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 Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:57 pm
Jerry stared at Sasha in horror, his face going pale, this moment of startlement only cut short by a fresh sneeze he caught in a tissue. "C-cut it?? But... but you've got such lovely hair! How... how short?? And...a nd I'm sure there's something around here. I d-don't know if I'd trust any body of water we find, though... aren't there ah... leeches and things in the amazon?" He looked positively terrified.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:57 pm
"Good luck," she said, agreeing with going their separate ways after their trade. Now, she thought, to find Aleister or Wilson, or Sasha--although there was a good chance Sasha was spending time with Jerry.
Or perhaps she would find someplace to try and get a nap. A nap sounded wonderful--and her clothing was starting to cling to her in a far too intimate manner, she thought, trying not to squirm.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:59 pm
"You're so not s - " Jordan stopped mid-word as he registered what he was looking at on Clerise's phone, and blushed. He could blame it on the tropical heat, right? "You took a picture?" He'd had no idea anyone had noticed the sleeping arrangements.
As she explained, he darted a surprised look at her. She'd talked Rep down? After he'd fled the tent in the Sahara, Jordan assumed. "Guess I owe you a thank-you," he said quietly.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:03 pm
Ami continued to aimlessly stare at Wilson, until he noticed her staring and started waving. She gave him an angry glare- angry because he was embarrassing her. Her attentions snapped back to Harrison, as if to say "so there."
Of course, that wasn't a very good idea either, because Harrison was leaning closer to her, preparing to whisper something in her ear. Ami's hands instantly went up to push his chest back lightly. She just wasn't comfortable with men, even now.
Once she figured out he wasn't trying to make a move, Ami relaxed a bit, but still nothing remarkably comfortable. Deus Ex Machina, huh? Easy enough to remember. She could handle that. "Uhhh thanks. For that,"" she said somewhat brusquely. She really was thankful, just not good at expressing it.
Her eyes caught a set of daggers near a girl with long black hair. Well hello there daggers! The girl looked nice enough. She could probably bargain off this pendant for it- maybe not the FEAR scanner, that might be harder, but the pendant? Easy enough.
She looked back at Harrison and said, "Yeah. I'm going over there now."
Without even waiting for his response, she marched right over to the black haired girl and tapped her arm lightly. She then said, "Excuse me there- would you trade your daggers for this pendant thing?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:04 pm
"Duh," she said, giving Jordan a completely incredulous look. "Wouldn't you? That's two of you I can make squirm with no work at all." She gave him a little knowing smile, and a small nudge on the shoulder.
Her brows soar upwards as he thanks her. Things must have gone better than anticipated, then. "Well." Clerise looks thoughtful. "I think he deserves some happiness," as all she lets Jordan know, equally quiet, giving Rep a long look from afar.
She jabbed his chest, a little harder than necessary. "Don't break my brother. He's brand new and shiny, yeah?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:08 pm
There was a lot of chatter. Strange... strange chatter. It was around the time that talk of tropical STDs stopped that Otto tried to block it out entirely.
They were gonna be like this all day?
Hopefully not over the communicator he got.
He stared at it with worry.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:12 pm
Ami glared back and Wilson frowned, confused. Had he done something wrong? Cue more confusion as Feng ducked his head. ?_? Huh? He would have mulled this over if Feng hadn’t asked him how to work the communicator. Wilson stared at the device. To be honest, he had yet to personally use one, but how complicated to use could it be? “Umm. I’m not sure, but it doesn’t look complicated at least.” He reached out to take it from Feng and eyed the buttons. Wilson felt tempted to fiddle with the contraption, but wasn’t sure if he would somehow break it or not. He decided to give it back to Feng for now. “I’m sure Caelius or someone else will explain how to use it eventually.”
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:12 pm
As Syd wandered off, Rep wandered back to where he'd been loitering before, crossing his arms irritably and looking peevishly over at Clerise and Jordan. It probably could have gone worse. Probably. He couldn't quite think HOW at the moment but it ******** could have.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:15 pm
"I guess I have to concede that point," Jordan admitted. He nudged back. "Was that a picture of you and Clarice I saw before personal embarrassment time?"
"Yeah," he agreed quietly. "I think so too. We'll take care of him." He smiled, more a genuine smile than a smirk this time, and flicked the pendant he wore with a finger. "Family's important."
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:18 pm
"It just gets in the way," Sasha mumbled, blushing slightly when he mentioned her hair. "I was thinking like.. I-I don't know. Short. Like.. maybe like Candace or Clerise?" She shrugged her shoulders as she peered over at an approaching young lady with long hair of her own.
"Trade my daggers? I mean.. yes! If y-you can use them more than I.. I would be happy to." She held her daggers aloft, smiling at the other trainee. "I'm Sasha, by the way. This is Jerry. We were j-just talking about ahh.. hair." Sasha held up a chunk of hair, gesturing at the length. "It's just a pain somethings, you k-know?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:18 pm
"Just let me know if you forget." Harrison gave her a thumbs up. Stay safe, buddy up, use your pendant. Good talk.
He picked his pendant off the ground again. He couldn't really imagine a scenario where he would use it. Being tortured to death. Flayed alive. Chopped into a million pieces. Shoved off a cliff. All of these were preferable to...to...ugh he could feel himself seizing up just thinking about it. Still it was Deus property and they'd probably get on him if he didn't return it. Maybe. He looked over at the table.
...No that was a terrible idea.
He just put it back in his pocket.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:25 pm
Ami didn't bother beating around the bush. She swiped the daggers out of the girl's hand, and held up the pendant for the girl to take. Yesss. These daggers just felt right in her hands. She was so much more confident with a pair of shield daggers than she was with some pendant that she didn't understand.
"Would this be okay to trade?" she said, not bothering to mention that she had a FEAR scanner to trade as well. "You know what, don't answer that. Just take it." She really didn't want this thing.
With the introductions, she said, "I'm Amalie Raine- Ami is fine." She calmly set the daggers so they rested on the pockets of her jacket.
Ami expected to just leave it at that and go back to talking with Marcus and Harrison, but Sasha said something that caught her attention. "I know what you mean," she said, gesturing to her own hair, "I braid mine up though, so it doesn't get in the way. Why- is something wrong with your hair?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:29 pm
The mention of Clarice brightened the redhead's whole face. God, she owed her so, so much. "Yep! Miss lady is the best." Her feelings for the other woman were conflicting at best, so she settled for what she knew she could have: friend. And a good one, at that.
The we only confirmed what she had suggested to Rep. "It never was for me. Things change, I guess." She remembered Jordan's discussion with her about family, so long ago and under the sea.
It seemed a million miles away, now. "I'll just tell you now," Clerise said, pocketing her phone, "things are weird at first. And balancing is hard. Was for me and mine, anyway." She reminisced on a sweet smile and bright eyes, on Serbian whispered into an ear, of breakfast in the morning, of relations that were slow and luxurious and anything but sweet.
The memories of those days didn't make her sad, not anymore. Just warm and fond and far-away.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:32 pm
"I hope so," Feng frowned, taking the communicator back. He usually got things pretty quickly once they were explained to him, but he wasn't so hot when it came to figuring things out on his own. He supposed he could find someone else who knew how to use them later, though. There was bound to be someone around who could figure everything out.
"Do you think this is going to be worse than the tentacles and all that ice?" He was genuinely concerned. He'd barely made it out of that.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:33 pm
Jerry flushed a bit as his brain granted him a mental image of Sasha with Candace's hair, followed by Clerise's and then his brain shut down to a tune of Roar's chuckles. "Ah- y-yes! Um! Hair! Ah... Hi, I'm Jerry Collins, Sun Intermediate," He juggled his pack of tissues to give his new friend a red-nosed, broken-glasses smile, offering a hand out to shake. "I would ah... braid mine but! Ahahahahaha," Oh god he sounded like such an idiot. "Sasha here forgot to pack a hairbrush, apparently," He smiled, "You wouldn't have pa- aaaah- AAH-" He turned away just in time for a fresh sneeze.
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