Welcome to Gaia! ::

"I wouldn't dream of it. I mean, if I leant them information that let them rout a haven and gain the upper hand then they would have no reason to keep me around or pay my exhorbitant fees now would they? I'd be back to dodging bullets and living out of a suitcase." He said with a rueful chuckle. It was good to know she hadn't forgotten the realities of the situation so quickly, although he had rather gotten to hoping that he himself could.

He walked up alongside her just out of arms reach, more out of respect than actual concern. He slid his hands into his pockets, slowly sculpting them back to their proper form as his flesh deposited the barbs and blades that he had folded into it into his pockets. He wasn't going to kill anyone on his first visit if he could help it and didn't want to do it by accident. Despite Nika's assurances he was quite certain that he'd be the target of a few unpleasant looks to say the least. She knew this, he could be certain of that. Her bearing hadn't necessarily been friendly right off the bat. What her motivation was for pulling him into a bar fight was he couldn't say.

He let his shoulders fall a little bit, relaxing. Whatever her reasons she wasn't going to get him killed tonight. Maybe it was on business, a new offer, or just knowing the places security well enough, but whatever it was he didn't smell a trap just yet. "Lead on m'lady"

Ordanni took the hind and pulled out several handfuls of blades and such which he had just carefully removed from his flesh. He laid the odd assortment on the table before pulling the two sawed off silver sulfide shotguns from their holsters under his jacket and gave an embarassed look towards Nika. It wasn't often that he laid all his weapons out and the variety was a little unnerving even to him. Some of them had simply dwelt inside his body so long that he had almost forgotten they were there.

An odd, naked feeling enwrapped him as he went to take the suit. Walking completely unarmed into unfamiliar territory with a woman that he hardly knew anything about. He hadn't felt this nervous for years. Absolute confidence was far from the feeling he felt at the moment. He had a viscious craving for a stiff drink as he walked over to where Nika was standing.

Despite his nerves, he couldn't help noticing Nika's pleasantly accentuated figure in the light. Back when they had met in the alleyway he hadn't taken the time to really look at her as anything other than a potential combatant and as his eyes traced over her quickly now he couldn't help the smile that crept into the corners of his mouth. Perhaps he could draw her attentions away from pressing realities for a night if his luck kept up.

Ordanni followed Shireen across the floor, tensing up slightly as he sensed the eyes following him. They knew his face, his history from talk on the street. The entire corner smelled of barely contained hatred and booze, like a black ooze, seeping out from their little corner of the place. He did his aboslute best to keep all tension from his body, knowing that they would sense it immediately and maybe even take it as an excuse to circumvent Nika's word.

The good news was that none of them were openly violent just yet. It seemed that Nika had an uncanny sway over the lycans in this place. Perhaps it was just the heavily muscled guards, but by the intensity of the scents around him, he didn't think that would be nearly enough to hold back the collective tempers in the room. At least Shireen seemed neutral enough about it him being here, she would back up Nika if things got dicey and he was fairly sure that Nika would be on his side if it came down to it.

"In you go darling, don't keep Nika waiting too long. She obviously has her reasons for bringing you here and it'd be best not to keep your benefactor waiting." Shireen said, her tone shifting to near metallic, before turning promptly to rejoin Nika. Ordanni gave her a wary glance as she retreated and then ducked into the bathroom.

Sensing one or two hostile sets of eyes immediately lock onto him as he stepped into the room, Ordanni quickly located a stall and changed out of his clothes. Despite the uncomfortable atmosphere generated by the place's patrons slipping into the new clothes was a relief, like a layer of filth had simply sloughed off his body. He adjusted the pants with a grimace as he walked out. They were a little tighter than would have liked, a little less practial a little more showy. However, as he was in no position to do anything about it, he simply shrugged on the coat and did up his shirt about halfway before exiting, only pausing breifly to check himself in the mirror and straighten his hair.

He re-entered the room and scanned the room Nika, noting, much to his relief, that most of the eyes had shifted back onto the scantily clad women in the corner instead of following him about the place. "Well, at least I don't have to worry about regrowing yet another limb tonight."

"Not exactly. Lashing your individual tendons back together isn't something you like to relive. Just rather pass over the whole thing if you know what I mean." He said, making a futile attempt at flagging down the bartender who firmly ignored his requests for a drink. He sighed and collapsed into a chair beside her.

"So, why are we here anyway. I mean, I may just be paranoid but it occurs to me that you wouldn't have brought me here just on a whim. There must be something going on behind those big, dark eyes of yours." He said, reaching inside his old coat and pulling out a silver decanter and taking a sip of it's contents. He fixed her with a serious gaze over the table, his lips curling into an easy smile in counter to the serious cast of the rest of his face.

"If I were to tell you that the lycan body is capable of so much more than you can imagine. To defy the laws of natures other creatures to a point where you doubt that they exist any longer. Would you say that I'm crazy? I mean you've seen a little bit of what is possible but that is, as I said, merely a parlor trick in comparison to what some of the older masters could do." He said, gauging her expression. She might have enough detatchment from her natural form to learn a few tricks. She knew a great deal that he didn't about the underground organization of the lycans and he needed to find out how to talk to the leaders again, find out how much they're willing to pay. He didn't know how else to find out at this point.

((Bump? 0.o ))

((Just a side note, Marius actually has been banned from Gaia (by his parents) for a while, so I dunno when he'll be back. Just thought I'd let you know))

(( do i need to post at all o.o ))