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[Kallistiae]

Kai returned Hartia's cheshire grin, if only because it so mirrored her own usual toothy expression that she could not resist.
Hartia was one of those odd few who the little wolf could not seem to decide if she loved, or hated.
It was fair to say that about 90% of the time, Kai wanted to kick him in the shin...but in spite of herself, every now and then...she actually kinda did like him. She had been genuinely concerned when she'd thought he was going to freeze to death from all the glamour pumping through his veins. Yes, she had been concerned about the fact that he'd eaten an enormous amount of her money, but she'd also been worried about him dying, not because she was worried she wouldnt get her money back, but because...she thought he was dying. She didnt want him to die.
She wanted him to shut up, a great deal of the time, but not die.

As he walked out the door, Kai slid the key into a hidden drawer in the cash register, tucked under the tray that held the money. The briefcase she took with her as she turned on her heel and headed back into the kitchen.
For now, she would lock it in the safe she kept in the walk in freezer. It was sadly devoid of product after Hartia's little stunt, but with the money he'd given her in advance she'd be able to get a new supply in soon to stock back up and get him outfitted to sell....wherever it was he was selling. She'd be in for a pleasant surprise, too, whenever she got around to opening the case and counting out her haul. She hadnt really expected to make anything extra off of him (thought it never hurt to try). It might even make her a little more fond of the man. He could be alright. Sometimes.
When he wanted to be.

The money and the key locked up in separate locations, Kai would yawn again, stretch, and head out the back door located in the kitchen.
The sun was up properly, sitting high in the sky now as the little wolf stared into the face of noon. She shaded her eyes with her hands for a moment before she got to work.
There was always a million things to do in a place like this, but since she had been able to convince Hartia to magic the place into some semblance of order the other day, her usual 'honey-do' list had gotten a lot shorter. His magic had scoured the place clean, replaced most of their larder (although, much like when you let someone else do your grocery shopping for you, Kai had found that the brands and items chosen were not exactly to her preference), and fixed a rather large handful of the minor things that tended to go wrong around the building. The paint on the front sign wasnt peeling anymore, the back porch door's hinge no longer shrieked when she opened it - hell, the garden hose was even sitting in a neat coil against the side of the house now, when Kai was pretty sure it had always existed in a complex and impossible to solve knot half buried under the porch for most of creation.
This left her with a little free time to do some things that were more up her alley than minor home repairs.

Swinging from a low branch in the backyard was the carcass of a deer, its antlers scraping small lines in the dirt below as it swung slowly back and forth. It had been caught the other day, and with this being the earliest days of spring, it still got plenty cold enough at night and in the mornings to keep the thing half frozen until she could deal with it today.
The wolf whistled absently to herself as she went about dressing the deer, letting the blood drain into a bucket at her feet as she worked to cut the hide free.
She wasnt quite sure how to actually tan a hide, but now seemed like a good time to learn. She had internet access out here - she'd google it.
Her eyes were still tired, all of her stiff and slow with a bone deep weariness, but the cool breeze felt good on her shoulders and it stirred the loose strands of her hair in a friendly and familiar way. The sun slanted through the trees and warmed her skin as she worked, and despite her exhaustion she looked...happy?
No. Content.
She looked content, and pleased to be doing something useful with her hands.
There was still a smear of dirt across her cheek, and a few leaves in her hair form her earlier foray into the bushes to deal with the pixies. Now there was the added bonus of deers blood smeared across her cut off shorts where she'd absent mindedly wiped her hands.
Her whistling turned into humming as she worked, which turned into words sung whisper soft to herself:

"...Oh! sweet she was,
And pure and fair,
The maid with honey in her hair
the maid, with honey in her hair..."

[Vicious Trinity]

Trinity was stepping back toward the building. She was in the general vicinity behind the place, coming forth from the forested areas. So she happened to see Kai over yonder messing around with hung meat. The red-haired woman didn't have a taste for such things, but only her closest knew her eating habits. Kai could be close, too, if she stopped being stubborn to Trinity's advances of making her into a subordinate. She stepped with a centerline path of her feet, a type of walk that made it looked like she owned the patch of grass she walked on. She finally got close enough to slow down, looking upon the woman.

"What is life? Can you answer that question?"

[stillnohero]

The coming of spring meant it was time to actually travel and explore once again. Sure he was late on retreating for the winter, though he made it home before the full swing of winter was upon him. Well, technically he didn't have a home, but he did settle somewhere for winter, that much was certain. Possibly obvious since he hadn't been back here in quite some time. He hadn't even tried to visit through the cold season. Which was great considering nobody was here anyway. He still looked approximately the same as before, excluding the nice bear pelt he used as an extra layer of warmth. Ironically enough, he would appear from the side of the building, giving him vantage to the front and back of the Alibi. With some ease, he spotted two figures. And once close enough, he could make out figures with some minor detail. That smaller one near the now being skinned game could have been Kai, though his smirk quickly left him when he noticed that red.

"What? It can't be....The Witch!"

He mentioned with more excitement than volume. Balling his fists at his sides, he took to a quickened march, stomping his way across the field towards the two. His mind raced at the past he shared with these two women, and that was enough to see that Trinity's ship was nowhere near. Not that he could see anyway. Still, the woman was incredibly dangerous, and his mind told him to easily assume she was here still pestering Kai to join her cause. If Kai declined the offer again, would the red lady lay waste to this establishment and those within it as well? Little did he know, she had been here before, and left without harming a hair on not one head. Once he was close enough, he was sure one of them if not both of them would look over to see him approaching, a rather rough grimace carried on his expression.

"WITCH!?"

He released in a guttural yell as he closed on them swiftly.

Vicious Trinity

Kallistiae

[Kallistiae]

Half high from exhaustion and singing softly to herself as she skinned game was as close as Kai ever came to zen without the aid of copious amounts of liquor or drugs.
She didnt look up as Trinity approached, tongue between her teeth for a moment as she focused on a particularly delicate piece of the hide, her song pausing in mid stride and picking back up where it had left off the second she had cleared the area she was working on.
"The bear smelled the scent, on the summer air
The Bear! The Bear!
All black and brown, and covered with hair..."
It might not look like it, but she actually was pondering Trinitys question, and after a long moment she shrugged, withdrawing the hunting knife from the carcass and flicking it carelessly away from the two of them to splatter blood across the grass. She wiped the remainder away on her jeans, leaving herself somewhat a mess but her blade exceedingly clean.
"Life is just that bit that happens before you die, i guess."
The wolf shrugged again and finally looked up at Trinity, gold eyes blinking with a curious flicker in them.
To be fair, it was an odd question that didnt really have much of an answer.
"Preferably with as much liquor and enjoyable company in the middle as possible."

Any other philosophical pondering, however, would be cut short by the sound of a shout on the edge of the property. The wolf blinked again, the sound familiar, but she couldnt quite place it until she looked up and shaded her eyes against the sun, spotting the massive form of the approaching viking at the edge of the clearing that served as her backyard.
The little wolfs face lit up for a moment, before she realized he was approaching awful fast, with that shoulders-forward, fist-clenched march of a man on the warpath.
Gold eyes flickered from him to Trinity and back as realization dawned, and she held up both of her hands palm out in a futile pacification.
"Ohgeeznowait, shes a guest..." It would look very bad on Kai's record of hospitality if the viking got in a fist fight with Trinity on her back porch...and then provoked the red queen into another apocalyptic laser attack.
Kai didnt have laser insurance. "I swear. She's here in Peace. Mostly. Probably.

[Vicious Trinity]

What a dull answer. Trinity's eyes could not roll any harder. And roll they did in the direction of the barking man that stomped toward them with aggression in his voice, stride, and body. Trinity may have reacted to the man's outburst in any other moment, but she was not in a battle kind of mood. Contrary to belief, she was not one always looking for a fight. It was always a means to an end for her. If there was no reason to raise her sword, she would not. Unless she was in that special mood to play with someone. She was quirky like that.

Trinity purposefully forgot faces, but his unfortunately was a mark alongside Kai's. She knew where she met him. She knew what happened that day, too. Her ship was nowhere, yes. She was here alone. And even then, that was more than enough, as she would have gloated if she were in the mood to respond to him with the same catcall that he was doing.

"Animals walk together, I see."

She was referring to that ridiculous fur clothing he was wearing, and referencing Kai's bestial nature.

"Losers, too. You survived. Be thankful that I am here for other reasons than domination."

As far as she was concerned, she had already dominated this place. It was just a matter of saying it straight to Kai's face. At least until the woman got enough courage to tell Trinity that she would not claim this as her territory. She raised her hand toward Kai.

[stillnohero]

((Just a note, I mentioned he wasn't wearing the pelt due to the weather warming up. Not like it matters much.))

Bjorn came to a halt roughly five feet from Trinity, facing her still. Kai mentioned something about her being a guest, and Trinity herself throwing her ego out there like the coward she was. She spoke of losers when she in fact was the loser. Hiding behind the usual witch's trickery and a fakkin hueg ship gun in the moment she was easily ripping the scab from. His fists remained balled up, his jaw clenching as he just starred at her for a good moment. Despite his want to smash to pieces, his gaze shifted to Kai with a slight turn of his head. He remembered how he could take Trinity's minions, but not the witch herself. To her, he was child's play. And while it might sting his pride a bit, he wasn't stupid.

"Did you hit yer'ead or sumthin' in m' absence lass? Whats wrong with ye'? The witch tried to kill you, KILL US! Yet ye' still allow her t' be here as yer guest?"

He mentioned to her in a mildly scolding manner before shaking his head and looking back to Trinity herself.

"An' there is nuthin' ye' can do t'make me thankful of ye' presence witch. Ye' just be thankful that the Gods haven't frowned upon ye'....yet."

On that note, despite the delicious looking game and the welcomed presence of Kai, Bear would stalk past Trinity and head for the Alibi. So long as he felt as he did and Kai was immediately around Trinity, he had to excuse himself. After all, not everyone here was gifted graciously by their Gods. Bear would gladly walk into his death, whether he returned or not. But if provoking the witch caused harm to the others here, he could never forgive himself. So he would try to avoid the fight he knew he couldn't win, only for the sake of innocent lives.

[Kallistiae]

"Animals walk together, I see."
Kai blinked and glanced sideways at Trinity with a single slim eyebrow raised and a faint downward tilt of her lips. She wasnt insulted, exactly - Kai was a wolf after all. 'Animal' wasnt exactly an insult to her; but the way Trinity said it was clearly an insult and Kai was just tired enough to be either extremely zen or astoundingly cranky depending on which way the wind blew.
"Losers, too..."
This time Kai did bristle, spinning her hunting knife deftly between her fingers for a moment before flicking it sharply sideways. The blade stayed in her hand, but the irritated gesture sent a few fine drops of deers blood splattering against the womans otherwise flawless face.
Kai opened her mouth to say something as well, but she didnt get the chance.
Gold eyes blinked and refocused upwards at the Vikings face as he scolded her.
The tone of his voice was, for half a moment, so similar to Thanos' every time he'd scolded her for getting in over her head*, and so unexpected that she shuffled her feet guiltily for several moments before she realized what she was doing and forced herself to hold still.
"Did you hit yer'ead or sumthin' in m' absence lass? Whats wrong with ye'?"
"I-" she started to say in her defense, but there was no room to get a word in edgewise.
"The witch tried to kill you, KILL US!"
"Yeah, but she-"
"Yet ye' still allow her t' be here as yer guest?"
"Ok, but-"
And then his attention was gone, switched back to the 'witch' without giving her a proper chance to defend herself or explain her actions.
Kai blinked again, and for a moment you could almost see the wolf behind her skin, ears flattened and tail somewhat tucked against the scolding.
The Viking had a point, after all. Trinity had quite properly almost killed them both. Kai had been thrown clear of the blast, just barely, and had woken up in a crumpled heap at the base of a particularly sturdy tree with a half cracked skull and a leg that had broken and healed painfully crooked while she was unconscious - which had required that the bone be re-broken in order to set it properly, a task which Kai had not enjoyed despite a copious amount of drugs to ease the process.
....but still. If Kai refused to accept Trinity's presence in the bar, it could quite easily lead to a fight. Trinity was not the sort who was used to being refused.
So far her stay had been peaceful and, all things considered, rather uneventful.
Kai hadnt seen her draw so much as a nail-file, let alone a weapon, and she'd offered no violence to the other guests. It wasnt ideal, no, but it was the....political thing to do.
Refusal would lead to conflict and conflict would inevitably lead to destruction of property.
Kai wasnt afraid of death - Trinity could kill her quite easily, but a wolf knows when a fight is lost and when to go to ground. Kai would flee before things ever escalated to that level.
But she was afraid of the only semblance of a home she had burning to the ground, and the few people she'd managed to befriend laying dead and charred in the nearby brush.
No, this wasnt ideal. But she didnt have a whole lot of option.
Besides, despite the whole 'i fired a laser cannon at you' thing, Trinity wasnt terrible company.
Dry and a little....wooden....it that way military commanders tended to have, but all the same she wasnt nearly as bad as, say, Hartia to have in the common room.

The Viking stalked off into the bar, and Kai watched him go, still looking somewhere between scolded and irritated.
"Now look what you did." she grumbled to Trinity as she turned back to her deer, sliding her fingers up under the skin and beginning to pull it off. "Gonna be all tense with righteous indignation all night, now - thats my weekend shot. How'm I supposed to get him to bed if he's all grumpy like that?"
Kai finished pulling the skin off her prize, and began spreading it out over a nearby branch to dry, still muttering under her breath.
She ran the back of her hand over her eyes for a moment, then turned and aimed a small scowl at the woman.
"Was there a point to your philosophical pondering, or have you been eating unknown forest mushrooms?"
Bjorn was a good man. Kai was a little surprised that he'd reined in his temper before things had come to blows, but she realized a moment later that she shouldnt have been.
He was a good man.
He wouldnt start a fight on her property, if it would cause trouble for her or her people.
She felt a small rush of affection for the viking and glanced at the back porch door before turning back to Trinity and making an impatient gesture with her knife, obviously wanting this wrapped up so she could go speak with her friend.


*Which had happened at least once a week if not more, when she was younger

Vicious Trinity

Peccaminous Peregrine

[Vicious Trinity]

The gods. Trinity had her fill of gods. There was another title she had, but the man would learn it another day, and then it would only anger him even more when he comes to understand just how defying Trinity can be, even to the upper echelons.

The matter between Kai and Trinity was a lot more complicated than a mere obedience to keep the peace. There were a lot of things she did not know about Trinity, and that alone acted as a deterrent without the woman having to lift a finger. Then again, the whole laser event back at LaMagra would keep anyone from trying to do anything to her for a while. That was a powerful weapon in itself, but Trinity never said anything about its current status to anyone, so whether she still had this destructive force or not was not known.

Kai was just a little disobedient woman was she not. She had this whole passive aggressiveness act going on, and Trinity was not one for that kind of mood. She either the person backed down completely or they went at her with full force. One of her little quirks she had with people, a rare thing for her to be reacting to anyone else's personality. Trinity reactively turned her head to the side to have the blood splash against her left cheek. All the while, her eyes were dead on the woman. Her eyes never changed how they look. There were not any facial reactions or change in expression from it. The woman's emotions were hidden.

"There are lots of points to anything I say. For I speak only to divulge truth."

She redirected her head at the woman. She rose her left hand, pressing her finger against the affected area that was dotted with the blood of a dead animal. Dead animals may become a thing with that kind of attitude being emitted from Kai. Trinity was not exactly insulted, but the woman did not know that. It was all a part of the little mindgame going on in this place between the two. Kai would not know whether that alone was a bad thing. The guilt must have been stiffening, like a child having kicked at their mother and getting a sudden bad vibe throughout their body realizing that they have just done something horribly wrong.

"Kai. Clean this off my face."

And then came a demand that enforced Trinity's hold over the woman. She was going to force the woman to enter into this little psychological warfare of theirs. This was surprisingly entertaining for the Red Assassin. What better way to get to know someone than to test their limitations and dispositions. Their fears and desires. Their wants and their needs. Trinity saw a bit of Kai's side at LaMagra, the way the girl defied her despite the inevitable chaos. But the woman had regressed back into her protective side and allowed Trinity to stay within her vicinity. Was it out of fear she did it? Out of respect? Or maybe she was keeping her enemies close to her so that she may exploit her in some vengeful way?

So this is what it felt like to play with your food. Trinity never indulged in the act of pushing her superiority over someone else. She was forceful to the degree that no one should tell her what to do, but she never took it much to the point of demanding things from others simply because she was the stronger of the two. She threatened for reason, not for fun. Fun. What a word that was to her.

[Kallistiae]

"There are lots of points to anything I say. For I speak only to divulge truth."
"What're you the Red Prophet, now?" Kai asked absently as she straightened the skin on the branch a little and began casting about for something to wipe her hands on to clean the sticky gore off them. It was making her knife handle to slippery to carve the meat off the animal. "Behold my glory and wisdom? Bow down and worship, puny mortals?"
There was a tone in her voice that was clearly not cooperating with Trinity's idea of being taken seriously. In fairness, its hard for someone like Kai to take something so...somber and...dramatic, seriously.
Aaaat least until she accidentally caught Trinity's eye while glancing around for a rag or particularly large leaf to clean with.
Kai blinked and leaned ever so slightly backwards despite the fact that they were a good few feet apart, clearly caught off guard. She only just barely managed to not actually take a step backwards, and despite the fact that she was not currently in her fur you could once again almost see her ears visibly flattening against her skull.
There are a few things that have to be understood about Kai's mentality.
First and foremost she was a wolf - a wolf that had no intent or desire to ever be Alpha. That reaction to a certain posturing, a certain press of authority was bred into her by a millennia of evolution.
Secondly, Kai had been raised her entire life to respond a certain way to that sharp, hard press of dominance. The cool lack of emotion, the weight of hard eyes so heavy that it could force your knees to bend without the master ever needing to lift a finger. It was a tone of voice, a set of jaw, a tilt of the head and the carefully chosen words.
"Kai. Clean this off my face."
Her pulse quickened ever so slightly in response, and her eyes flickered over to the little drops of blood that stood out painfully prominent against the sharp, pale perfection of Trinity's cheekbone.
Kai had been bred and trained to respond to a voice like that, from the first moment she had been bought and sold. Orders like broken glass. Like ice cracking under your feet.
That sharp, sweet feeling of fluttering weightlessness right before you plummet to the ground.
It was a Game, but it was so much more than that - it always had been.
Trinity was hardly the first to play it with her, though Kai didnt think the Red Queen was playing quite the same game Kai had been taught...
Gold eyes flickered from the blood to Trinity's eyes, hard and blank as stone, the wolfs own rolling gold a sharp contrast. Calm versus turmoil, order and chaos.
Kai's instinctual reaction, bred into her blood and reinforced by 20 some years of cold hands, sharp kisses, vivid bruises and the scent of leather...her first reaction was to Obey.
But that reaction was tempered, directly countered by the wolfs own nature.
She wanted to Obey - and she wanted to Defy.
Sometimes she wanted to Defy just for the pleasure of seeing what would happen if she did. How far she could push those boundaries that were presented to her.

Far from being cowed, her gold eyes began to dance with that nearly suicidal tricksters delight.
Trinity had the eyes and the voice of Domme...but she had not earned the right to Kai's obedience.
....besides.
This was so much more fun.

Kai stepped forward, closing the space between them dutifully as she reached forward as if to obey - and then with a calm deliberation, she smeared the pad of her thumb over Trinity's cheek, leaving a long and vivid smudge of blood behind from her dirty fingers.
The wolf grinned, careless and toothy as any wild thing, and gave a laugh as delighted as a child before she ducked away like a lightning flash and tossed herself into the surrounding woods at top speed.
Her answer echoed back to the clearing, thick with defiant amusement - "Make me."
Alright, Trinity.
Lets play.

Vicious Trinity

[Vicious Trinity]

Kallistiae

The grass beneath her feet separated as Trinity reacted just as she took off. In one swift lunge, she attempted to grab the woman by the arm before she could even get halfway to the trees. If she succeeded, the red-haired woman would squeeze it tight, and use it to swing her around and plant Kai face first into the dirty soil with a hand pressed against the back of her head for extra support. But if the woman managed to slip away, well...Trinity had a way of making her see eye to eye.

[Kallistiae]

Trinity was fast - faster than Kai had anticipated, and the little wolfs body and reactions were slow from too many nights without sleep.
Kai hadnt even realized it.
It was the sort of damage that creeps up on you, slow and silent. A few hours missed, here or there. Some restless tossing and turning. Your eyes get gritty and your muscles slow, your whole body seeming just a little bit heavier, but you adjust to it as its happening so in the end you're always blindsided by just how badly you need to sleep.
It had been almost a year now since Kai had slept like a normal person. Almost a year of fitful sleeping, restless nights and nightmares. A year of half-mad hallucinations in the dark, brought on by a mind strained under lack of sleep, or guilt, or vodka, or magic - or all of the above. Months since she'd had a night where some horror didnt stalk through her dreams at least once a night. Weeks since she'd slept 8 hours straight.
She cat napped, like a soldier on an active battlefield, two or three hours at a time when she could catch it. It had been enough to keep her going at an almost normal pace for nearly a year.
It wouldnt keep her going much longer.

The wolfs eyes widened with surprise as she felt fingers close around her arm, caught completely off guard. She should have been able to get away. She knew she was faster than this.
She kept telling herself that, even as Trinity spun her and the earth came crashing forward.
Kai fell with a hard thump and a series of swearwords muffled by damp earth and crumpled grass. The little wolf squirmed, but it was a futile sort of squirming that wrenched painfully at the shoulder Trinity had pinned behind her back. The hand at the back of her head forced her face further into the dirt and she coughed and sputtered now amid her swearing as she inhaled some of it.
She tasted blood and clay, and she was fairly certain she'd bitten through her lip when she'd been tossed.
This wasnt right.
Kai was better than this, she knew she was.
She didnt have any illusions about her strength or power level. It wasnt as if she believed she could take Trinity in an all out fight. Kai just didnt have the range, the skill sets, necessary to go toe to toe with highrollers like that.
But Kai wanst exactly a lightweight. She could hold her own well enough, for a small time, and she knew she was fast enough to at least make it to the tree line.
Something was wrong.
The little wolf frowned into the soil and tried to do a weary mental assessment, but the math kept coming back as a vague question mark.
"Whu juff haffemd?" she demanded through the dirt, sounding more irritated with herself than worried about her current predicament.

Vicious Trinity

[Vicious Trinity]

Kallistiae

Using the same arm, Trinity turned the woman on her back. She sat down upon the woman's stomach, her legs knelt on each side. Raising her off without some form of strength would be difficult, especially considering she was in a position that held down the woman's center of gravity. She looked upon the marred face of Kai as she rested her hands onto her thighs.

"No, this will not do."

She shook her head, closing her eyes for a moment.

"When you ran off like that, I saw imperfections in your sprint. That is one of the many things I saw wrong in your form."

She took the fingers of her right hand, index and middle, and pointed them at her own eyes. She leaned down some to make the inspection closer, the side bangs of her red hair following as the tips rested upon Kai's bosom.

"My eyes, what do you see in them? You see what you want to see because they are the mirror into your own little dispositions. No one can read me through them. You, on the other hand. Your eyes tell me everything like broken glass. You look at me with disdain, fear, and something else I cannot pick up."

That something else was admiration. She had yet to acknowledge that Kai saw her as some form of an incomplete leader who had yet to win her over. Which is what Trinity was trying to do all this time, in her own unique way.

"Most of all, I see unrest."

She leaned back upright in her seated position.

[Kallistiae]

Kai grunted as she was flipped over, and took the opportunity to spit some dirt out of her mouth and nose as Trinity's weight settled on her stomach. Kai apparently did not feel as if she was in any real danger, as she didnt really seem to be struggling - or, perhaps she just knew a lost cause when she saw one.
"No, this will not do."
Kai blinked up at Trinity, pausing for a moment in her attempt to wipe some of the dirt off her face without having access to her hands - it was proving to be remarkably difficult.
Imperfections in her sprint? Something wrong with her form?
....Kai had a form?
Kai opened her mouth to tell Trinity that she didnt have a form, and that she was sprinting the way she had always sprinted, which is to say simply 'very fast and away from whatever is trying to hit me'. Kai didnt have any training, not the way Trinity probably did. There had never been anything even remotely formal about Kai's various haphazard instructions throughout life.
Thanos had been a solider, a General, a Weaponsmaster. He had taught countless other little pet projects how to properly fight. The various aspects of war and command. He had no doubt drilled them mercilessly, without compassion, until their form and bearing was flawless.
For Kai...she had been given a pistol and taught not to point it at people she didnt intend to kill. That was about the extent of her formal training. Everything she knew how to do, she had learned from trial and error, on her own, and in painful ways. Her eldest sisters idea of 'bonding' had been to stage surprise ambushes at the most inopportune moments of Kai's day, and leave her bloodied, bruised, occasionally broken in a few places, and most frequently furious.
True, that could be considered training after a sort, but its not the kind that tends to pay much heed to things like form. Mostly it just makes you jumpy and paranoid.
Kai's lips parted to try and explain this, but Trinity was already talking again and so the wolf sighed and let her head thump back to the earth as she waited for the red queen to finish. Half way through her speech, Kai's head lifted again and she began trying to wipe some of the dirt off her face with Trinity's pant leg, rubbing her cheek against the womans thigh like a particularly disgruntled cat.
It looked as if she wasnt paying attention...but that wasnt necessarily true.
You see what you want to see because they are the mirror into your own little dispositions.
People have always seen what they wanted to see. Gold eyes squinted tiredly up at the other woman and wondered what it was that she wasnt seeing - and what made Trinity think she was seeing so much clearer than the plebeian hoard.
"Most of all, I see unrest."
Kai blinked again and fidgeted a little, somewhat discomfited by the word choice. Not 'lack of sleep' but actual 'unrest'. It was...oddly more appropriate and entirely too close to the mark for her comfort.
"I dont have disdain for you." the wolf said, instead of addressing the last comment. "I mean...ok, your negotiation skills are pretty shitty from what I recall. That 'my way or death' stance works great as the leader of a barbarian horde, but you'd get a lot more deals made to your benefit if you learned how to haggle."
Kai gave a little shrug, that was more of an ambiguous faint wiggle from underneath the weight of Trinity's body.
"Thats just what you are though. You are stone. You were not made to bend. I cannot fault people for being true to their nature."
Kai had been a little disdainful of Trinity's reaction at la Magra, both because of her inability to strike a fair deal when offered and because of her over-the-top reaction when she had burned a perfectly harmless and useful village to the ground for no other reason than to make a point - but it had been a disdain born more from the waste of such an action than disdain for the woman herself.
"I think you do not always see quite as clearly as you would like to think that you do."
A hearbeat of pause, and then...
"....can I get up now? I think im laying on a puddle."

Vicious Trinity

[BrokenDollEyes]

Kita had escaped to the front of the building a cigarette dangling from plump lips. She had made her statement to Tank and simply left him to ponder over it while she took a break, the sun washed warm across her skin. It was a beautiful day, a day that held so much adventure. Yet all she could think about was shifting skin, climbing a tree and bathing in the golden light. Maybe she could convince the big brute to nap with her, maybe the extra curricular activities would be put on hold. Or a nap after it. A small chuckle bubbled into the air as she puffed away on the stick. Maybe she had.over thought everything. Maybe the girl just needed to lay off the big guy and see what may come. Inhaling one last time the cat plucked the burning paper from her mouth. Proceeded to stub out the rest of its life upon the bottom sole of her shoe and flick it into a bucket. Had the bucket been there before she couldn't say. s**t magically happened here!

Lifting up arms above the head and interlocking fingers the girl gave one good stretch. The kind that popped the back and stretched all the muscles that would. A small content sigh blew into the wind as green eyes danced around the outside. Voices from the back drifted to sensitive hearing. They were muffled enough for one to not hear what they were saying just knowing they are talking. Smiling ever more Kita walked to the end of the porch and began to day dream slightly.

Kallistiae

[Vicious Trinity]

Kallistiae

"Negotiations are worthless. The easy way is the best way. Threatening someone's life happens to be that singular path. But you are right. Sometimes, people either cannot die or they are very hard to convince. Often, their death is not what I want."

Trinity wanted to stay on top of her out of sheer annoyance, but she got off her in little time and stepped back.

"Do you understand now? That is why I like you. You can do what I will not. It is not that I do not see the value in sympathizing with people. I just rather not do it. But what if I could have someone I trust speak for me. That thought is what led me to you."