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[slayer_fray]

After her morning check-up of Bound status, Mel leaves with the Bar the following note:


Call me paranoid, but tabs don't tend to get randomly paid off by amounts that large without reason. Would you like to talk?

- Mel Fray

Then she grabs a chocolate milkshake and a big plate of nachos, takes a seat at a table near the Bar with a good view of the rest of the bar, and kicks back with her feet up, waiting for something interesting to happen.

Summary: Mel meets Akito and fills him in on the Milliways intro stuff. Mace Windu also gets the intro, before conversation turns to comparative worlds and Slayers vs Jedi. Ray thanks Mel for killing the Hellfly.

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[shipscook.livejournal.com]

Akito limps past, then pauses for a second.

Purple hair.

He takes a second look. No, not Megumi. Damn.

"Excuse me, miss? Do I look, uhm, --" Howtosayithowtosayit "-- crazy, to you? Visibly out of my mind?"

[slayer_fray]

Mel gives him an appraising look.

"Not visibly, but the most spun aren't obvious, are they?

"You feelin' crazy?"

[shipscook.livejournal.com]

Akito looks embarrassed to be possibly crazy. "I fell asleep in my bunk on the ship last night and slammed my knee against a table here when I woke up on one of the couches, I just mistook Death for a friend of mine, and I'm in a bar where people are telling me not to have... uhm." He goes reddish in the cheeks.

"I'm pretty sure I've gone as nutbar as the captain has."

[slayer_fray]

"Ah, right," Mel nods. "Um, Milliways tends to do that to people.

"You're no more spun than you were before, probably. This place is just... wierd. By anyone's standards."

Mel works for a fish and is sleeping with an ex-turtle. She has high standards of wierd.

[shipscook.livejournal.com]

Akito looks hesitant, but... "Okay. So I'm not wiggin' out over here?" He takes a deep breath.

"Okay. I was worried... with all the stress and all lately..." He shakes his head and smiles. "Uh, sorry to bother you, miss. I just needed to be really sure I wasn't..." he waves a hand in the universal symbol for "flipping out".

[slayer_fray]

"Nah, you're jake," she assures him. "So someone told you the rules then, I take it?"

[shipscook.livejournal.com]

Akito smiles, on a bit more stable ground now. "Actually, I'm Akito. Akito Tenkawa." He offers a hand-wait-no-notthathand... Ahem. He tucks one hand behind his back and offer the other to shake. "Yeah, they were run past me. Is this really a bar?"

Which is a fantastically doofy question, considering the tables, chairs, big -bar- over there...

[slayer_fray]

Mel smirks at the misunderstanding and doesn't correct him.

"Mel Fray. Goodta meetcha. And yeah, it is. At the End of the Universe."

[shipscook.livejournal.com]

Is he going to?
Could he not?
Yes he is.

"Which end?" Akito inquires, in all open innocence.

[vaapadmaster.livejournal.com]

Maybe the tall strong man in jedi robes, missing right hand, is interesting? He comes down stairs, and moves first to the Bar.

[slayer_fray]

Not that Mel knows what Jedi robes are. She watches him casually, waiting to catch his eye.

[vaapadmaster.livejournal.com]

He does glance around the bar, as looking for someone.

[slayer_fray]

When his glance falls on her, mel catches his eye and nods in greeting.

"Hey."

[vaapadmaster.livejournal.com]

The man nods back. "greetings." He has a nice, deep baritone voice, the voice of a leader.

[slayer_fray]

Mel has a New York accent and no apparent leadership qualities at all.

"You new? Don't think I've seen you around."

[vaapadmaster.livejournal.com]

"I arrived last night." A brief nod

[slayer_fray]

"Right. Welcome to Milliways," she smiles in a welcoming way. "Someone been over the rules with you?"

[gone_byebye]

Having received his lunch and his note, Ray looks around a bit until he spots someone who looks like she might be Mel Fray, and heads towards her. "Um, hello?"

[slayer_fray]

"Hey," Mel grins and nods. "Ray, right?"

[gone_byebye]

Ray nods, holding up one scar-striped hand. "That's me. Um, it was me who did the- who paid the Bar for you. Sort of. I didn't know it was you at the time."

[slayer_fray]

"Oh, right," she gives a puzzled smile and slides her feet off the table to let him sit should he wish to.

"You just feelin' in the mood for random giving?"

[gone_byebye]

"No, no," Ray says. "There's been a plague of sorts going around the bar-" He sits down. "THanks. Anyway, I was sort of appointed temporary Bar epidemiologist so that I could chase down what was causing people to have massive personality and physical changes, and I'd just traced it down to a demonic fly that had escaped from containment. When I came into the Bar last night I got a PKE reading on the fly's signature and I followed it to over there-" He points towards the pillar of last night. "-where I found the Hellfly, dead, run through with a pin. So I gave the Bar my best photonic crystal and asked it to please put that towards the tab of whoever did the killing."

[slayer_fray]

She looks at him, confused, and slowly realisation dawns as she remembered.

"That fly was evil? What is it with this rutting place?"

[gone_byebye]

Ray smiles wryly. "You didn't know? I thought for sure someone'd done it on purpose. Nice job, regardless. Ran that thing right through without the slightest bit of crush."

[slayer_fray]

She frowns. "I was supposed to be on the lookout for evil flies? Did I miss the Security memo again?

Her head connects with the table as she groans. "I'm so bad at my job."