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Ryu looked at her sommat funny, but replied "yes. Born there, but not Asian. Moved for Vati job."((She was reading a book and the name Vati cracked her up so much she started using it. It's short for Vater, or father. I think I'm spelling it right.))

((since I have WB that is killing my head off, I think I'll do a behind the scenes. This is what happens after I videotaped the post and showed it to Ryu.
Ryu:...
Clara:I know what you're thinking.
Ryu:Yea, that you're a stalker. It's from behind!
Clara:Only some of it.
Ryu:My hair looks like I put hair gel in it. It's like, flouncing out everywhere.
Clara:.....
Ryu:Ha, I own.
Clara:SHUT UP I'M AWESOME!!! DX))

(It's her style of play. We've discussed certain things in pm's. Don't bust her chops. I'd hardly call her forcing a helo from me God Modeing.)

Fiasco watched as Khyn walked faster at his approach. She moved farther from the road. He sidled the car next to her, parked and got out. "Hey Khyn!" He said, almost shouting to be heard over the rumble of the engine. He waited for her shock to turn into recognition before he continued. "You look a little lost. Need a lift?" He let his question hang in the air before he stuck his head into the car. "Cat, back seat." He motioned with his head. The Cat stared at him for but a moment, then jumbed into the back seat. Fiasco removed his head from the car to return his attention to Khyn. "Seriously though, it's unearthly not safe to be alone right now." He stood there, waiting for her reply.

Khyn shoulders slightly slumped in relief in recognition of the boy. Her face was impassive and unreadable though. She gazed at him a moment as she considered his offer and finally nodded. The wind continued to hit her as if it were singling her out. She walked towards his car quickly.

"Thanks... I missed the bus." God, that sounded lame even to her. She opened the car door before he could make his way around to do it for her, and then climbed into the passenger seat. Man, was she glad to get out of the chill wind. A pale hand that was still shaking slightly from the fear she'd felt just moments before reached over to turn the heater up on low. As Fiasco got in the car, she turned to look at him closer. Did he look a lil more beat up to her? One shoulder seemed to slump more than the other. She tilted her head slightly.

"That's an odd way to put it.... Unearthly not safe." She quoted him. Her eyebrows furrowed in question.

"They travel in groups. Never alone. Never easy." A small smile flashed across Ryu's face as she realized she had used her small vocabulary, yet seemed as if it was smooth. Er, um...was that bad grammar? Oh well. "We can try run...fight if they follow. Come!" Ryu grabbed Traci's hand and dashed like mad toward the light. It hadn't really occurred to her until now that Traci was a decent person, and probably didn't know how to fight. Now she realized that the situation was quite the opposite, and she shouldn't scar this girl for life.
A sharp pain rang through her shoulder and something sliced through it, a dark red stain forming on the rim of the new tear on her shirt. A kunai was stabbed into the wall in front of them. She winced, dropped her open hand on it and moved on.

Ryu ran like mad, her pain spurring her on as she realized the lights were a car. She ran straight into the headlights with her arms out to her sides. "TOMAGARE*!" She was breathing hard, then put her hands on the front trunk(whatever it's called...the roof?), leaning over it. It was quite obvious she was wounded, as the shoulder blood had gotten all over herself.


((*Tomagare=stop))

Fiasco, having been robbed of his opportunity to open Khyn's door, shrugged and dropped into the car out of the surprising cold. "The bus isn't the only thing you missed." He watched silently as she adjusted the heat in his car. He gave sleight hope that she wouldn't notice the new bloodstains he aquired across the dash sinch this afternoon. Fiasco waited for her to get settled in before speaking. "Don't mind the cat." He put the car into drive and pushed the gas down only to slam on the breaks as two girls nearly jumped onto his hood. "Son of a... What the hell?!" At this, the cat leaped onto the center console.

"Their being chased by mind slaves." The cat said aloud. "It's in your best interests to unlock the doors."

Fiasco, after clearing surprise from his expression began rolling down the window. "Seeing as I recognize one of them I'll thank you to give me orders another time, Cat." He stuck his head out the window. "In or out ladies?"

Traci stared for a few seconds at the talking cat, utterly bewildered. But Ryu's words brought her back to her senses.

"Yeah," she agreed quickly, pulling the girl with her into the car, not waiting for Fiasco's affirmation of his offer. "Sorry about all this," she added quickly, slamming the door shut, and letting her breath out in one big whoosh.

Ryu stared at the bloodstains in the car that most would miss. Her voice was cool, as if she didn't care she had just been saved by the person she was now half-insulting. "Well, looks like I'm not the first in line." She was mentioning her shoulder in a half-around way, so that Khyn and Traci wouldn't really notice, if they hadn't already. She was the kind of person who could insult someone with a caring reason behind it. Oh well. No one really cared about her anyway. It was like Sakura had said; she was like a broken doll. Thrown away, with only memories of being loved.