She frowns, looking at the others. "Alright... What now?"

"We go up." Grimalkin hopped lightly onto the wooden platform, followed by Ash and Puck, being careful not to touch the iron railings. Ash pulled Claire up after him, and then Ironhorse clambered aboard. The wooden planks creaked horribly and bent in the middle, but thankfully held firm. Let's just hope the entire thing wouldnt snap like a matchstick when they were three stories in the air.

She glances over at Ironhorse, clearly not a fan of heights as she steps away from the railing.

Puck and Ironhorse each grabbed a rope and began drawing the platform up the side of the building. The dark, mirrored walls reflected a strange party back at them: a cat, two elf-boys, a girl in a slightly tattered gown, and a monstrous black man with glowing red eyes. There was a soft hiss overhead. A gremlin crouched on the pulleys near the top of the roof, slanted eyes glowing in the dark. Spindly and long limbed, with huge batlike ears, it flashed them its razor-blue grin and let out a buzzing cry.

She glares up at it.

Instantly, gremlins started appearing from everywhere, crawling out of windows, scuttling along the walls, swarming over the roof to peer at them. A few even clung to the pulley ropes or perched on the railings, staring at them with their eerie green gaze. Ash pulled Claire close, his sword bared to slash at any gremlin who ventured near, but the tiny Iron fey didnt make any move to attack. Their buzzing voices filled the air, like radio static, and their vivid grins surrounded them with a blue glow as they continued to inch up the wall, unhindered.

"Freaks me out..." she whispers.

A buzz went through the gremlins surrounding them, and the swarm began to clear. Crawling back along the walls, they disappeared through the windows, squeezed into the cracks or scrambled back over the roof. As suddenly as theyd appeared, the gremlins vanished, and the wall was dark and silent again.

"Okay." Puck cast wary looks all around them. "That was...weird. Did someone release gremlin repellant? Did they just get bored?"

Ash sheathed his sword and released Claire. "Maybe we scared them off."

She shakes her head, "I highly doubt that. It looked like they were called back." She mumbles, on edge.

Grimalkin reappeared, scratching his ear as if nothing had happened. "It does not matter now," he said, as the platform scraped up against the roof. "They are gone, and the scepter is close." He yawned and blinked up at them. "Well? Are you just going to stand there and hope it flies into your hands?"