TRAVEL ♔ you and i where it started tearing down all the walls and love the chaos

[shootfirst]

♬ My Heart Still Beats For You - Anna Ternheim

WHO || Kat, Gar, Dumage, Myri, Buffy [Closed]
WHAT || The Flight to Venice
WHERE || ON AN AEROPLANE
WHEN || Monday, July 2nd [Backdated]
HOW || Actionspam

[[This log is for any in-flight interactions on the Knight's plane ride to the mission site. Feel free to make your own threads/threadjack, etc. The flight time is approx eleven hours. Get to know your teammates, talk about the mission, ask questions, etc. etc.]

Comments

[slay]

And she's funny, too. [ that gets a little bit of a forced smile, but it fades. because she should be not-touchy. ] It wasn't exorcisms exactly. Just ... [ she purses her lips in thought a moment, then takes a leap. ] You do magic, right? So, you should--I mean, what's your take on all this stuff? "Invisible demons" or whatever.

[shootfirst]

Plenty of monsters out there can go invisible. Doesn't mean I believe in... demons in the like... Biblical sense. But I mean, I guess we know there are hell dimensions, if the clerics aren't full of bullshit, so I suppose whatever lives there counts as demons.

[slay]

But, what about in this dimension? You know, like if they crossed over somehow, or ... I don't know. [ she shakes her head. ] Do you think they're here? Not like ... here-here, or right now-here, but ... Think about it. Spike and a whole bunch of others keep coming through the Veil. There's gotta be some badness slipping from dimension to dimension too.

[shootfirst]

Anything's possible. But I don't know that I'd classify them as different from monsters from the Shadow World. Just one more messed up thing that needs to get put down if it's evilling about town.

[slay]

What about the people who do that? [ it's more wary now. ] Like, uh, demon fighters. People who track these things down and do, um, do kill them. Ever run across one of those? I mean, it's kind of like how you were saying about Hellsing, right?

[shootfirst]

I can't say I've met somebody whose card read 'demon hunter'.

What's got you harping on all this, anyways? Is this about Spike?

[slay]

What? [ she blanches a little bit, then realizes the why of that connection. ] I -- No. No, this is ... We are all aware that I have entire days of my life in which I don't think about Spike, right?

[shootfirst]

Well, it's just that last time you had Hellsing and demons on the brain...

[slay]

[ she gives a kind of sigh because this is so different kat you don't even know. she looks dismissive and exasperated in a way that just wants the dealing with this part to be over with. ]

This is--[ different? could she sound more petulant child? ] It's not about that. Just forget it. It's ... it's stupid.

[shootfirst]

But now my interest is all piqued.

[slay]

There's nothing pique-worthy. I was just ... curious. That's all.

[shootfirst]

Well, far be it for me to trample all over your demon ... researchy... fun times... [ (unsure) ] Should I let you get back to it?

[slay]

No! No, you don't have to--I wasn't really finding anything good anyway. [ she scoots over so kat can take the seat beside her on the aisle side. ] Talking's better.

[shootfirst]

[ kat plops her butt down when buffy makes room ]

I don't suppose anybody's warned you about Italy yet, have they?

[slay]

Warned me about what in Italy? [ her brow promptly furrows, perplexed by the lon glist of badness that could be coming. ]

[shootfirst]

Well, the country's sort of got this rep for being severely anti-Shadowkind. As in, Shadowkind live there, but there's a lot of prejudice against them. So it's usually better to keep that kind of thing on the down low - even if you're a human from another world.

[slay]

Got it. Super-Buffy kept to a minimum. [ there's a certain exaggerated soldier-y-ness to the way she says it. ] Why are they so anti-Shadowkind?

[shootfirst]

Bad historical experiences, probably. Dark elves, monsters, that sort of thing. And I know there was a huge influx of elves at one point, and it really put people on edge.

[slay]

Huh. Guess if sense was supposed to be applied to it, it wouldn't be racism.

[shootfirst]

It's the ugly half of the job.

[slay]

But, this gnoll we're going to see. He's a Shadowkind, right? So, then how's he all ... popular entertainment business guy if the whole country hates him?

[shootfirst]

I'm guessing he's one helluva business man.

Either that, or he travels with a lot of heavies to keep from being harassed. Probably the latter, so I'm guessing getting to see him might not be easy.

[slay]

... This isn't gonna be undercover, is it? [ there's dread in her voice as she realizes it's a legitimate concern. they had, after all, brought dumage along. ]

[shootfirst]

It'll probably have an element of it, at least. But if we can get this guy alone, I see no reason to not just cut to the chase and drill the info right out of him.

[slay]

You know, I had it on good authority that this job would be mostly compromised of saving people and hitting things.