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She'd been watching the stairs for just this chance. From her table (http://www.livejournal.com/community/milliways_bar/1758498.html?view=66794274#t66794274) with Joe, she shifts into her swarm-of-bats form and they fly at Anthy to batter and bite at her, swarming around their victim to keep at it.

Anthy!

*Meg sees the disturbance and comes running over, battering at the bats with her hands.*

Get off of her!

*Anthy tries to cover her eyes.*

"Christ! Mina!" Joe hurries towards the chaos. "This isn't--" Fuck.

This is Mina?

*Meg stares at Joe for a second.* What the bloody inferne - Mina, stop!

Val looks over from where she's working with her garlands again. "Frell! Mina!" She's seen the bats before, and runs over, trying to get in the bats, talking as loud as she can. "Mina! Dont' do this! Please! I don't know what's going on, but stop!"

Nick...heard Meg scream. He heard Meg scream and he can feel hate pulsing at his skin, beating at him like a rock in rough water. He's in flight a second later, and he sees the problem heading straight for Val and Meg (and Anthy)...and gets in the way.

"Mina. This isn't wise."

He's rather calm, honestly.

She swarms past those in her way, determined to kill Anthy. Most bats fly past after scratching or bashing themselves into her, but some stay to bite.

*Meg, catching on, grabs Anthy and shoves her under the nearest table, planting herself in front of it. Her voice is so shrill that the windows in Milliways are probably in danger of exploding.*

Mina, I said stop!

Nick absentlly grabs a bat from the pack that are swarming and makes a tiny wound with one fang before taking a sip...and it tells him what he needs to know.

He flys between Mina and Meg before addressing the largest conglomeration of bats.

"Mina, really. This is foolish and uneccessary. Please stop before you hurt Meg or Val or anyone else. I like you. I don't want to have to hurt you."

"What's with the flying vermin", Asar-Suti says casually, coming by to collect swarming bats from the air. He'd rather talk to people, but these creatures make a terrible hgih-pitched voice so you can't hear yourself. He has a bunch of bats clenchend in his left hand like a bunch of very, very irate holly twigs, and keeps adding the ones he catches, grabbing them all by a wingtip.

He sees Meg. Somebody he knows. "What do I do with these?"

When one of the bats bites him seriously on the finger, Asar-Suti lets go the half-dozen or so that he had with a yelp.

He looks at the animal balefully, not going to risk his fingers again.

*And suddenly Andrew's there, his face white.*

-- the hell? Anthy?

*He shouts at the swarming bats:*

Leave her alone!

In a thoroughly different continuity, Roland sees lots of bats...and Meg, and Joe.

He doesn't look happy. But does he ever?

He gets up from his table and approaches the group. His hands are by his sides. Just in case.

Joe's just drawn his gun and is pointing it at the purple-flickering guy. "Let her go."

If you blink, you miss Roland drawing his own revolver.

He and Joe look...similar. Very similar.

Val looks, from the god, to Joe, to the bats, and puts her hands on her hips, in an unconscious immitation of Frustrated!Meg. "People, all of you! Stop! This is no frelling way to act! Put that gun -away-, Joe. Asar-Suti, these bats are actually one of my friends, and I would very much appreciate it if you would realease her. Mina, STOP IT! Calm down, Everyone!" Her voice is commanding, stern, but also quite frustrated.

Put the guns away!

*Meg's voice rises even shriller. She glances over at Andrew, her face anguished, then away - there's no time for that.*

If you want to stop her stand around the table, she's going for Anthy, if she can't get at her maybe she'll come back to her senses, and Joe you want her back to her senses so just do it!

*Anthy is under the table. So are bats. So are little chunks of Anthy, separately.*

-- Right, do what she says -- Val, Nick, come on --

*He's suiting action to word, setting his back to the table, shoulder-to-shoulder with Meg.*

Uh, hey.

When Asar-Suti lets the bats, Joe's gun disappears into its holster. He doesn't really hear what Val and Meg are screaming as anything but a roar.