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He was hoping that she would be there by the time he arrived at the meeting place… but what was he to expect, those humans, they just could not help but take there time. Looking around, walking painfully slow, having to inspect every inch of this strange new land they had suddenly appeared in.
Qwert could not help a whine chuckle as he imagined a faceless human wandering about, completely lost, with its mouth hanging open.
But the thought only amused him for a short while, before he was back to waiting.

He had pulled his human in at the north outskirts of Operis, and had planned to ambush her as she entered the city. A whole grand introduction, a couple of laughs, perhaps some pranks. Who knew, maybe she was over her idiotic fear of laugher; they could have a grand time finding things to amuse them. Though, He certainly did not get his hopes up.

He heaved a heavily sigh, body hunched, tail sprawled out behind him. waiting was certainly not one of his more enjoyable activities, especially waiting for something he didn’t exactly care for.

Intent on not being caught with his back to something unpleasant, the beast pulled quickly to his feet, bounding forward and taking three long strides around, leaping up and latched himself to the side of a crumbling building. Twisting his head awkwardly around to try and spot the source of the Irritating screeching.

As it stopped, another noise arose in its absence... One that… well that Qwert would really not have expected. A feeble, weak and probably very, very aged voice.
Qwert responded, with a round of powerful laughs.
“Oh liven up old man,” he barked as his laugher died down, continuing only in small snickers. He attempted to locate the others position, but not being able to make out much at all.
“Though for you I don’t expect any miracles BAAAHAHAAAHAA”

Qwert just watched the old creature, with an amused glint in his dark eye.
He was irked by this stubborn old comically inept pile of scrap metal.
Releasing the hold he had on the building, he kicked off of it. Hooves and nails screaming against the metal of a lamp post as he caught it, and situated himself awkwardly on its long neck, branched tails hanging lazy behind him.

Now back in front of the old creature, he opened his mouth wide, in a mock smile, streams of saliva still clinging to his teeth breaking only when they where stretched to thin to hand on any longer. “AAHAA” he barked, snapping his jaws shut again and staring almost annoyed at the old man.
“So then what have you done that’s so worth while?” he asked,

Ears flattened back against the ungodly noise he made, Qwert’s muzzle wrinkled at the old man’s words. Though he could not find anything but the truth in what the metal nightmare said, apart from the man’s apparent disapproval for Qwert’s laugher. Qwert realized it was something that was not really worth fighting over. Poor deluded old beast, probably never laughed in his life.
“ahg, fine old man, you win”
Chin drawing in closer to his board chest he smoothed his muzzle out and presented the old Nightmare with a toothy grin.
“Can’t say much about your teeth though” he chuckled.
Tails flicking in amusement. “And learn to laugh it up a little. What good’s life if you can’t make fun of it” his grin died a little as his ears fanned forward. Softly cackling he dropped his head down below his body, looking back as the shadow of a tentative moving figure slowly formed in the dark distance. So she was finally here.
Shifting his head up just slight she smirked at the old man. “Give me a laugh old man.” He said slipping forward and landing roughing on the pavement in front of the metal nightmare, careful to keep his distance. “I wanna hear it is as creaky as the rest of you haa haa”

Qwert just sat, staring amused at the old man, a small chuckle starting in his chest, letting him ramble on like old fools obviously needed to. Slowly building up his snigger till the demon’s jaws where gaped open, laughing hysterically at the nightmares’ slowly retreating back.
Hands scooping up fist full of small rocks, he pelted them forward causing them to bounce off the old nightmares, back, head and metal body, this of course only caused Qwert to laugh even harder, screams emitting from his voice, as if this level of laughter pained him, though his expression showed no sign of Agony.
“Old fool”
He said though his laughs. Then turned to face the figure, that had long since stopped her advance. And seemed to be hunched over.
“ohhh good, didn’t frighten her away so soon.” He snickered “don’t wanna waist when little time I have trying to track her down again”
He turned back to the old man, smirking cruelly. Then with out a word, leaped up into the second story of a broken window and took off.

(Arrival of Ambur coming next)

This place was foreign to her; she had no idea, how she had gotten there, or why. She didn’t even know what to call the place, from what she could tell, the murky darkness made it hard to see any details or objects that where not within six feet of her. but there was, occasional, very dim glow in the distance, drawing her rather unwillingly towards it.

At first, she had dismissed this strange event as a dream, for what else could it be. But… she had to admit, she had never had a dream quite like this before. It was… different, there was so much to see, and in a constant detailed way, as she slowly passed then she could make out each chip of crumbled stone, laying on a cracked and littered concrete ground. She could feel the texture underneath her feet, and the cold.
Giving a small shudder she folded her arms in attempts to protect her chest from the chill.
But probably the most confusing thing about this Dream, if that what it was… was that she could think perfectly clear. Usually, when she decided something was a dream, she would wake up, or just feel herself sleeping, but that didn’t happen this time.

She grew frightened, the need to understand why this was happening continuing to more her feet forward. Soon she came upon something new. An enormous shadow loomed in from the darkness, tall, and solid, soon more joined it, then more, then more. All unmoving, with out life. Lights flickering feebly against the dark, but just enough to complete the image in her mind
“A city” she uttered under her breath.
A very sad excuse for a city, a dieing city… or more like a dead city, but at one point it must have been a bustling productive aria.
She could not see anything, and though she could not hear anything, she knew that there was still life in there, and something told her she didn’t really want to meet the inhabitance.
Before she could make up her mind to leave however, sounds, not belonging to her rose up slowly in the air, bouncing off the one great buildings, and filling the aria with its haunting and to her, terrifying sound.
Laughing. Someone was laughing.

Head pounding very quickly she let out a pathetic gasp, and staggered backwards, head turning desperately to try and find the source. Who was laughing? Who? Make it stop!
Clasping her hands desperately over her ears, muffling the sound, but she still knew it was there, she could feel it touching her body, and the echoes of it continued to bounce around in her head. Make it STOP!!

Not even letting out a scream, her mouth clasped tightly shut, she flinched and launched herself backwards, staggering away from the beast. Her heart was beating so far it hurt; quite obviously it was this creature that was laughing before, but even if it wasn’t. She did not want to stick around to figure out what I could do.
Hands still over her ears. Ambur turned, and bolted as fast as she could from the beast, and the city. She had to find her way home, but how? She had no idea how she had even gotten here; she was supposed to be sleeping!
She didn’t get far however, something dark, with a lot of mass streaked by her, an unknown object clogging her painfully on the back of her head, causing her to stumble and trip, landing heavily and painfully to the ground, hands not daring to remove themselves from her ears, as she could hear more laughing picking up above her.
She curled up, nails digging into the side of her head to distract her
“STOOOP!” she shrieked.