
Your guards down
Suddenly the intruder is flung upwards in the tree

The Widow's Guillotine

The stranger is now hogtied in the air staring at Jinn. He runs his fingers across the thing wire and it hums a sharp tune like a blades steel cutting through the wind itself. "I hope your compliant and I don't have to make you another dead body I have to clean up later" Jinn says as he hangs just above his prey his eyes fixated and never moving.

As Jinn studied the intruder, his wires pulsed, reading the rhythm of her heartbeat—erratic, but not entirely panicked. "I'm just a new recruit," she blurted out, struggling to keep her voice steady. "I was ordered to guard the forest, to make sure no external forces intervened."

Jinn tilted his head, scrutinizing her words as he reached forward and removed her mask. A woman.

Letting out a sharp whistle, he smirked. "Well, what do you know? Thought I caught a fly, but turns out I've snared a butterfly instead." His voice dripped with amusement as he turned to Rui. "She's not much of a threat. Seems clueless about what's really going on."

Without warning, he snatched the woman's GEAAR from her belt and crushed it in his grip. A dull crack echoed through the air, fragments slipping through his fingers like sand. "Cheap knockoffs." He let the pieces crumble, holding his palm over his own GEAAR. Black grains of sand trickled down, absorbed into the device like ink vanishing into water. "That should stave off the hunger for the rest of the night."

With little effort, he pulled the woman up and laid her on the web-like wires beneath them. "I'll leave a Marionette to watch over you." He extended a hand, summoning a small, wooden spider from his GEAAR. It twitched to life, clicking its tiny limbs before vanishing into the threads.

Rui watched in fascination. "I didn't know you had such cute little guys."

Jinn chuckled. "Cute? That one bites."

Rui rolled her eyes but quickly sobered. "So... if we're leaving her here, does that mean we're going to pick up Michi?"

Her expression shifted—worry creeping into her features.