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Dinner had been quite interesting. It wasn’t every day that one dined in at a traditional Korean restaurant with a teacher who was several years younger than you but also a compatriot of a secret war that was plaguing their fair city. The food had been quite good, better than anything she could make…. Fast food would have been better than what she could make in all fairness. The company had been amusing and entertaining, and ordering in another language had been challenging. Overall it was something she wanted to do again sooner rather than later, work providing. Sadly work had picked up and without the extra help that she normally had, it had fallen all on her shoulders. It cut into what little social life she had but it also greatly hindered patrolling or even training. It was quite frustrating to be honest because there was still quite a debt owed to the negaverse for the damage done to her store… a few dusted youmas barely put a dent in the bill she was determined to make chaos pay up in full.

Jessie hopped on one foot as she struggled to get her shoe tied, it was one thing to go barefoot at home but it was still rather odd for her to do so at a restaurant, but soon joined Seung at the door. “I feel like it should be the other way around, after all you're the one who paid for dinner.” Against her objections of course which just meant that she would have to figure out another way to balance out dinner. Perhaps there were more books that Seung was looking for that she could dig up for him, it's how she tended to even out the Korean lessens when the English ones didn’t quite add up in her head.

“Sadly Daylight Savings won't kick in until November 5th. It always throws me off to look outside this early and it be so dark.” She sighed and slipped on her jacket and stepped outside. The fall nights had finally started to cool and were now downright nippy. “Did you know that while Germany and Austria were the first countries to use DST in 1916, a few hundred Canadians did it firsts 8 years before them. In 1908, the residents in a town in Ontario did it first, quickly followed by several other cities.” She paused in her fact giving moment to warm her hands with her breath before quickly zipping up her coat and continuing. “However, the idea did not catch on globally until Germany introduced it in 1916. Clocks in Germany and Austria were turned ahead by 1 hour 2 years into World War I to minimize the use of artificial lighting to save fuel for the war effort. Most countries that followed suite discontinued it's use after the war only to pick it up again with the second World War.”


((Fun Facts about DST))

“Really?” Jessie was quite shocked that DST wasn’t standard in Korea. That was most definitely something she would have to research. Honestly she hadn’t known about the odd little facts regarding the time shift until a few months ago when she wanted to use it as a base for the random fact typed game that she played at her shop. She had been expecting it to be simple like when did it start but after finding out about the various dates and all the odd little notes that came along with actually implemented Daylight Savings time Jessie decided to go with a much simpler question: What was the full name of C. S. Lewis… Clive Staples Lewis. And now there was another little thing to find out about! Why did Korea, or at least South Korea, not have or use it? Jessie practically itched to get home to her books and research the answer. It was bound to be interesting!

“I might be wrong about this but the general thought process as to why it has really taken on in our modern society is rather simple.” Jessie easily kept pace with Seung and even took his offered hand. She was completely oblivious how strange it would seem here in the ‘western world’ for a grown female to walk down the street with a grown male. Most would see it as a sexual thing, as if they were dating, however for her it was as simple as he offered and her hand was cold. She completely missed any looks they received from passersby as she continued her lecture on the subject of Daylight Savings. She had easily transitioned into water clocks and other types of ancient time keepers, she had picked the information up when she stumbled upon it during the earlier research, only to drift off when she heard a rather familiar squeak coming from the darkness above them.

Mentally hoping she wasn’t going to see what she feared to see the brown haired bookworm glanced up and promptly cursed, “******** it!” It was one of those giant bats that had swarmed the fall faire last year! They were a real pain in the a** and Jessie feared that this one would be just as bad as the army from the previous year. “Seung… You need to back away slowly and get out of here while I keep this bugger’s attention.” She was the older one of the duo, she would handle the flying rat that even now looked like it was preparing to attack. Sadly she didn’t have a purse like she did last year. She would have to take care of the giant b*****d by hand.

With a slight shake of her head, her eyes never leaving the bat as it swooped around, and pulling her hand away from Seung’s insistent tugging. “We can’t run. If it’s like the bats from last year we can’t run.” At best case they would be followed and attacked, at worst it would fly away and attack someone else. Neither were good. “You're right though… If we can lead it off we can handle it.” s**t! The bat apparently didn’t like its odds against them both and seemed to start to veer off. She couldn’t let it get away.

“Seung search for a place we can lead it!” Jessie barked out the order even as she bent down to scoop up an abandoned water bottle and tossed it at the bat. The crushed plastic soared through the night air and missed the bat. The second and third projectile did the same but the bibliophile wasn’t trying to hit it… well she was but knew her odds weren’t good… but it did piss the little flying rat off. Rather then flying off to search for easier targets it swooped down at her screeching in anger. “Don’t let it bite you!” Jessie did her best to fend the creature off with her jacket clad arm while keeping clear of those sharp fangs. Last year had been bad after she had gotten bitten, she didn’t want a repeat of the situation.

Jessie let Seung lead her, she was rather preoccupied keeping the bat’s attention, and didn’t really care that the younger man had guided her into a side street that was nearly devoid of people. What few civilians remained quickly dispersed when they saw the duo being attacked by the giant flying rat, one even said that they were calling animal control so they just had to hold out until someone more qualified showed up. Ha! As if a simple civil servant would be able to handle a rabid creature such as this. Jessie and Seung were the best to deal with it but the few people who were watching from inside the shelter of the storefronts ment they, the two knights, had to do this without the aid of their alter egos.

“Seung can you-” Her request for some type of weapon was cut off as she hissed in pain. The bat had wickedly sharp claws that was rapidly shreading her coat, the protection nearly useless if the bat’s claws scraping her arm was any indication. “How did these things die last year?!?” Jessie growled in pain and annoyance. At least her wounds weren’t bite marks.

As Seung held the bat at bay with a trashcan lid, expertly smacking the creature into the ground, Jessie disengaged and tossed what remained of her coat away. He was right, she needed to get an honest to god weapon because even with the bitchslap it just got from the lid the bugger was still alive and kicking. With luck it wouldn’t be for long but until then Seung would need help. With a muttered apology she commandeered an abandoned cane that had been left at a outdoor cafe table when its remaining late night patrons took shelter in the cafe at the appearance of the bat, apparently Seung and Jessie weren’t the only ones to remember the bats from last year.

Pissed and angry Jess took her frustration out on the demonic creature. A few whacks with the cane and lid were apparently all it really took because before long the bat was on the ground and it stoped trying to get back up again. “Is it… is it dead?” She huffed out as she took a few steps backwards and leaned on her weapon, it was a bit battered but the wooden cane held up surprisingly well. If the damn thing wasn’t dead at least it wasn’t attacking anymore and just in time too if the rapidly approaching flashing yellow lights were any indication. Honestly, Jessie was a bit surprised that cops weren’t dispatched as well since the creature was, or had been, attacking.

Jessie’s eyes flicked over towards the people and she nearly started when she saw the rather unmistakable figure of someone filming them on their phone. More likely than not the whole fight had been caught on that guy’s phone. ********. She was really, really, glad that they didn’t power up. There would have been no explaining any of that away. “Yeah,” the brunette quietly agreed. It was time they got the hell out of there before Animal Control pulled up and they got roped into the investigation. Scooping up the remains of her jacket and leaving the cane behind Jessie beat a hasty retreat, making sure Seung was following her example.

“That video is going to be online before we get home,” She said once they were several blocks away and it looked like they were in the clear. “If we are lucky it will be jerky and out of focus, if we aren't…” She trailed off with a shrug. If their faces were seen and anyone figured out who they were, well getting questioned by the cops might just be the best scenario to look forward to in that situation. Thank god glamors protected them while knights even if it wasn’t useful in this situation. As the adrenalin drained out of her Jessie finally felt the chill of the night. She was dressed for fall but with her coat in a trashcan a few blocks back there wasn’t much to help with the bite of the cold that nipped at their heels. “What do you saw we splurge and get a cab? We would also avoid any further ‘incidents’. Knock on wood.” Jess wasn’t superstitious really but she wasn’t willing to take a chance that some other nuisance wouldn’t happen. Right then she just wanted to go home, take a hot shower, tend her wounds, and sleep for as long as possible. The sooner, the better and a cab would definitely make it happen sooner.