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 Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:25 pm
Aster had stashed herself off to one side, leaving the 'orange jerky' to sit in her glass of water in the meantime (which would maybe fix how dry it was) while she chewed on the jerky and pouted more. Food was food, but really she wasn't feeling too hungry, so perhaps the 'little' meal would be fine for now...
while Shim could sit there and try and steal people's stuff away for himself. Whatever, they could probably replace some of this stuff easily enough.Maybe.
Possibly. Who knew, it was pretty common materials, she guessed. Or rather knew, but stillllllll. Nyer.
Kanda had practically shoo'd Shim away when he'd come over to try and get one of the golems, Ako chirping and clicking in protest before whirring at his 'brother'. Though Ako did chirp MORE when the sudden noise kicked in, causing Ako to flitter about anxiously and ultimately go hiding somehwere in Jade's coat.
Jade didn't seem to mind it in the least.
Kanda's EARS did, flattening against his head at the noise. Boo! That was loud! Geeeezeeeee! jfasdfl;. However, the 'small' meal was perfect in Kanda's mind, given he hadn't eaten when Zeane had cooked for them and it was just small enough to not be too much.
"How much longer is this trip going to be?"
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:45 pm
Honestly, if Shae had possessed any greater scrap of courage in her, she would've spoken up about Sir's peckish lack of appetite... but in turn, the sight of his grimly bare plate just made her all the less motivated to fill her own, and thus, neither would go to sleep that night with a genuinely full stomach. Listlessly, the female stared down at her plate, not even glancing up when Del whirred off after its brethren and smacked dizzily into Jade's chest.
"... Long enough to lose our sanity and belongings," Yossarian was kind enough to reply for her to that question, too, grumbling over his plate. He appreciated being fed, sure, but he didn't appreciate having to deal with the awful company, or the awful conditions, or the awful... well, the awful everything, really.
Even Aster had become more or an irritation than a comfort over the past few hours, which meant he had quite literally nothing around to make him feel better.
And for the record, the food tasted like sand, cooked extra dry.
That was how it went... and how it kept on going for some time after, too. Still in a distinctly less-than-pleasant mood, the dark swordsman only succumbed to sleep that night when he couldn't keep his eyes open anymore. Even then, it was a stiff, uncomfortable slumber: arms folded tightly across his chest, back stiff and rigid, and features set with a kind of drawn tension that could snap awake at any moment.
... Except that he really WAS too tired to stay awake and wound up falling prey to vandalism during his slumber, stirring hours later to find himself nose to nose with a grinning Shim, who had delightedly giving him "dalmation spots" all over with a foul smelling, vinegar-y dye.
As for Shae, she had never stayed up nor slept, but a little of both, and been productive at neither. Inexplicable nervousness and some inward queasy sensation kept her on razor's edge after sundown, struggling not to jump at every little sound and creak of the wagon and only dozing in minute-long spurts when her body refused to hold the tension any longer, recharging just enough, and snapping awake again.
It was miserable, tense, and draining in every sense of the word-- made worse still by the fact that it seemed to be a repeating anxiety. On the second day of travel, Hanna commented something sly about it, but seemed to have the good sense not to press... especially when she knew there were other eyes observing the behavior, and she had a grumpy, spotty swordsman to muse over.
Travel was long, the Kanus were sickeningly cheerful, the party was exhausted (though thankfully healing; bless mystery elixars), and finally, finally, the gaping, open pass of the Mountain range was in sight.
It earned a howl of glee from Roy, who just barked at the mules to hurry, hurry faster, they were so close!
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:09 pm
Waaaaah! Aster, who had probably been the one to go ENTIRELY without sleep out of some sort of ill-invested paranoia at the Kanus they were in the company of, was definitely the most bleary-eyed of the group when the morning came around, straightening out her back to listen to her vertebrae go "fjasdlfk" back into place. Oh baby, oh baby. Alas, it would be another day of sitting.
Or rather, WAS a good chunk of sitting until they got to
fjdsafl;adsfhdaklfjdlkfhdafl;jadkfhds;lfjaldshfsal;djfkashdf;lsdjfkdlsaj;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!jfkl;asfj!!!!
dsjflas;dfjl;dsajfak;dsfj;!!!!!!!!
Like a cat being chased by a dog, the SECOND they'd hit Chicago, Aster had practically TRIPPED over herself getting out of the wagon and straight up a tree, tail puffed up and literally HISSING down it at the curious fuzzy faces of it's population.
OH MY GOD WHAT ARE THESE THIIIINNNNGGGSSS QAAAAAAQ <<<<<<<<<
Kanda hadn't even given a damn about what it was they were getting in to before Aster SUDDENLY went flying past him and off up to nearest climbable object to freak out. What the
!!!!!<<<<<<
fasdjlf!! WOAH, PERSONAL SPACE, HE WAS BEING SNIFFED, WHAT THE HELL?
"OI OI, PERSONAL SPACE!" he hissed.. but this just caused the Kanus who was particularly curious about him to wag her tail before climbing into the wagon as well. "Oi! I see ya'll brought back a good harvest o' stuff from up north!" the female greeted, earning a beam of pride from Merry.
"Sure did, Jazz!" WAG WAG WAG.
Jade, who had been 'playing' with the Golems, released them back to return back to their prickling 'owners'. "Well, it certainly is lively here!"
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:40 am
... Huh, well apparently Aster was a more adept climber than Yossarian first took her for.
Unfortunately, however, this would-be-curious realization turned from intriguing to downright frustrating in a heartbeat as the woman promptly rocketed not just out from the wagon upon stopping, but up the nearest (and TALLEST) tree in sight. Instantly his inner monologue kicked up in a slew of swearing because, dammit, something in him already knew he'd be the one to get her down again, and it just made his lingering unpleasant feelings all the more... unpleasant.
"Away from me, you tasteless, unpolished nuisances!" he snapped at the first wave to SHOVE themselves in his face, quite literally shoving right back and past them (despite the fact that several terrible curious ones trailed along a few steps behind) to loiter under that tree, tap his foot, SIGH deeply, and look up at her.
Damn it all, Aster... "What are you doing up there?" he tried not to sound angry, really he did... but why him? Why now? Why did she insist on these stupid antics at the WORST moments?
"Huh, right friendly fella', that one!" A stocky, particularly shagging gray and white man barked in amusement at the sight, shrugging it off completely and going about in promptly grabbing Roy for a big manly hug. "Looks like you really did get some odd souvenirs from up north, eh, Roy?"
"Sure did, Lenny!"
"..." So now they were being classied as souvenirs all of a sudden? That just made Shae, who had felt a likewise twinge of inexplicable horror and simply NOT acted on it, feel just that much better, fighting every urge not to shrink back in the wagon's interior as far too many people suddenly shoved in to stare and sniff at them with unsettling grins on their faces.
She was trapped. Trapped like a small anxious cat in a box and surrounded by wild dogs... almost literally.
"L-Lively... is one way to put it..." she actually heard her own voice crack when she responded to that, muscles stiff, and discretely cramming Del in her pocket before scooting a few inches closer to poor only-mostly-healed Kanda.
Suddenly, coming here felt like a very unfortunate and disaster-prone idea.
Of course, there was still one female left in the group and she was handling the dog assault with cheery aplomb.
"Lovely to meet the lot of you!" she announced in a bright, clear tone, instantly drawing no less than ten gazes upon her and not even flinching as she shook hands, offered bags to snuff about, and played the compliant object of interest for any curious soul. Even her bag was given up for them to rifle through, apparently fully confident that, oh yes, she'd be getting the lot of it back.
"What a charming city," she added conversationally with a little flourish and a glance back at Jade... and company, of course. "Coming, everyone? Weather's nice out here, you know!"
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Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:30 am
Nuh uh, not even Yossarian was going to get her down from this tree! While he was trying to come off as 'not angry', she was STILL very aware that her attempts to escape Kanus persecution the day before had caused her to be snapped at... and she wasn't really in the mood to return to that just yet.
Not to mention her tail was so puffed up it was a surprise her fur hadn't popped right out of it.
"I'm staying where I'm safe!" she called back down, practically hugging the trunk of the tree and staring down precariously.. namely at the little hoarde of Kanus who were now looking up at her with a stunned curiousity, their tails wagging madly.
Buuuuuuh!
Jazz, seemingly some sort of a ringleader, finally stepped in to shoo some of her fellow Kanus-companions out of the wagon. "Alright, alright! Let's not smother anybody here! Let's just get everything out and see what they've brought back!"
Which meant.. the Kanus were going to raid their supplies, oh dear.
Ako chirpped and squawked when he was grabbed off of Kanda's shoulder by one of the Kanus (who was quickly threatened, much to their oblivion, with the loss of their hand if they didn't release him. Upon freedom, Ako retreated back to Jade's coat).
Kanda 'nnghed' at it all. Well, this certainly was a lovely bunch, now wasn't it? The Kanus to their Koshka... no wonder the idiot woman had gone up a tree. "Here's hoping they don't steal all of our supplies.."
Jade patted Kanda on the back. "You worry too much. If they do, we'll secure more."
Yeah.. on the funding of his dear ol' dad. However, Jade had already moved on at that point to join Hanna in marvelling at the little makeshift scavenger town (certainly it had real buildings, but it was amazing how many people could be packed into one little town. Just.. wow!).
"This is indeed quite different than what we've got up north!"
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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:02 pm
Yeeeah, now this kind of behavior on her end? This wasn't helping him feel better at all; in fact, Yossarian was just grumbling and groaning to himself all the more (albeit silently to himself), staring up at the surprisingly high body above him and only glancing away with some clumsy LUG of a Kanus needed round TWO of shoving to get the message. Dammit, what was this city's problem?! Had they even heard of personal space?!
"Listen to the wretch woman and leave us be already, you thick-skulled, vexatious abominations!" His last HISS finally seemed to clear out the few lingering mutts who hadn't listened to Jazz, allowing him a moment to smooth his tail and glance back up at the OTHER problem, now thoroughly exasperated and having half a mind to hack the damn tree down with his SWORD to solve things.
"... Aster." Now that was the kind of deadpan tone that begged to be heeded. "Come down. That branch will break if you linger."
Because even if it looked relative sturdy, with her luck, the thing inevitably would and... hell, he just wanted her DOWN PLEASE so they could get on with their longsuffering lives.
And while he was dealing with Aster, Shae was dealing with... everybody else, suddenly MOBBED by a veritable flock (herd? pack? what WAS it, exactly?) of Kanus who leapt in and stripped the wagon interior faster than pirahna in a carcass, nearly having the very SHIRT yanked off her back in the process (and yes, someone did give that a try). Thank God she'd had the forethought to save Del, but...
"Maybe... we should get out with the others, Sir," she finally resigned herself to mutter, knowing she'd regret it, but knowing just as well that there was no better option. His leg was still pretty lame, sure-- but she could only hope the last few (scant) days of drugged tea had helped him heal enough to limp, or hey, if push came to shove... there was always Fabio, right?
Pushing her quiet tensions aside as best she could (even if it didn't smooth her fur down), she slid down and off the wooden floor first, waiting for him as calmly as she could... as no less than three busybodies closed in to curiously tug at her sleeves, and gossip over the funny bare skin she had, and the tail that was just so strange and short.
God, let it be over soon.
"So, Jade--" Hanna called blithely through the chaos, looking back to her dear friend and wicked accompliss. "Where to first? Any destination in mind?"
WELL... after they got Aster down from the tree, that was. Still, the question remained pretty valid; now that they were actually here in foreign country, where'd they go? Was it best to seek shelter first? Go exploring? FIND A TOUR GUIDE?
Choices, choices.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:41 pm
And there was that tone of voice that made Aster wince (which was a bad sign), looking back down the tree at the swordsman who was giving her a look of 'GIT YER FUZZY BUTT BACK DOWN HERE YOUNG LADY', causing her to frown down the tree.
CRACK
adfh;sdfkj!!!!! Aster's tail puffed the hell up at the sound of the branch, has forseen, made a VERY unhappy noise, causing her to immediately scramble down to the next closest branch below it. Whiiiine! D-down? She was screwed between the tree and it's 'GIT OUT OF MY BRANCHES FREAK' and the fajsl;kfjasdklfds;fjdasfjd below. Auugh!
Sure, Yossarian had shooed away a good number of the EBIL EBIL Kanus, but that didn't make Aster clamber down any faster than she was, taking a whole five minutes to peel herself out of the tree.. and even then, most of that was spent on the bottom branches staring out at the Chicago populace and frowning.
Waaaah QAAAQ.
But she DID climb down without having to be 'rescued' or 'coached' down.. but that didn't mean she pulled herself away from the tree.
Waaaaaaaaaahhhh!
Kanda, on the other hand, was all about Shae's suggestion, hobbling awkwardly to his feet when she mentioned 'getting out' of the wagon. Good, he wanted to try and get the circulation back into his butt. Because honestly, he didn't like the feeling that it was going numb.
It was no bueno.
However, outside of standing, walking wasn't going to be happening quite yet, leaving him to place a hand against Fabio's side for support to keep him from faceplanting (though if he had, it would have made Yossarian feel worlds better with a good cackling fit).
"Mmmm~? Well, I think there is certainly a lot of things we could go look into..." Jade said, looking over the city, before Jazz sudden jumped onto the back of the wagon to BLURT out into the crowd; "SO, WHO WANTS TO TAKE CARE OF OUR NEW GUESTS?"
fjaadfkjadfkl;
Woah! Everybody volunteering at once, jas;flk. YEP, THEY WERE POPULAR.
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:00 pm
Ah, poetic justice; there was really nothing else quite like it.
... Not that Yossarian had been wanting that branch to snap beneath Aster's weight or anything (and thankfully it didn't completely), but at least his point had been made, and she, in turn, was finally conceding to her better sensibilities. All that remained on his behalf was idling there silently while she eased herself down, fending off the urge to bristle or fidget or foot-tap.
Hopefully she had learned her lesson and wouldn't be doing that again. Now, if she would just unglue herself from the tree trunk a--
"SO, WHO WANTS TO TAKE CARE OF OUR NEW GUESTS?"
... Okay, for all the shrieking, howling and hootenanny that exploded into his eardrums right then, he suddenly didn't blame her so much for clinging; in fact, some primitive part of him had a mind to do it too, tail fraying like a pomeranian stuck on a high-voltage fence and every muscle in him locking over.
Shae was no better off, either, stiffening out of reflex and even clapping a hand over one ear to try and mute the overhwhelming CHAOS of the excited crowd. They were all yelling over one another, trying to be heard by being as LOUD AS POSSIBLE... and all they seemed to be accomplishing was giving her a horrible splitting headache.
"Everyone, please, calm down a moment!" Hanna was trying her best to play crowd-control, however, with some... marginal success. At least, a few yells were suddenly distinctive above the others and vaguely coherent, like...
"I got a great loft o'er a bar! Lotsa' free booze!"
"Two spare rooms!"
"Party food!"
"S'only a quick walk to the brothel from my place!"
"Fresh baked pie!"
"FREE SHOES."
Oh god, oh god, oh GOD it was a mess and a half and their heads were all reeling, but--
"My place is good'n quiet!" someone barked at the top of their lungs, and instantly Yossarian stepped in.
"THAT ONE," he snapped, pointing straight at the brassy loud ball of white fur who'd spoken up and bringing the whole mass to a sudden, awkward silence. "We'll... you. Your offer will suffice."
"Really now?" said hairball grinned-- a rather handsome fellow actually, so far as Kanus went, with a sleek little 'muzzle' on his face, pointed ears, and wolfish amber eyes. "Ah, man, this'll be just great. I'll be expectin' some good stories out of y'all from the North, you know!!"
... What on earth were they getting themselves into now?
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Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:22 pm
The sudden outbreak of noise almost sent Aster back up the tree. Instead, her tail prickle and it took every little ounce of self control scraped out of her little body to NOT latch to Yossarian. No really, she probably would have cut the circulation in his arm to hell and back while prickling and whining and yeah.
In fact, she instead used her free hands to grab the ends of her ears and flatten them out further to muffle the sound..maybe. Nope, not really working. It seemed that they were just going to yell and yeah. The other five were BOUND to find something entertaining to talk about stuff with.... maybe... and yeah.
She hadn't been in the decision making process for a while, so why would she worry about starting again now? The only decision she'd made was to put her foot in the literacy door and learn to read.. and only when she was happy with herself ....yeah, there was a goal there.
Kinda. A long term goal. A really long term goal.
Jade, on the other hand, had to strain his ears to actually hear all of these offers. Wow, what a loud social group! Were all Kanus social groups this loud? THey'd have to do them a LOT of travelling to get a taste of this and record it all. Months and months of it. It'd be pretty fantastic, actually.
He.. was excited about all this.
Kanda, was not. He was nowhere NEAR excited for any of this. In fact, he suddenly wished he had folded-ears too when the noise broke out, wincing and flattening his ears against his head while grimacing. It was a rather hilarious facial expression, to be honest.
At least it probably was if one was a sadist. Damn sadists. They seemed to have two of them in their group at the moment...
But soon enough it seemed Yossarian had latched onto a nice sounding opportunity. Quiet.
Nice and quiet.
"I agree with quiet." Kanda added on. Jade..., well.. "It's as good as anything, I suppose."
And Aster had no will/ no need to put her thoughts into the decision process. She was the group limp-foot that did nothing useful, afterall.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:14 am
... Funny, really, how different places seemed to interpret words differently-- like quiet, for example. Yossarian had always assumed it to have a rather straightforward definition, and yet, much to his surprise (and inevitable grief), the city of Chicago had an entirely different idea about just what quiet entailed... and (apparently) for them, the frisky thud-whumping and pleasured howls of a whorehouse were all just par for the course.
Because 'Wolfie' (no really, that was his call name, shortened from something more proper like Christian T. Wolfsbane), rather than living "a quick walk" from the local brothel, actually lived in the empty loft right above it... and there was no way up but passing through the establishment itself.
"Heeey, girls-- Brooke, you're lookin' gorgeous today!" And of course he knew each of the girls by name, greeting them as he burst into the ornately carved doors and surveyed the main "office", full of ominous passion-red, silked draped hallways and unusually well groomed bodies. "Don't mind me; I just picked up some guys from the North--"
"Ooooh, foreigners?!" A sudden and collective ripple of excitement echoed through the place and, in a split second, no less than seven dolled up girls had popped out of the woodworks to crowd and ogle their new guests. "Wolfie, where'd you find them?" the first asked, eyeing the men in particular and, more specifically, a certain fully furred, sword-slinging pair. "Heeey, kids, you know we give a right' nice traveler's discount around here--"
"Oh, give them some breathing room, would you?" Another girl snapped at her flirty sister, yanking her back by the tail (just as Yossarian recoiled in HORROR), and eyed... of all people, Shae, fluttering her lashes. "How old're you now, sweet thing? You know, it's not often we see that kind of smooth, bare skin 'round here..."
"..........." Shae, the poor girl, seemed entirely unsure how to respond to this, lips parting briefly but no sound coming out, secretly DESPERATE for some interruption to break the awkward in the air... but Wolfie just laughed in the backdrop, already having his hands full (literally) with one whore who'd embraced him happily.
"Don't worry, guys, they're harmless enough!" he grinned. "Not too many of 'em actually bite!"
"Oh, we only do that by request!" a third giggled.
... Yeeeah, Yossarian was definitely ready to go upstairs and be DONE, half-expecting the therapist to step in and round them upstairs, bu-- ... W-WAIT A SECOND, WHERE WAS HANNA GOING? She was... she was actually shmoozing with the enemy group, too!
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:29 am
fjafhdf;kadjsfhdas;fjdka;adsf. Aster's tail was going to be stuck in perma-prickling at the rate they were moving from place to place and she was having brand new horrors thrown at her (part of this may have been that she hadn't known what a 'brothel' was until they'd walked in. Ahhh!), practically shrinking at the back of the afs;klhdfadslk!!!
fja;dsfjl
HISSSSSSSSS!!!!
"ooOoh~ This little lady makes quite the noise~"
Aster, who had only hissed in response to having her a** GRABBED (WAHH!), seemed to have garnered some attention of a DIFFERENT variety, herself, namely that of a rather.. special looking Kanus fellow, likely 30 years her senior and seeming vaguely... Australian Shepardesque.
Oh man, oh man, oh man, oh man.. fdf;dfjksdfadf.
"I see you've brought home quite the little group, Wolfie." the man bid, wrapping an arm around a certain fold-ear's waist and yanking her over to his side. "Y'know, little lady, you're quite the little piece of artwork. We could use a Northerner around here..."
BAD TOUCH, BAD TOUCH, WAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Kanda, on the other hand, had only been able to politely shove (with his one good arm) a rather invasive female away from him while leaning with his less-able arm against the wall to keep himself steady.
"Awww, this young man seems to be a little beaten up~ Hey girls~ Should we give him a little TLC~~?" one of the girls, a very lovely Shiba-Inu girl, chimed to the rest of the girls.
Oh god, he was going to be sympathy lynched. asfl;kdf.
Jade, on the other hand, was also quite willing to endulge in the attentions of the residency of their would-be-livingquarters, stepping in from his little spot in the mob to start a little smooth-talking. Hey, if any profession could find out a little bit about everything....
then a polite man with a nice smile and some of that nice bare skin could probably get women spilling to him about cultural crap with nothing more than an offerred ear.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:55 am
The ogling was bad enough for Yossrian to deal with-- but suddenly watching Aster get yanked over to some uncouth mutt's side for forcible smooth talking? Now that was just a little much for him to tolerate, and so... he didn't. With a very punctuated hiss, in fact, he reached over and grabbed the shepherd's arm to physically pry it off her, pinning him with a sharp glare.
"She's not interested," he said in his most deadpan and threatening of tones, making it very clear that he was very displeased, and any more pressing of the matter would result in a quite possibly LOSING the offending limb.
Too bad that his threats just made him all the more appealing to the women in that tall, dark and mysterious warrior sort of way, earning a collective sound of 'ooooh' and hushed squealing that nearly made his stomach turn.
Yeah, okay, time to grab Aster by the elbow, yank her out of the mob, and make a beeline for the nearest staircase that HAD to lead them up to the loft. He was done playing around (despite the whimpers of his abandoned suitors).
"Awww, well, I'm sure they'll warm up to the accommodations before too long!" Wolfie, unfazed, chuckled amicably, flapping a hand to his fellow (dog) male. "Maybe they don't have this kinda' stuff up North... poor sonsabitches."
Shae would have quite happily bolted after Yossarian if she wasn't currently facing down a small group if increasingly interested and intimidating young ladies, all of whom seemed unfortunately charmed (and horribly gender confused) by her silent, stuttering, nearly-flushed antics. To make it even worse, now they were hitting on Sir, too, and all she could do was...
Wait.
"... You, my lady, have absolutely beautiful fur," she suddenly spoke up, flipping some mysterious acting switch and replacing her nervousness with a pleasant, cool smile, actually brave enough to cut between the Shiba and her 'victim' like it was the most natural thing in the world. "... Never in my homeland have I seen such a luster and color... How do you maintain it so well?"
The fact that she'd gone the whole nine yards to kiss the top of her hand immediately drew the attention of most every other female in the group, alarmed for a moment by the sudden 'coming out' out the the little prince from his shell... but no, the charm was infectious, and it spread like wildfire.
If Shae could do one thing well with herself, it was put on a show.
... She figured Sir could limp off upstairs with his sore, slow gait, and she could just... sneak off later to join him. Good plan, yeah? Hanging around downstairs wouldn't kill her, anyway.
Besides, the therapist and mad scientist seemed to be enjoying it enough, right? Surely, there'd be no real harm in it...
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:31 am
HER HERO QAAAAAQ. It didn't really take much beyond yanking the arm off of her for Aster to be MORE THAN HAPPY to find her comfort in latching to Yossarian's arm. No, she did not want to join the happy brothel family, no she did not want to be doing it with anybody, and NO, THOSE HARLOTS COULD NOT HAVE HER MAN, SO THEY BETTER STOP WHINING BEFORE SHE TURN INTO SUPERKITTEN.
Daniella had gotten it for trying to step in to her territory before, now she'd have to try and gain the will to do it again.
But now that they were up a flight of stairs for their FLEEING, Aster was free to..err... actually unlatch herself from Yossarian. "I'll...try to communicate that hiss to him better if he tries it again..." she mumbled, frowning a bit before falling back from the SUPERATYOSSARIAN'SSIDE position to half-scurry on ahead.
Well.. one of these doors had to..
...
Whiiiiine. All she could pick up from a good portion of these doors were..umm....noises.
Not so fun to hear noises. Waaaah!
Kanda, on the other hand, was still faced with the problem of actually limping away from the whole situation, given that while Shae WAS charming to these girls, there were still those who did like the taller and more furry foreigner with his DARK AND HANDSOME AND SO INJURED appearance.
"Y'know, hun, we have a way to fix allll yer ailments~" one girl, who had been oushone by how lovely the Shiba Inu was, had been more than happy to sidle up next to Kanda, who just frowned back at her. "I do too. It's called resting.." Kanda replied, trying to sound VERY uninterested...
but somehow it came off as hard-to-get.
Which just fueled a brand new fire. Blaaah!
Jade, on the other hand, had been quite happy to take up the company of one of the girls, sitting down in an adjacent room to start listening to the girl, in an almost ditsy way, start spieling a life-story with a lot of asides.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:23 pm
Quite frankly, Yossarian would've rather she just focus on standing up for HERSELF instead of just whining like some dazed damsel in distress right then, knowing that he was FULLY capable of defending his own hide, regardless of whether it was against enemy assassins or just crazed doggy whores. Still, though... at least they were free, and he was't about to slow his pace down now, striding toward the staircase that seemed so close, yet so very far...
And they'd made it, thank every vile, ill-humored god out there.
Glancing behind him, too, it seemed they were the only pair who'd managed to break away for safety, too.... which was depressing to a point, but eh. The other swordsman and Harper could take care of themselves.
"Very top a'the stairs, guys!" Wolfie had yelled from behind them-- as if Yossarian needed some kind of guidance to find the lone door at the end of the corridor. It wasn't locked, of course, and thus he pushed it open without trouble, revealing...
Huh. Looked like some kind of hodgepodged bachelor pad from hell. All the furniture pieces in the (relatively spacious) wall-free attic space were clearly hand-me-downs from the brothel: bed rolls on the floor with mismatched sheets, slightly dented dressers, beautiful armoires with little knicks or chips... No kitchen or restroom, as it seemed those facilities were... er, downstairs and all-- but it looked comfortable enough to sleep in, and there was an alarmingly vast amount of space.
"... Well, I suppose this could be w--" he said, only to be cut off by a shuddering MOAN reverberating up through the floorboards and actually echoing in the huge room.
... Okay, maybe he'd spoken too soon.
"My companion has been through a lot through quite a bit these past weeks," Shae, all the while, was still trying her damnedest to save a certain gray tabby from any more grief-- and doing a fair enough job of it, for the most part. Too bad her own charm wasn't quite matching up to Kanda's dark mystique for some. "I'm sure he'll be much more accommodating once he's slept a fair night or two..."
It really was impressive, how much of the young gentlemanly persona she was managing to pull off-- even if her insides were screaming at her to run as much as the next guy.
How she was going to keep them all distracted and entertained without winding up in some clumsy 'bedding' situation, she hadn't quite figured out yet, but uh... she'd play it by ear and manage somehow... she hoped.
As for Hanna, she'd been observing the whole thing, it seemed, all the while having some sweet and idle conversation with one of the older "ladies" while Jade wandered off in some other female's company... and with a thin, worn sigh, politely excused herself to go "find a restroom", or something to that extent.
Perhaps she'd snoop or shmooze in the meanwhile, but that was her business... she would keep it to herself. Such were her mysterious ways.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 1:38 pm
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
Aster's tail prickled immediately at the sound that came through the floor, staring in the general direction of it with wide eyes and a prickled tail. Buuuuuuuuuuuh?
WHAT HAD THAT BEEN?
WHAT? WHAT WAS IT? WAHHH?! Okay, she was actually trying to be in denial of that what happening downstairs, more than actually not-knowing what the sound had been. Afterall, her real problem had been that EVERYBODY ELSE HAD DONE IT BUT HER AND YOSSARIAN. Okay, certainly there was a perk to them waiting, but..fajfls;kdfafadsfjadskfl;af.
Even Kanda and Shae had..... she could feel a little butthurt over it all, okay!? However, once she was done DENYING THAT EVERYBODY ELSE WAS DOING WHAT SHE HADN'T DONE YET (and was slightly jealous about), she was going to go and look at stuff. Like the furniture.
Uhhh.
She didn't trust the furniture, actually. Hnnngh.
Kanda couldn't help but frown a little bit at the attention he was getting, but it seemed to him that he.... could also bail Shae out in this case.
"I..." ERRR.. "need you.." Kanda said, looking to Shae and then frowning. Between a wall and the lack of doors, he wasn't exactly going to be able to hobble upstairs on his own very easily.
And Jade was fraternizing, so he wasn't going to help... and Yossarian..no. He wasn't even going to THINK about going there.
Do not want.
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