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[blastiafreak]

[Main screen turn on! It's Rita, in the middle of the night, looking both bewildered and dirty. Since she left to take a peek at the mountain with Tyr, she hasn't been home at all and now she is trying to make sense of her current surroundings: a subtropical forest.]

Uh, has this always been here? I could've sworn we didn't have this kind of climate around here before, when I was...was...

[She trails off, whatever she was getting at escaping her. In confusion, she looks around. The back-light for the communicator's screen illuminates her even in the pitch-black forest--as well as showing off the back of her head when she turns, where the hair is matted with dried blood. She doesn't appear to have noticed it, though.]

Hey, what's the date today? Or tonight, I guess.

Comments

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Rita? Geez, what kind of things are you getting yourself into.

[blastiafreak]

[Just stares for a moment, then blinks.]

...Beats me. Got any idea where this is?

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

No idea. Never seen a place like that in the City. A curse?

[blastiafreak]

These stupid curses. It would be that, wouldn't it?

I'm pretty sure this is new, so it must've started tonight...I think.

[Still looking vaguely confused.]

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Hope it doesn't stay. Would make things more confusing.

[Raises eyebrow]

Something up?

[blastiafreak]

Yeah. It's hard enough without getting lost because the scenery's changing!

[Stare.]

...Something--

[Blink]

I think there might be something out here, that's all.

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Knowing the City? Some kind of monster.

[blastiafreak]

Not like a monster would be anything knew, but this is the City. It better not be anything like those statues.

[Staaare.]

...If I burn the whole place down, that should get rid of it easily...

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Always gotta go the extreme route.

[blastiafreak]

...Of course they do. The deities wouldn't get any of their stupid kicks out of it if they easy to deal with.

[It's like she never even said the second part.]

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Do what you gotta do, Rita.

[blastiafreak]

...Yeah, there's no way I'm just going to sit around and let some dumb monster eat me. I'm getting out of here!

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Want me to try finding you?

[blastiafreak]

If can tell one tree from another in the middle of the night, go ahead.

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Send a little flare and maybe I can come fetch you?

[blastiafreak]

Anything else around here would see it too, you know. Or do you want me to draw the attention of every monster from here to the city?

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

I have absolutely faith that you can take care of yourself just fine.

[blastiafreak]

...Hmph. Fine, I'll throw up a fireball. Are you watching?

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Hold on.

[Outside, near...tall grass!]

Go for it.

[blastiafreak]

Yeah, yeah...Fireball!

[Up it goes! And then a noisy racket explodes all around, consisting of rustling foliage, pounding footsteps, and shrieking dinosaurs--all retreating.]

What the hell?

...Guess fire's pretty effective on these guys.

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

...Sounds like some pretty big monsters. Well, least you've got the advantage.

[blastiafreak]

There were way more than I was expecting, but at least they ran away.

So did you see it?

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

I did. See you soon?

[blastiafreak]

Yeah, sure. Don't let any monsters eat you.

[She crosses her arms to wait impatiently, and occasionally shoots fireballs at dinosaurs that get too close.]

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Have a little more faith.

[Already slashing his way through the grass]

[blastiafreak]

That's practically your catchphrase.

[blahblahblah waiting...until slug starts to wander away]

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

[Finally finds her! And grins]

I'm here to save the damsel in distress.

[blastiafreak]

[Answers with a completely blank look--but it quickly disappears after a moment, replaced with her typical arms-crossed-pose.]

...Yeah, I'm in tons of distress here.

[notflynn.livejournal.com]

Good thing I made it in time.

[Laughs]

[blastiafreak]

And without a single monster bite. I'm impressed.

[Rolls her eyes, but the corner of her mouth sort of lifts up.]