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 Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 7:36 pm
... Oh, Yossarian knew exactly what that sound had been, and his brain didn't even waste the energy trying to deny it. No, he just frowned and inwardly seethed over it, already sensing in the pit of his gut that this was only the beginning of their noise-related woe for the day.
And of course the universe just had to reinforce this thought by throwing in a second deeper moaning to join the first, now a raucous, whumping duo of passion reverberating through the walls that made his skin crawl and his eyelid twitch madly. Deep breath in, deep breath out... Okay, he had to think of something else now. Like getting settled in.
With Fabio having been stabled on the way, after all, the dark male was carrying quite a few bags, which he strode over to dump by one of the many scattered bedrolls on the ground, proceeding to leer at it with a tangible distrust.
If that thing was used in the way he thought it was... it probably had some kind of disease, didn't it?
"... These are going to be rather trying accommodations," he muttered, perhaps to no one but himself.
Still, at least HE wasn't still in the thick of some hussy group-- which was more than could be said for poor Shae and Kanda right then. The latter, however, was doing his damnedest to save the former... with mixed results.
"You need him?" one girl echoed quizzically, followed by a split second of befuddlement before she made a very distinct "Oh!" face, and blinked, and then smiled sheepishly, chuckling to herself.
"I see! Goodness, should've caught that earlier," she laughed, "well, if you boys need to head upstairs to rest for a bit, don't let us keep ya'! Just come down and visit when you're all done, won't you?"
... Had Shae not been in the mode of a more cordial soul right then, she probably would have flushed bright red right then... but somehow, with great reservation and self-control, she just nodded politely, mustering a little bow to the other girls (who giggled and mused at their queer young prince) before sliding over to Kanda's side, with a mumble of, "of course; so sorry for the delay..."
Oh, the emasculation they went through... even if she wasn't technically male. With luggage under one arm as best she could manage and her other side free for pseudo-cane support, it was time to finally bolt (well, limp) for the stairs, to get away from one mess and into another, one step at a time.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:42 pm
Okay, that sound was enough to make ASTER blush with shame, frowning at the noise before looking to Yossarian as he ..eyed..the mattress. "I...would rather sleep on the floor, to be honest." she said, frowning and.. yeah, given the whumping from..wherever that was, she didn't even WANT to know what it was that could be on any of the surfaces in that room.
EW.
She.. didn't want to sleep on a stranger's body fluids kthnx. That would have fjas;dlkfjadsfhad;sfjaksdf. No. Just not even thinking about that one. That was just nasty on a whole NEW level she wasn't going to.
Yuuuuucccckkkk!
"I imagine the floor is..safer than most of the furniture." she continued. Hell, she WOULD have suggested turning the matress OVER, but she wasn't sure which side of it was safer.
Kanda, on the other hand, hadn't even picked up the possible implications of saying 'HAI, I R GIMP, HALPPLZ?' the way he had, frowning lightly when the ladies of the brothel just sort of..smiled to themselves and went off to be distracted with the disasterous doctor duo.
It was kinnnnda scary.
However, he had gotten a support out of it (not that he threw himself on Shae go 'LOOK, I CAN'T WALK') so they could take their leave as well.
"Seems we always manage to find a special housing situation."
Hey, it was entertaining Jade at least.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:27 pm
"Well regardless of where we sleep, I doubt there's any place clean in this wretched--" Poor, poor Yossarian and his statement: just never destined to finish, it seemed, because a great WHUMP of someone's bedding downstairs quite literally startled him into a full-blown flinch, leering down into the floorboards as if it might make them PROPERLY SHUT UP ALREADY.
"... Domicile," he finished, deflatedly and belatedly, once the caterwauling (dogerwauling?) had settled, ears flattening back against his skull and giving the bedroll a tentative prod with one foot. He could've sworn it wriggled at the touch, but...
Well, he'd just put on a brave face and testingly park his rear on the surface of it, actually feeling his feet give a little groan of relief to have the pressure taken off them. Okay.. this wasn't so terribly terrible so long as he didn't think about it, right?
"Of all the places to possibly settle, we had to choose this one," he grumbled, pinching the bridge of his nose to stave off a headache a-- ... oh, the doorknob was turning. Company? Was that the other pair, come to join them in their woe?
"... Better special housing than the open street," was all Shae had responded to Kanda's comment-- and with a ringing note of earnestness, too. Sure, this whole trip was turning out to be one grievance after another, but she still would've rather slept in a loft above a whorehouse than out on the open street with rats... or a roof with pigeons. Both of them she knew from personal experience, and it wasn't something she wanted to revisit.
With the lovely ladies (... of the evening) finally behind them, she could drop the gentleman facade and breathe a shaky sigh to herself, too, somehow managing to get the door open without dropping any carried luggage and quietly surveying the place.
Hmm... well, it was definitely a collection of leftovers from downstairs, but workable enough. There was space and there were beds, and for her, that was enough. Bags would be dropped at the door sans her own, making sure Kanda was good and stable (and within easy limping distance of a spot for his own rear) before she made a beeline to just... sit, bidding a weary half-hello to the other pair a few meters away (.. no seriously, there were lots of bedrolls on both walls; it looked like Wolfie held nightly SLUMBER PARTIES up there-- ....
... Maybe he did, but she wasn't going to think of that.)
"So... I see you two escaped the harlot flock more or less intact," Yossarian noted blandly by way of a greeting.
Although the fifth and sixth unwanted members of the "quartet" were still down there-- perhaps they'd died horribly down there?
(Ha, wishful thinking.)
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:25 pm
Aster frowned even MORE at the mattress after that last loud whump-moan-scream-thing, tail prickling up before she finally just slammed one foot against the floor and hissed down through it. SHE WANTED QUIET, DAMMIT. Though that probably sounded like something ELSE to those who were down there.
Oh dear.
"=We= didn't choose this." Aster pointed out, frowning at him before moving to take a look (and carefully prod) at another one of the mattresses before plunking down her OWN behind onto it. She could only HOPE the sheets were clean, if nothing else.
Ewwwwwwww. Aster just folded her arms and frowned, even when the door opened.
Somehow, the scene of the 'happy couple' on opposite sides of the room from each other was slightly puzzling to Kanda, who knew better than to comment, instead just finding a spot to plant himself (that was reasonably clean).
Nnngh.. he...needed tea or something.
"I wonder how many days it'll be before we're used to the sound.." Kanda said, frowning at the idea of getting used to the
...... FUNNY SOUND THAT JUST CAME THROUGH THE FLOORBOARD (thankfully not literally, fajdf;l).
Nnnngh. "I don't even want to know how the kitchen is.."
FULL OF NEKKID COOKS PROBABLY. Good thing Aster wasn't helping.
Jade, on the other hand, was finding himself QUITE pleased to be learning a whole new plethora of information about the area (as well as amusing himself with keeping the MAJORITY of his clothing on, silly females).
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 7:11 pm
Honestly, those weren't the kinds of noises he would've expected a passionate couple to be making. Really, it sounded more like some pair of drunk mutts having a scrap in an alleyway, but... no, he wasn't going to let himself think on any more analogies-- not while it was still going on and assaulting his eardrums.
"... Well, forgive my miswording," Yossarian grumbled with no amusement whatsoever, still leering at the floorboards like it would truly make them shut up. Of course it didn't... but it made him feel like he was doing something a little more productive than just sitting. "It all equates to the very same suffering regardless."
He was right there, unfortunately, taking a moment to glance back at the other duo again and knit his brows together in frustration. No... Shae and Kanda were up as much of a creek as they were-- but what could they do (aside from each other)?
"... Too many to get a comfortable night's sleep during our stay," the former had muttered grimly in response to the latter's question, too, frowning rather dimly, and weakly, now that she could finally relax her tiresome acting in full.
God, that lingering sick ache in her chest was still there, and she was already feeling the energy drain out of her just thinking about how to handle the rest of the day. Sure, maybe that bedroll underneath her had some disease stewing in it... but that couldn't be any worse than she'd already suffered, and thus, with a dull inward groan of resignation, she just curled up on top of the thing.
The whumping might keep her up, but at the very least, maybe she could rest her eyelids just a little--
CREAKHOWLCREAKHOWLPANTPANTPANT
... Or maybe that was just wishful thinking.
"So... what do you propose we do now?" Yossarian offered openly in the dead (creaking) air, clearly for lack of anything better.
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Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 8:06 pm
Aster was more than happy to hiss right back at him, before she also laid back on the bedroll, causing it to...squeak.
...... That noise was going to haunt her FOREVER, if she did say so herself. Booooo. She wanted a quiet bed. Notes to self: Down mattress, small house. She didn't want Grandpa's house. Aster looked to Kanda and Shae as they settled in before she sighed and stretched out across the bed.
Creak creak.
Iiiick. Badnoise. Aster grabbed her ears again, pulling them down to again try and muffle that HORRID HORRID NOISE. fjk;afhsafjal;fhsdkfsadf.
fjasdlfkhdas;fhkadsfjad;sfhadlsj. It was going to be in her head FOREVER. For-ev-vahr.
Secondary note to self: Place where other people live = not a good place to go unf unf in without waking the neighbors.
Kanda's ears just flattened back at the sound before he too frowned through the floorboards. Uhhhhhh..wow. Shae was right, this was going to be a very special long experience, now wasn't it?
"And how long will it take us to get these sounds out of our heads?"
FOREVER.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:39 pm
Well, his question had gone completely unanswered; how very quaint. It was like the rotten icing atop a bad cake for his mood, wanting nothing more right then but to find a dark corner to SEETH and yet... no, every corner in this creaky loft was full of howling, raucous, dirty dogsounds.
So he settled for the next best thing, and resigned himself to just stare at the closest (and quietest) wall, miserably, as if willing time to pass faster, dammit, PASS FASTER.
"... Too long," Shae muttered to Kanda, not even lifting her head once she's rested it on the cushioning of the bedroll and putting a hand over her eyes. Blocking out the sunlight even more? Oh, maybe. She could only hope a greater darkness might soothe her rattled brain and the sure headache she'd be cultivating soon. God, she was in the very same boat as Mister Yossarian, already praying for the day to hurry and and get itself over with. "This... will probably be staying with us for a while, u-unfortunately..."
Her voice even cracked there as though to prove some point in just how worn out she was, ears flicking back-- or at least, the one not already smashed against bedding.
And thus, the noise (and misery therein) continued.
Yossarian sulked until he couldn't sulk anymore. Shae seemed to sleep-- or at least lay there as still as she could when the rafters themselves weren't TREMBLING from someone's passion. Hanna was... off, somewhere, and Wolfie seemed distracted in the downstairs of the building doing... er. Probably someone. He seemed rather popular with the girls, didn't he?
But what finally interrupted the usual dreary trickle of time? Why, a noise even louder than sex, which turned out to be Yossarian's own stomach, giving a rather startling and unexpected gurgle for the ages and earning a sulky leer.
Damn it all, he didn't want to brave the stairs for a meal now!
... How unfortunately inevitable.
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:15 pm
Quite hilariously, Aster's stomach had rumbled in almost-unison to Yossarians, causing her to frown at it, and then at him before looking away again. Booo! That was awkward! Yes, she was kinda (really) hungry, but it wasn't worth it to her to go 'fjasldkf' and romp downstairs to get her some noms.
Not worth it at all.
However, between their current location in the brothel and the scary town beyond it all, she...as;dfjaklsfhds;lf. She'd rather be out in Kanus land without the ..howlings..andfja;sdfhka;fjSqueakingbedspringsogod.Ogod..
fajdkl.
Aster yanked her ears down to buffer the sound ofaj;aklsfj before suddenly jumping to her feet. "i-I'm going out!" she blurted, before practically BOLTING out of the room. LEAVING NOW, LEAVVIINNGGG. ;AAAAAAA;
Kanda was almost surprised by the sudden panic. Except that Asteria's panic-attacks weren't a 'rare' thing, persay. No, it was actually rather common for Aster to go "fjasd;fhasdlk" at things that were..intimacy-related.
"Getting out of here does sound like a good plan.." Kanda had to agree..however... the idea of passing through downstairs again was actually rather.. questionable.
Hmmmm... Should he have just climbed out through the window?
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:43 pm
Hungry was an understatement. In fact, it was an understatement of an understatement. Leering sourly at the door, then back at his own stomach, Yossarian inwardly debated his options... only to be rudely interrupted by Aster's sudden exclamation and a butter-colored blur whizzing through his vision.
Well, dammit. Guess that made his role in this pretty clear, huh.
Because if Yossarian knew one thing by now, it was how the world worked when she was involved, and if she went down there by herself, some slovenly, uncouth dog gentleman would inevitably materialize from thin air to harass her, and she would somehow get herself roped into a corner, possibly molested, and decidedly put in a place of great discomfort to cause unrest for weeks to come. Thus, with a heavy and frustrated sigh, he resigned himself to get up and follow in her wake, lamely puttering off down the stairs.
The sound of whumping got inexplicably quieter with every step he took too, he noted, not quite sure whether it was better to deal with the sound or the ladies themselves. For better or for worse, though--
"Why, if it isn't Darkie!" a shepherd girl immediately announced in passing, stopping to wave at him vigorously, and grin. "Finally come down to--"
"Eat," he cut her off in a deadpan tone.
Unfortunately... she just giggled and rolled her eyes, clearly unconvinced. He huffed and pressed on.
... Which just left Shae and Kanda upstairs, didn't it? Their stomachs were bound to be rumbling too, what with even less nutrients to their name in the long run, but the former-- still laying on that same bedroll with her eyes blearily covered-- still seemed to clinging to whatever semblance of rest she'd been suffering... until a loud bed-creaky thump quite literally JARRED her upright, and she choked back a groan, looking decidedly pale.
It wasn't getting any better, and that frustrated her terribly. There'd be no restfulness for her any time soon... or so it felt like, anyway.
"... I guess... it can't be avoided forever, can it," she mumbled in a dry-throated, weary tone, scrubbing at her eyes and quietly mustering whatever energy was left in her to put on a good face. Breathe in, breathe out; finally, she stood up to meander the three steps over to him, and stood there, a patient, if not worn out cane.
Surely, she'd feel better after some kind of meal... right?
And where were Jade and Hanna in all of this? The latter therapist didn't seem to be anywhere, did she?...
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:55 pm
Well yes, Aster DID get into a fun little incident when she got down the stairs... only it wasn't with a 'magicked out of thin air male' to harass her, it was another one of the girls. A smaller girl who was more than happy to sidle over to her side and wrap an arm around her waist.
Wuuaauuggghhhhhhhh!!!
Aster practically flailed out of the girl's reach though, pressing herself against the wall (where she remained) and side-stepping her way down the hallway to MAYBE MAYBE get out the front door. Except a few feet away from said door...
fajsdfkhas;fladjsfadshf;asjdsafh;dskj!!!!!!!!!!!
The sound of a hissing YOWL was a good punctuation to say her BUTT HAD JUST GOTTEN GRABBED AGAIN. BY THE SAME GUY.
Who was significantly more drunk this time around.
Wahhh! HIssspit!DONOTWANT.
Kanda sighed, his own stomach going ">8C" at him now that the other pair was gone, stretching out on the mattress before sitting up. "Perhaps we should go downstairs while there's at least company"
And by company, he meant the kind they could suffer with.
Jade, on the other hand, was rather enjoying the attention he was getting from the hoarde of whores in his company. Or rather how easily they told him abut the region.
Fufufu.
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:25 am
... The whore grab had not been expected in his great cosmic plan of failure, but a drunkard coming out to sling his arm around her was hopelessly par for the course, Yossarian having shoved by and gotten out the door on her trail RIGHT on time to see it... and promptly grabbing not just his sword, but his SHEATH as well (thankfully still on the blade) to go intervene.
Or, more specifically, to intervene by THRUSTING it into his chest like a blunt battering ram, with a punctuated HISS that, rather surprisingly, brought the noise of the crowd (which had gathered seemingly out of nowhere as soon as she HISSED) to a sudden halt...
Before they started up with a new fervor so giddy that he nearly jumped back, tail frizzing like a brown cactus behind him.
"Excuse me--"
"Lookit, it's a couple'a sleek-tails from up North!"
"Ooooh, right cute ones, too!"
Wait a second, just who were they referring to by tha--
"Where'd you kids come from?"
"You stayin' long?"
"D'you WORK in that place?"
"... Can I pet'cher fur, dude?"
Oh god, oh god, oh GOD did they bolt back inside to the whores or?...
And of course the raucous commotion was plainly audible as soon as the other duo had made their way downstairs, Shae remaining the slow and patient crutch Kanda needed to traverse their way down, and keeping her responses at bare nods on the way. They weren't even greeted by a whore mob, what with attentions already being pulled elsewhere by Yossarian and Aster, but...
Well, that didn't mean they were any less involved. Sigh.
"... They certainly know how to make a scene," she muttered wearily under her breath, to no one but herself. "Should... we intervene, Sir?..."
Or rather, should she, and he sit back to rest that bum leg of his? Poor guy, still a gimp like that... but hey, Jade and Hanna still had that magic healing serum and he'd be better soon, right?
"Oooh, welcome back, gentlemen!" a passing whore greeted them brightly, some eerie twinkle in her eye greeting them. "Feeling better after your 'rest', now?..."
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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:41 am
Yeah, Aster's tail was puffed up just as much, 'eeek'ing quietly before she huddled over to Yossarian's side and frowned disapprovingly at the sudden MOB. Oh god, she hadn't thought her gut would go '>8D' at her when she made up her mind to go out in public to food.
Waaahhh!
RrrrrrRRRRRR!! HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
The sound of Aster strongly asserting a 'Do not want!' was possibly attractive, given how passive 'SAVE ME' she was normally. However, either way she suddenly swatted a face that got too close to her, half-backed up onto a fence by that point and even the hair on her head starting to prickle up.
"b-BACK OFF!" she yowled, "Don't touch me! Don't come near me!" HIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
Somehow, this just earned her all sorts of new attention. Namely in those who wanted to know how she made that pretty little noise. Waah!
Kanda seemed less irritated once outside by the odd attention they were getting. It was better to just want to pet his fur than to jump his bones and see how a 'foreigner' fared in bed. Yick.
"No. Butting in would make the situation worse than it already is."
He then turned his attention towards the whore, frowning. "It wasn't much of a rest." he said obliviously, unaware that he had likely just made the idea that he was doing Shae upstairs even MORE likely.
Sans the fact that if he was, it would never be in the same room as Yossarian and Aster. That would have been all sorts of wrong.
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 6:04 pm
The reflexive hissing didn't get Yossarian much farther than it did Aster, discovering all too late that, alas, his sounds of disgruntlement only excited the crowd that much more. Just how on earth were they going to get out of this mess, again? Was it really better to dive back into the whorehouse?
"Would the lot of you just leave us be, already?!" he (attemptively) snapped at them, only to have his voice lost in the sea of yapping.
And then one large body suddenly pushed through the crowd and they allfell silent, GLARED into submission by an odd ghost-blue and wood-brown eyes. Yossarian, in turn, felt his skin tingling with unease the moment he layed eyes upon the strange crop-tailed, point-eared... gentleman, who was dressed in an abnormally clean black suit and fedora. His fur... he looked like a doberman who'd rolled in cinnamon sans those eyes, all dark rust red and paler cream.
"You gotta understand; we don't get many tourists like yourselves in these parts-- not yet, anyway," he said coolly, extending a pleasant hand to shake in the other male's direction... but finding it refused, shrugging it off with a charming smile, and rolling his shoulders. "Anyway... how'd you get here?"
"Wolfie brought them in!" one cheerfully helpful whore (who'd been eavesdropping) crooned from the doorway, earning a quirked brow from the stranger and a whole new curious scrutiny.
"Wolfie, was it?..." he repeated, seeming to contemplate something... before he chuckled. "Well, now; any friend of his is a friend a'mine in turn! The name's Kingsley-- Kingsley Black; but please, just call me King."
"............" said Yossarian, clearly not approving by face alone-- but the newly dubbed King just laughed all over again, deeply.
"I'm gonna hazard a guess that you were goin' out for dinner, right?" he went on. "Yeah, those ladies can do a lot a'magic, but not so much in the kitchen~" Wait, what was THAT supposed to mean. "I came by to take out Wolfie, but if you'd like to come along..."
... Oooh lord, what did they even SAY to that? And King was such a damn smooth talking charmer, too!
"Really now?" meanwhile, the charming lady who'd questioned Kanda so politely made a little 'oh!' face and smiled to herself, giggling almost... mischievously. Just what had she taken that comment for? "Well..." she mused, giving him a sympathetic (and very light) pat on the shoulder, "just make sure to take things gently when you're weary, hmm? A friend of mine once threw her hip out that way, poor girl..."
She went off like that down the hall, muttering sweetly to herself... which left Shae to hang there, perhaps having caught on to the implication, but (somehow) choking down any urge to fluster. So then, they weren't going to intervene with Yossarian and Aster... but what about the other other two?
"Where are Mister Jade and Miss Hanna?..." she muttered under her breath, glancing this way and that as discretely as she could to just make that obligatory check. Nope, as expected, no sign of a soul sans the whores-- ... except that other one who'd heard her.
"Oooh, Jade?" the lovely golden retriever woman (with a bosom so hefty she could've probably hidden a beer bottle in her cleavage) cooed ever-so-sweetly, halting to talk back at them. "If you're looking for him, he's in the back... being hogged by those selfish hussies. Hmph!"
Yeah, clearly she'd been jealous.
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:13 pm
While Jade would be oblivious to how he was making wimmenz jealous by NOT sleeping with anybody! OMAI. How...scandalous? Was not-unfing scandalous? He didn't know. However, elsewhere, there was more hilarity to be hard!
Namely in the very..special fellow who had shown up, Aster FINALLY shuffling over to Yossarian's side, her tail curling up between her legs. Eeek! "i-I don't even want to know what the kitchen looks like.." Aster mumbled, looping one arm (shakily) around one of Yossarian's. Dammit, she'd been trying to hard to not cling to him for comfort (since they had been ">8C" ing at each other), but ultimately had just gone 'fjsadlkfj' and given up.
Sobfail.
"b-But I think a point in the right direction would be good enough for us.."
I DON'T WANNA BE TRAPPED AT A TABLE WITH YOU.
Or else she'd shake and cry all night like a distressed little kitty. Mrow. Mrowmrowmrowmrowmrow!
Kanda's ears flattened back a bit, seeming puzzled, before he simply shrugged. Ahhh well. It wasn't like he had some BIG MANRII EGO to protect/reenforce by going to have a romp in the sheets with one of the girls. That just wasn't his thing.
He couldn't even remember his 'real' romp in the sheets.
"That doesn't tell us where Hanna is." Kanda answered flatly, his ears flattening back against his head. FULL QUESTION, NOT HALF QUESTION PLZ.
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:56 pm
If Aster whined and cried any more than she had already, Yossarian would've probably stabbed a pencil through his own eardrums-- no, really; he already had far too much on his plate and she made it no better with that noxious sound, accomplishing little more than grating on his nerves.
"Trust me, it's not a pretty sight," King had made certain to assure her, too, passing the lovely halfbreed a suave glance and smiling oh-so-casually, before his attention was back on the more... authoritative foreigner of the two. "Really, though, I insist; if you two want a decent meal, I know the best places in town."
"I--" Yossarian started to protest.
"My treat," King cut him off a little too blithely, grinning from ear to ear and letting loose that eerily suave chuckle once more. "Consider it a taste of 'Southern Hospitality', if you will. A gift from my country, to yours. I'm curious to hear about it, too--"
"Heeey, King!" And once again the conversation was interrupted-- but by the cheerful Wolfie this time, having stumbled out of one of the very front rooms (... looking a little disheveled, but quite pleased with himself) and practically FLOWN out the door to greet his... apparent friend with a holler. "You're early!"
"I think you're late, Wolfie," King returned slyly, "but anyway... I was just talking to you new buddies here and thought they'd come along."
"Well I haven't seen her around for a while," the golden retriever woman shot back at Kanda almost defensively... but she mellowed out again just as fast, fluttering her lashes sweetly at the dear pair of 'boys'. "She left some while ago, I think. Hasn't come back yet either."
"... I... see." Shae didn't quite seem sure what to make of that statement (or if she was thinking over it, she didn't show it) at first, but nodded and forced a thin, cordial smile anyway. "Thank you kindly for telling us, Miss. We appreciate it."
"Any time, Sweet Thing." And off she went, flounce flounce flounce.
"..." Sweet Thing? Had that really been necessary? Well uh... anyway, the little halfbreed shrugged it off, glancing right back to Kanda. "A-ah... Maybe.. Mister Jade will know?..."
She had no better suggestion-- and they probably should've checked in with how the technical 'leader' of the ragtag party was doing anyway... assuming he wasn't doing someone at the moment. Time to limp their way off on the epic journey to find him, she supposed?
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