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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 1:24:01 GMT
Kina closed her eyes as she shuddered and mumbled, "Better than the alternative." She looked towards Lexi and smiled, "I'm Kina, a Valkyrie" She picked up the pace a little as they got closer to the city gate. She groaned as she saw it was heart-shaped and red. "You'd think they'd get sick of that damn shape" The gate was closed and the walls around the city were high as if to prevent unwanted people from entering, not a problem for Kina to climb if used her claws. She decided to knock first, it was the polite thing to do after all.
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 1:30:53 GMT
'What's the alternative?' Lexi wondered, but she didn't dare say it out loud. "I've never met a Valkyrie, I don't think" she said "I thought you generally stayed in Valhalla...?"
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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 1:34:18 GMT
Kina turned to face Lexi as they waited for an answer. "Most usually do, but I got bored after the first 300 years, there isn't a whole lot to do there. So I left, and now I can't go back." Kina knocked on the gate again, louder and harder. "What's taking them so damn long?"
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 1:38:42 GMT
"You can't go back?" Lexi had never heard of a place she couldn't get to before, let alone her home. She wondered what it would be like if she could never return to the Underworld and the thought sent a wave of sadness over her. 'Still' she thought 'I've finally found someone older than me'
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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 1:50:36 GMT
Kina stared at the gate, as if weighing up how easy it would be to kick through. "Nope, never," she replied to Lexi's question, "It's a plane separate to earth but existing in the same physical space, with a one-way portal." Kina banged on the gate again harder and heard the wood crack slightly. "Freya and Woden decreed that it stay like that to keep the younger Valkyrie safe as well as themselves. As sleeping gods, they have little other way of doing so." Kina stopped to grin at Lexi as she stepped back a bit. "But then, I always liked a bit of danger" She kicked the gate wide open as part of it folded in on itself and splintered, as she stepped through. "What? No welcoming party?"
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 2:05:00 GMT
"Well, that's one way of doing it..." Lexi followed Kina through the broken gate. "Have you ever considered finding out if the QA has a way in?" she asked, genuinely curious as she stepped carefully over half the gate lying on the floor. "They seem to have a portal to everywhere..." Lexi stood in the middle of the road beyond the gate. It was completely deserted. 'Get out! Get out now! Something's wrong!' a small voice in her head yelled.
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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 7:18:59 GMT
Kina's eyes darted around the area beyond the gate, and tightened the grip on her axe. 'Something's not right,' she thought to herself as she stepped slowly through the gate. "Oh come on, it's more fun this way, provoke the locals and all that" Kina grinned menacingly as she heard swift footsteps behind her, she waited until the very last moment and turned and swung her axe up to meet the sword of the man behind her. Kina knocked him backwards and he fell to the floor. She pointed one head of her axe at his chest and asked politely, "Where's the house that looks like no other?"
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 15:45:46 GMT
Lexi watched the man's sword clatter away. He didn't look like he was from this world either. "I don't know what you're talking about." Lexi sighed. They always had to do it the hard way, didn't they. "Let's try a different question then." She pulled one of her long knives from its sheath at her waist and put the point at the man's throat. "Who sent you?"
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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 16:08:42 GMT
Kina could see the beads of sweat form on the man' s forehead as he looked down at Lexi's knife at his throat and gulped loudly. His body shook with fear and Kina raised her eyebrows at him as he stuttered, "N-no one, I w-was on my way here for a vacataion" Kina scowled at him "So why did you attack me?" When the man gave no reply she put one foot lightly on his leg and raised her axe aiming for his ankle. "One chance, the truth or you lose the foot!" The man still chose silence over telling them what they wanted to hear, so she swung the axe stopping a centimetre above the ankle bone, as the man called out "WAIT! I-I'll tell..."
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 16:24:15 GMT
Lexi was impressed with Kina's reflexes. She relaxed her knife a little to let the man speak. "I don't know who sent me." Lexi pushed her knife into his neck again "That's the truth!" He yelled, his voice hoarse. She relaxed her knife arm again. "Explain." "I am part of an agency. I am simply contracted out, I don't deal with the clients directly." Lexi wondered if he was telling the truth or spinning lies, but she didn't press him. "Why did you attack?" "I was following orders!"
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