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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 16:31:42 GMT
Kina stared the man, this was all she needed, another person out for her life. "You must have dealt with someone, who gives you your orders?" The man shut up once more, having realised he'd said too much already. She flashed him a look daring him to give her a reason to hurt him. He trembled with fear, which gave Kina a weird sense of satisfaction. The man's gaze flickered between the two of them, and it was clear he was wondering who to fear the most.
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 17:17:29 GMT
Clearly Lexi looked less frightening than Kina, because the man looked to her with an almost pleading stare. The voice in her head offered her a word of advice 'Mercy is the mark of a good man' Her conscious mind followed with 'I am not a man' But he still stared at her. She decided the way to make him give up on her was to be more fearsome-looking than Kina. She concentrated, stopping her heartbeat and breathing. Ice blue pigment swirled into her eyes, blocking her usual green. Colour drained from her skin and an air of death crept about her. Her fangs extended, her ears pointed more and her nails grew sharper. It took a fair amount of concentration to do it all, and Lexi only hoped it was worth it. "I'll ask you again," her voice rasped "who gives you orders?"
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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 17:38:14 GMT
Kina heard Lexi's change of voice and felt a strange sense creep over her body, she briefly glanced at Lexi, careful not to let a trace of emotion cross her face, so the man believed this was normal to her. But as the man paled at the sight, she knew Lexi was one person she would not want to cross. The man tripped over his words, it was as if he couldn't get them out fast enough. He clearly did not want to be in the presence of these two fearsome women any longer. "I don't deal with anyone directly, I have one guy who sends me the contracts and if the money is good I ask no questions." Kina turned to Lexi "Perhaps we should just get rid of him, it seems he knows nothing, and is of no importance to us." At a shout of protest from the man, she looked back at him, "Wait, I may know something... There have been rumours floating around that Cupid is in danger, from whom I don't know, but it may have been him, he has many connections in this area."
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 18:45:40 GMT
"Where is he?" Lexi growled. The man struggled just to look at her. "Where's Cupid?" "I don't know, he holed himself up somewhere months ago." He addressed this to Kina. Lexi's change seemed to have done the trick. "He's useless" she rasped "kill him."
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Post by Sierra on Jul 20, 2012 19:02:06 GMT
Kina nodded sharply as Lexi took a step back. 'Finally some blood to spill,' she thought to herself. She lifted her axe and twirled it a few times in the air relishing how light it felt in her hand. The axe whistled through the air as it sped towards his neck, as much as Kina loved to draw out the people's fear of death she was impatient to finish this quest. The man had just started to say something when his head slid clean off his shoulders and landed in the grass behind the body with an soft 'thump'. Kina felt no remorse at the loss of information and held a completely deadpan expression. "Oops" She shrugged and turned to face the city once more.
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Post by Echo on Jul 20, 2012 23:09:56 GMT
Lexi, on the other hand, did feel the loss of potential information could be a problem, and cursed herself for her lack of restraint when in full Vampire form. She never relished a kill, and the fact that she had ordered this one but not carried it out herself weighed on her mind. 'The sooner this is over with the better' she thought as she relaxed her mind and let her body slip back into its usual form. Her eyes changed to green as the ice blue vanished. Her fangs retracted, along with her nails. Her heartbeat and breathing restarted and colour came back to her skin. Death no longer lingered around her, unless you counted the headless man at her feet. The man's blood was gushing from his severed neck; his heart was still beating, just. Lexi was quick to take a vial from a pouch on her belt and hold it to the strongest blood flow. "We should hide him" she said as she waited for the vial to fill "you never know who might come by, and a beheading in Valentines City might not go down so well... If there's anyone here to see him..."
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Post by Sierra on Jul 21, 2012 18:34:34 GMT
Kina looked about her, seeing no obvious hiding places. "I suppose I could dig a hole," she stated, not relishing the idea of getting clumps of mud stuck under her claws. She had hoped to get out of this city as quickly as possible, but she was starting to believe this might take a little longer than she had originally hoped. Kina pondered what the outcome of the quest might be, she knew when people hired her it was usually because someone was getting a little too big for their boots and needed dispatching. She hadn't chosen this quest, she had been requested by name and that gave her the chills now that someone had tried to kill her. From what she had heard from the, now headless, man she assumed it would end up having something to do with this Cupid guy.
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Post by Echo on Jul 21, 2012 19:09:25 GMT
"No, no" Lexi said, standing up, sealing the vial and putting it back in her belt pouch "we can just hide him on the other side of the wall". She considered this. It wasn't very careful, but she wouldn't have beheaded the man in the first place, there are far more subtle deaths to be dealt. "People here probably won't bother looking behind the wall if there's no particular reason to. I'll clean up the blood if you take him and his head round there and hide them" she didn't really want Kina seeing how she would clear it up "then we can just shuffle the gate pieces away elsewhere and they might not notice him." She wasn't particularly sure this was a brilliant plan, but it was better than spending ages digging a hole in the ground just to bury a no-named, incompetent assassin.
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Post by Sierra on Jul 21, 2012 19:22:30 GMT
Kina liked this plan, no unneccesary getting messy. She grabbed the hand of the body and slung it over her shoulder like it weighed as little as a ragdoll. She grabbed the head by it's hair and wandered out past the pieces of gate and down to a secluded spot behind the wall. She dropped the body unceremoniously on the ground, and positioned it so it was sitting upright. She then propped the head on top and chuckled to herself. She took a slow stroll back to the gate to find the blood gone, and wondered how Lexi would have cleaned it up. A grim picture flickered into her mind and she decided she didn't want to know.
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Post by Echo on Jul 21, 2012 21:25:20 GMT
Lexi straightened, her lips a little redder than usual. She licked them as Kina came back through the broken gateway. "Come on" she said "we need to shift the gate..."
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