[Even with that warning, there's simply not enough time for Gregory to react. He'd been on his way out of town specifically, so it's not like he was prepared to be blocked off...especially not by what seems to be, for all intents and purposes, an actual ghost.]
Aaahh!!
[The boy startles so badly that he ends up falling backwards, though his fall is mercifully cushioned by one of the many snowdrifts covering the sidewalks. His Teddiursa, that had been on his shoulders, flees to a better vantage point at the back of Gregory's head, gripping his hair with his claws as he buries his face into the back of his head to try and hide himself.
But once Gregory is down, his reflexes dictate he react in a different way beyond cowering or crying or what you might expect any normal child to do.
He reaches into the disturbed snow where the ground had been revealed, snatching up a rock and throwing it as hard as he can at the shroud of smoke and- by extension- the terrifying face heckling him.]
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Aaahh!!
[The boy startles so badly that he ends up falling backwards, though his fall is mercifully cushioned by one of the many snowdrifts covering the sidewalks. His Teddiursa, that had been on his shoulders, flees to a better vantage point at the back of Gregory's head, gripping his hair with his claws as he buries his face into the back of his head to try and hide himself.
But once Gregory is down, his reflexes dictate he react in a different way beyond cowering or crying or what you might expect any normal child to do.
He reaches into the disturbed snow where the ground had been revealed, snatching up a rock and throwing it as hard as he can at the shroud of smoke and- by extension- the terrifying face heckling him.]