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Fox in a bar.

Or rather, asleep at the bar, head on her arms as she dozes. There is a half empty bowl of miso soup close by, and a small plate of veggie tempura untouched as well. This is from her request of food that wasn't red or bleeding. That is a bit hard to manage when one of your friends was in the infirmary doing a chest-explody thing from little alien parasites every few minutes- But as it was, Laini started dozing before she could even finish eating.

It has not been a good last couple of days.

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Mordred can, sometimes, be nice.

This is why she gets a blanket drapped over her shoulders.

[ooc: it's alright!]

"Ack. I'm awake, really." Laini mutters, ears twitching. She pulls the blanket tighter, and cracks open one eye, peering at Mordred.

"Sure you are, sweetheart."

He looks at her back, golden eyes sharp.

"... Well, put it that way, and I should be trying to catch up on my sleep." She muffles a yawn, then eyes her food with a sigh.

"Take some time to recover. ... Still hard to do."

"Can I ask what's the matter?"

Still being polite. Blame Ako.

Her ears flatten, and she pokes at the pile of cold tempura.

"... Some fucktard put a curse on a friend of mine, causing alien parasites to explode out of his innards. He wanted to kill himself, or have one of us kill him- we got a doctor insted and thought we got them all out of him, without killing him. The real evil twist on the magic? The little buggers keep coming back. Over, and over and over again. He got a gun, and shot himself in the head. ...

"The magic regenerated him, and keeps bringing him back after the chest-bursters should have killed him. Its been a couple days solid of that, never ending."

She mananages a bitter smile up to Mordred, pain in her eyes.

"And how are you doing?"

"Catching my breathe after a shitty couple of weeks."

Softly,

"You really do need sleep, miss."

"I was also supposed to eat too, but..." She shakes her head.

When you are of a species that regularly chows down on various small rodents, and you have a problem with meat? Things are pretty bad.

"Sorry things have been bad for you." It is sincere.

"Maybe just try plain bread? I could never face a lot of meat or such things after battles."

A little shrug.

Her lips twitch slightly, and Laini nods, pushing the cold miso soup and tempura away. They disapear, and a plate with a couple of slices of raisin cinnamin bread with apricote preserves appear in their place.

"Seems she agrees. ... I'll try."

He smiles.

"Good. And oh, I'm Mordred by the way. Ako's semi-adopted me."

Laini blinks, and smiles faintly. "She's mentioned you- it's nice to finally meet you. I'm Laini. I work for her, in the mapping labs."

"Ah, cool." He grins back at her.

"Usually its quite warm." Her tail twitches slightly and she hides a grin, nibbling on the bread.

"In the Furhold?"

"Yep." She chuckles faintly. "Only enough snow for the effect, when we want it. One of the benifits of living in your own realm- things are how you like them."

"Yeah, I can imagine."

"Have you gone to see any part of Underhill yet? Furhold?" She tilts her head, curious.

A little shake of his head.

"No."

"When all of this is over-"

It has to finish sometimes soon, right?

"I'll have to see about me and Ako taking you on a trip."

He nods.

"That'd be very nice, thanks."

She grins faintly.

"Particularly since Underhill isn't Earthside, Mordred. Spirit Realm. Being a ghost doesn't matter as it would on Earth."

He grins back.

"Oh, good. Being a ghost on earth sucks."

Laini nods, chuckling. "I remember that feeling. Until we get five tails, we can't quite be there all the way ourselves."

"What's it like? Having more tails? I was Kitsune for Halloween."

"Well, it takes skill to get them. Proving yourself as well. Its... hard to say how you get them in general, because its different for each tail, each kitsune. But what they do-"

"Well, you live longer. Get up to nine, and you're just about immortal. Harder to kill as well. More power, and you can interact with earthside more and more."

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Nita sympathizes. But the bar's not really the most conducive place to rest.

Thus, she's sitting next to the fox, shaking her gently, and proffering a cup of coffee.

Her ears flatten, and Laini cracks open one amber-colored eye.

"...'s time?"

"No, Duo's with him right now. I just thought you might prefer to get some sleep in a room rather than on a barstool."

She offers a very small smile.

"Would be nicer, yes. Just thought I'd try to eat first, but it didn't quite work that way." Laini pokes at the cold tempura, then looks at Nita.

"How are you holding up?"

She grimaces. "Yeah, understandable."

She sighs. "Oh, you know -- feeling kinda useless, but otherwise. . ."

"Sit, watch, and clean up. Yeah, I know." Laini mutters, picking up the cup of coffee.

"... I thought for sure we got everything the first time. A spell like that-" She frowns, ears flattening.

"If we ever find out who did it. . ."

"We then see how they handle executions here." Laini sips the coffee, calmly.

"Aren't quite enough laws that go across all the realms in Underhill to say that sort of thing is a capital offence. Its more of common sense. Someone starts using magic for that sort of thing, you get rid of them."

Nita nods. "I'm just glad that sort of thing can't happen on my world."

"... You're a wizard. Is magic different where you're from, then? Granted, it smells different than other types here, so.."

"It's gifted, not inborn. Doing stuff like that gets it taken away from you."

"Ah. Good to know. Who was it that said, 'with power comes responsibility'? It doesn't have as much punch when most of the population can do stuff like that, but... eh."

Laini takes a deep breath, and another sip of coffee.

"I'm tired. I ramble. Sorry."

"It's okay. None of us are really at our best."

She lays a hand on the Bar and orders herself some tea. As it appears, she adds, "How do you know him?"

Her lips twitch in a faint smile.

"Met him here. He was putting a wham job on the possessed kareoke machine they have here. We dragged each other off- he has very talented hands."

She snorts.

"More than I needed to know, but gotcha."

"That wasn't even close to too much info, really." Laini grins, tail twitching, but (thankfully for Nita) does not go into more.

The kitsune works on her coffee, before needing to head back to the infirmary.

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