[Day: Sunday, March 31st. Time: 9:00 p.m.] [Keiko's locked in her room. Woo.] [Start] * Keiko was isolated to her room just today, and is currently wearing one of Zarina's giant Kirby shirts as she sits on her bed, hunched over slightly as she sews the hole in her dress from the bullet. [Ninjas attack! Roll init!] (No dice!) * Dicesuke has joined #mc4 2d8+7 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8+7) and gets a natural 9 for a result of 16. * RowynAway is now known as RowynSemiAway (Awesome init!) * Ardweden has joined #mc4 [Order is: Big Ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, ninja, Keiko.] (That's rough.) ( They were all hiding under your bead. ) (Wow, under the bead, not the bed? That's talent.) ( They're ninjas. ) * Keiko continues sewing because she isn't aware of the ninjas. She looks a little pale, but there's a thin frown on her face, her lips pressed together tightly. Her three plushies are on the bed behind her. [What actually happens is the door opens, and Pavla staggers in. She immediately takes a seat at the table. After tossing her shotgun onto sait table, and arches her back over the back of the chair it might look painful, but it's actually pretty relaxing.] [Yep, that's totally what happens. [ * Keiko looks up at her entrance and eyes the back arch, but she's probably done that before. She says, after a moment, "More training?" (She's got mind shield a little, right?) ( Yep ) (Just checking! Continue on.) [Pavla gets up after a minute and goes to her dresser. "Feels like I'm always training." She returns shortly with a screw driver and some spare gun parts, then sits back down and gets to work on her gun.] * Keiko replies, flatly, "You kinda are." She sighs and finishes her sewing before standing slowly. "Just like I'm always being stabbed or shot." [Pavala takes her gun apart. "I don't see what good it does to train me until I'm ready to drop. I think Gabriel just wants to see me suffer."] * Keiko takes her dress over to hang it up, then turns and looks at her. After a moment she says, "Maybe. Or maybe you have big shoes to fill for him. I don't know him really well." She frowns to herself and then goes to grab a book, one of the ones Rose gave her. "Guardians. Hnh." ["Who'd want to? He's so boring."] * Keiko manages a faint chuckle, but it sounds a bit hollow. "No accounting for taste, no..." [Pavla tinkers with her gun. "He never told me anything about himself. He doesn't talk to me unless it's to order me to do something. I hate it."] * Keiko sighs and sits across from her at the table. "I... he did lose a ward. And even seemed bothered by it." ["I know. Doesn't say much for my chances."] * Keiko glances down at her book. "Well... hating him means you wouldn't have died like Zarina did..." she trails off. ["Well, I don't think there's any danger of me falling in love with him."] * Keiko manages a slight smile. "Good." The smile slips away and she looks at the weapon pieces for a long moment. (Has Pavla been resistant to opening up to telepathy?) [Pavla replaces something-or-other and starts to put the shotgun back together. ] ( Buh? ) (Dropping the mind shield for telepathic conversation.) (It's been a couple weeks, this sorta has to be established.) ( You've kept missing each other! XD ) (Oh. Well.) (Could just ask her to.) * Keiko looks back to Pavla, then says slowly, "Could you... drop your wall?" [Pavla arches an eyebrow at Keiko. "My what?"] * Keiko puts a finger to her head. "Your... mental walls. The fences that mean I have to work to... talk to you." ["You're talking to me right now, aren't you?"] * Keiko shakes her head and says, "No, I--with my mind." ["I know what you mean. But why can't you talk to me with your voice?"] * Keiko sucks in her lip a moment, then says in a flat voice, "It's harder. It's... like trying to sing with earplugs in." [Pavla snickers. "So we're all tone deaf?"] * Keiko smiles very weakly. "You never had the ears for it." She's silent a moment, then finishes, flatly, "It's tough to miss things until they're gone." ["I wouldn't know. I don't even know anything about myself."] * Keiko nods slightly, then says quietly, "So... can you lower those walls?" [Pavla shakes her head. "Sorry, but what's easy conversation for you is... uncomfortable, for me."] * Keiko frowns a moment, then nods slowly. "I... tried to make the fight not bad." [Pavla shrugs. "I'm not upset about that. I don't know why I had to fight in the first place. Not like I was gonna win." She pauses, then grins. "Except for that one I did."] * Keiko smiles a little, then it fades away and says, "I didn't get to see." ["Too bad. I beat one of the other girls. One of yours, I think."] * Keiko nods a little. "Did she use guns and fire?" ["No, the other one. She ran a lot and tried to run me over."] * Keiko nods slowly. "Jamie. The other one is Luana." A slight smile. ["Ah."] * Keiko 's smile slips away again, and she adds after a moment, "They're such... nnh." She frowns, then says, "I'm... probably not leaving the room for a while." My guardian's a bit tired of me. [Pavla chuckles. "Heh. They're all the same, aren't they?"] * Keiko replies flatly, "The job makes the man. And the woman." She sighs and stands. "Obscurity is a weapon. They don't need it." * RowynSemiAway is now known as Rowyn * Keiko then looks over at Pavla. "They... are not all bad. But that doesn't make them good." [Pavla nods. "Guess it doesn't much matter. We're stuck here either way." She puts the gun back together. "Not like I have anywhere else to go, anyhow."] [Pavla frowns as one of the screws doesn't turn right. After a few attempts, she sighs and undoes the gun again.] * Keiko sighs too and says, "Is there--can I help you be ready for tomorrow?" ["Doubt it, unless you want to use your mind control to make Gabriel give me an easier time."] * Keiko smiles faintly. "Can't. Orders." [Pavla sighs. "I forgot, sorry."] * Keiko 's smile slips as she walks over and lightly touches Pavla's shoulder. "I was hoping I could do something to make... non-training time easier?" She sighs. "I am trying to bridge a gap I cannot see." [Pavla shrugs. "Well, if you wanna figure out why my gun keeps jamming, feel free."] * Keiko looks over at the gun, putting the book down and then leaning on it with both hands. Peer peer peer. (Raw mind, because I lack the requisite skill?) ( Go ahead ) 2d8 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Keiko (2d8) and gets a natural 6 for a result of 6. (Make by 4.) [Keiko figures the problem is in the loader.] * Keiko points at the loader and says, quietly, "This part... looks a bit bent. Might be throwing things off." [Pavla looks at it. "You think so?"] * Keiko nods a little, saying, "I'm no Luana or Togo, but... yeah, I do." [Pavla puts the gun down. "Then there's nothing I can do to fix it. Gabby's going to be mad."] * Keiko hrms. "Can't bend it back?" [She shakes her head. "I might break it."] * Keiko replies, "Isn't it already broken?" [Maybe they can fix it.] ( "" ) * Keiko is silent a moment, then says, "Well, if you can't--if there's nothing you can do, then rest for tomorrow, Pavla." [Pavla nods. "Yeah. I'm falling asleep as it is." She gets up. "I'm gonna take a shower."] * Keiko nods and touches her shoulder lightly again before saying quietly, "Okay," and heading over to her bed. [I think we can end!] (Go for it.) [End!]