[Video] - July 17th

[guitar_case_vagabond]

[Raye's been absent from school for the past couple of days and anybody who knows her usual haunts would have noticed she's been gone from them as well. As soon as she shows up on video the reason becomes apparent. She looks like somebody who lost a fight with a truck. There's a few day old fading bruises, scrapes and at least one bandaid on her cheek just under her left eye.]

Hey, so, uh, good news I figured out that shit with my superpowers so back to normal there. Bad news is I kinda broke part of the Dead District.

[She doesn't seem that worried about it though as she reaches over to retrieve... a lemon and takes a bite right out of it, skin and all, and chews away without giving a single fuck. This next part was the tough bit.]

Anyway, I'm back to full power and everything but I figure I could use some practice. So, if there's anybody out there who knows swordfighting and shit, let me know.

[She pauses for a second, like she wants to say something else to someone in particular then just makes a quiet noise and switches the video off.]

Comments

[Video]

[radiantchicken]

I know swordfighting!

[Why, yes, this is a ten-inch-tall parrot with scaly reptilian arms, hello.]

But...if I might ask, what, exactly did you do to the Dead District?

[Should the parrot be concerned? He is concerned.]

[Video]

[guitar_case_vagabond]

[Hold on, just... staring for a second. Because talking parrot with lizard arms. That knows swordfighting.]

....

[Fuck it. She takes another bite of her lemon.]

Cool. You teaching classes or anything?

[And then at his question she shrugs.]

Got in a fight.

[originaloddcouple]

RAYE!

ARE YOU OKAY BUDDY?!

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[ ... ]

Did you do what I think you did?

[Video]

[charcoalfeather]

[See your friend.

See your friend looking worried to death.]

Uh....

[What does she even say?]

[guitar_case_vagabond]

[Wow. Right away with the yelling.]

Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Just taking a breather for a couple days, that's all.

[She just got a little wrecked in a super battle. No big deal.]

[guitar_case_vagabond]

[Oh man, that is a scary look.]

Um... maybe?

Look, she called me out.

[Video]

[guitar_case_vagabond]

[Jeez, Rakka.]

Hey, don't give me that look.

[She manages a small grin.]

It looks way worse than it is.

[alilyinthemoonslight]

[ It damn well should be. ]

My sister once nearly got killed going into the Dead District hunting for pulses.

Raye, were you out of your mind?

[originaloddcouple]

Are you sure?

It sounds like things were pretty dangerous!

[wonk]

buddy i think the dead district broke u right back

like "some" is kinda an understatemnt u kno

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[duette]

[ Look who's finally decided to emerge from the woodwork, after a quiet couple of weeks — and by quiet, we mean a raging mess of stress baking and shitty feelings about her brother no longer remembering anything. At first, she instinctively goes for the phone option. Believe her, she would just love to show off the spectacularly unimpressed look on her face, but she doesn't quite trust herself enough to keep it up.

Good thing her voice carries her feelings on this quite well. ]

What did you do.

audio

[dragon_blossom]

It's just the Dead District.

[ ...she sounds pretty unbothered too, but that's totally Thundercorpy or something now so w/e. ]

I've got a sword and I know how to use it, but I can't exactly cut a city block in half or whatever bullshit you can do, so go easy on me if you want to try practicing.

...and what the fuck was that with the lemon?

Video;

[the_fist]

...What, do you have scurvy or something?

Video

[imbibing]

[Huh. Misato blinks at the screen.]

What kind of powers do you have that left you looking like that?

[A beat.]

I don't know anything about swordfighting or anything, but there's a fencing academy a few blocks away from my apartment. You should probably check them out.

[She provides the address and telephone number.]

[Video]

[charcoalfeather]

[Totally still giving her that look.]

It still looks pretty bad. Saretha was really beating you up at the start of the fight.

[It was all still pretty vivid in her mind.]

[guitar_case_vagabond]

I wasn't looking for pulses. Queen Bigmouth finally got her supersuit and wanted a fight.

[Is she about to admit that a good part of that "fight" was her getting kicked around? Not likely.]

Video

[guitar_case_vagabond]

Fencing, huh? [She looks thoughtful. She's not sure that fencing is really going to help with the Scissor Blade but... it's probably a start.] Thanks.

[She takes down that number and address then sits back a little to consider her question, shrugging a bit.]

Usual magical girl shit, I guess. Transformation, weird outfit, superpowers. [She gestures toward her face.] This is from a fight.

[guitar_case_vagabond]

[Damn, she just had to say it like that, huh? Even if it is pretty true.]

Yeah, well.

[Her eyes shift to the side, narrowing. Just off screen, she clenches one bruised hand into a fist.]

It's not gonna happen like that again.

[If it sounds like she means for there to be a "next time." Well....]

Audio

[guitar_case_vagabond]

[Yeah, see? Nothing of value was lost.]

I don't think I could do more than, like, half a building right now. [Even that might be a bit of an exaggeration. She can crater the fuck out of a city street though.] But, sure, I won't use any super strength if you don't try to drown me in water dragons.

[Go easy on her, she says. Raye has no idea how to use a sword.]

[She pauses, picking up her lemon again.]

What? It tastes good.

[guitar_case_vagabond]

'Course I'm sure.

[Taking another bite out of that lemon. Aggressively.]

That wasn't the first time I got into a fight, y'know. And those snakes were way bigger.

Video;

[guitar_case_vagabond]

Huh? No.

[Taking another big bite of lemon over here, don't mind her.]

The fuck're you asking that for?

[She's not even doing that puckering face people do when they eat something real sour.]

[guitar_case_vagabond]

bite me

[Get outta here with your "truth" and your "realtalk" Roxy.]

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[guitar_case_vagabond]

[It's been even longer than that for Raye. She hasn't heard from Harper since that fight with the digital pet... thing, which brings up a new mess of emotions. On the one hand ugh, here comes the nag express, but on the other... she can't help but feel that she still owes her one from back then.]

Don't worry about what I did. The point is that crap from last time isn't gonna happen again.

[charcoalfeather]

[While she didn't mean to say it in a way to offend her, that was what basically happened for the first part of the fight until things changed. Seeing her friend get messed up like that was a little traumatic.

Rakka briefly looked away, eyes falling away from the screen, and Raye.]

I was... really worried.