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 Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:08 pm
It had been a few days since jumping the blonde in the alley and getting her a** beaten as a reward. She was covered with bruises but that was nothing new, and thankfully her leg had stopped limping. That had been awkward.
And well, it took more than that to keep her down for a long time.
She was actually patrolling with someone else from the get-go tonight, with another of her team, even. They'd met up rather by chance and decided they might as well stick together and dust whatever was trying to cause trouble tonight.
That and, that accent. Hesperis could probably spend hours just listening to Annwn talk and not get sick of it. He might as well have been reciting the phone book and she would probably find it hot.
She was an accent girl, really.
"Well..." She pointed at the rubble along the ground, as well as the pawprints along the dirt area of the park. "I think there's a nasty nearby..."
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:10 pm
"...Or a very large dog." He said, he was kind of teasing, but that was in part because she was so young. He supposed that was what Camelot meant about being so surprised at his own age. "Normally I would say ladies first but... I think perhaps that's NOT the chivalrous thing to do in tis kind of situation." He flashed her a grin, the accent not quite as pronounced when he was calmer.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:27 pm
"That's be one hell of a mutant dog you'd have there. An." She said with a pout. It made her look adorable, and Hesperis hated it, but sometimes she did it without really thinking about it.
"Hn." She paused a moment. "Can't feel it... Can you ? Might have gotten ahead of us."
Hopefully it hadn't sunk it's teeth into anyone, really. "If you do the dusting blow, I'll pay you a coffee or something." She said, with her own grin.
Hey, nothing wrong with some friendly competition, right ?
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:08 pm
"Aye...then I'll buy the next slushy if yeh do the killing blow." He flashed a grin that creased the scar over his nose and down his cheek. He reached and rubbed at it, it seemed an gesture that was ingrained not thought about.
"Though I can not feel it either... follow the feet one supposes eh?" He set off keeping an eye on the tracks in so much as they could be found, other things like rubble made it something less than a challenge, but it was still a hunt, and somehow he found that perhaps more thrilling than a sane-er man might have. He was willing to bet all artists were just a bit crazy though so all was well with that.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:18 pm
"It's a bet, then."
She might have paused to brofist him, but well, they had a youma on the loose. The two pages set off to follow the trail - both of feet and destruction - until Hesperis' page-sense finally flared up.
"Got it ! Overrrr... Here ! Let's go !"
And so she charged, just as crazy oblivious as ever. Well, she doubted a youma would be smart enough to buckle her leg, really.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:30 pm
"Are you all nutters here or is it just those of us in uniform?" He called after her and charged hot on her heels, long legs at least made it easy to keep up and he did more than enough walking activities to know how to pace himself.
He pulled free his antler for all the good it did him as he charged in, but all the same, he was starting to wish he'd been granted that half a brick as a first weapon...damned things were hard to come by.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:43 pm
"We're all mad here, don't you know ?"
Well, Alice in Wonderland quotations aside, there was their youma. It looked like a panther and an hedgehog had a baby - large black cat with spikes all over.
Whoever came up with these was probably madder than anyone else, really. The youma seemed to have felt them coming, and welcomed the pair with a snarl.
Definitively not friendly.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 3:45 pm
"Ah... I should have known I was following the Cheshire cat! I think though that we found the jabberwocky.... `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe!"
The odd poem tripped nicely over his accent. "E're Jabberwock! You are a bit of the way out of tulgey wood!"
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 3:53 pm
"...Do you seriously have that memorized ?"
If so, damn. Impressive. She'd read Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass - when Erika wasn't looking, no use destroying what little reputation she had - but knowing that by heart ?
Damn. And GOD, THAT ACCENT.
Through, there was more to do than just mentally perving all over the probably unsuspecting page of earth.
Her staff materialized, and she rushed for it. "While we're at it... Of with it's head !"
Obvious, really.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:36 pm
"But y'er wearing BLUE!" He said sounding scandalized and laughed. "Damn but I wish I had a bloody staff..." He cursed and shook his head but rushed after her, what else had they to do?
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:45 pm
"Sorry, my other uniform's in the wash." The staff was brought down against the youma's back, hoping to invalidate it a little bit. It snarled and the spikes extended a bit, through thankfully it didn't look like it could shoot them.
After the snake incident, through, Hesperis didn't want to know what these might do if they ended up piercing skin.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:58 pm
Annwn for his part aimed a boot for the nose of the creature, probably a better option than trying to smack it with his antler at any rate. "Back you beastie...time for you to take a nap yeah?"
"How is it that I get ruddy antlers and yeh get a nice sick? I think I would like to talk to whoever is in charge of assigning this all."
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:13 pm
"It's probably fate's compensation for making me the youngest of the bunch." Everyone was papa bear-ing her. It was driving her a little crazy, in a way. "Honestly I'd take the antlers for a few years of age tacked up."
Wouldn't that be nice ? Out of St-Mags... Seemed like paradise, really.
Hesperis whirled back, sending her staff crashing down again. The youma lashed out toward her with a large paw, claws extended, but she was able to avoid it.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:18 pm
"Aye well, pop over the puddle eh? Then y'er legal when y'er 18 eh? Not that it did that little man who played Harry Potter a world of good eh?...Er... not that I follow all that mind you." He said in a way that made it rather clear that he DID follow.
He Lifted his boot again and tried to drive the swiping paw into the pavement resulting in a wildcat snarl as bones, or what passed for them made greenwood snapping sounds.
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Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:30 pm
"I don't really care about being legal, I just want to be out of high school ! It sucks soooo much."
Of course she'd say that. A teen who liked school was... pretty rare, really.
Liked Harry Potter, uh ? She filled that, just in case she could tease him about it later. She'd read the book at the school's library but never saw the movies. Certainly couldn't afford such a thing.
"Nice hit !" Damn nice, too. It was all too easy to hit the youma while it was down, and from the sound of it her last hit popped it's leg out of it's socket.
There wasn't much left in it, made obvious by how the beast was lashing out wildly and blindly, but who would get the killing blow ?
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