4/17/2003
01:28
AM
Logfile
from Toshie.
Dark
Temple
Dark
passages lead in from all directions, centering upon the inner sanctum of the
shadowed temple. There is no earthly way that this structure is located under
New York City, for beyond the pillared archways are windows to a nightmarish
landscape that holds no semblance to the surface world. The tiles on the floor
depict the seven elements of the oni in seemingly random patterns that spiral
towards the center of the room. At each cardinal point, a statue of obsidian
stone rears with regal yet terrible splendor while gazing down at the tiered
diases in the very center of the room.
What
really gives proof to the fact that this is a different plane of existence
however is the open sky over the center of the temple, letting the starlight
illuminate. The sky looks strange though, the patterns of the constellations
are reversed, mirrors of the real world. Oddly enough, the sun never rises and
it never rains in here either.
Amefuri
and Gouka are here.
Obvious
exits:
Portal
Yuurin
Delicate
of presence is she; this svelte young woman of just a little over five feet is
but a wraith in form with her sinewy build and vaguely asian features. A wealth
of sloe-black hair generally descends to about mid-back, the shine of healthy
evident along her silken tresses. Feline-lilted eyes with irises of seemingly
sundered amber and flecked with pyrite's false glimmer, are rimmed with thick,
dark lashes. Pixie nose is perched over a pair of dark lips, her face accented
with cheekbones' dramatic angle only to be softened with a pair of youthful
dimples. This young woman is a sinewy sylph by all accounts with muscles borne
of an athletic life and a silent grace very well tamed.
Tiny
plaits of blonde and scarlet accent here and there in her hair, just as beneath
the jagged cut is yet more of that dramatic red to liven things up. Loose pants
of sullen indigo hang low on her hips, supported by braided leather belt that
is knotted in place. Long-sleeved, stretchy shirt clings tightly to her form,
scooping just low enough to reveal a hint of a tattoo on her shoulder. Darkened
vermilion shirt drops to just shy of pant's beltline to allow her belly-button
in the front and a tribal tattoo in the back to each play peek-a-boo. The toes
of a pair of soft-soled canvas shoes that have seen quite a bit of wear are
shown now and again from beyond the folded cuffs of her formless pants. When it
is cooler, a tan suede jacket is belted about her waist, cuffs and lapels
woolen.
An ash
grey raptor's feather dangles from a singular plait in her hair, attached with
a bead of jade.
Yuurin
appears to be 17 years, 1 months, and 7 days old.
She is
awake and looks alert.
Amefuri
Sea
foam tresses fall in soft undulating waves around shy, pixie features before
trickling to an end in the smooth caress of her lower back. Fey aquamarine irises peer out at the world
from beneath a dark fringe of upturned lashes, their unique color able to
darken like the storm tossed sea or lighten to the color of a secluded
Caribbean bay. Standing at 5'2, there's
not much to her slight frame and her waif's appearance just adds to her aura of
vulnerability. But as in most things,
appearances can be deceiving. There's
an indication of stubbornness in the tilt of her pointed chin and the firm line
of her full, strawberry lips.
Soft
earthtones in linen encases her limber frame, the paler tan wrapping around her
slim torso in a loose homespun tunic. A
darker, more earthy brown loosely envelopes boyish legs in well worn trous,
both top and bottom cut in a traditional masculine style. Dark black slippers with leather soles are
slipped easily onto her tiny feet.
Amefuri
appears to be 18 years, 5 months, and 9 days old.
She is
awake, but has been staring off into space for a minute.
Gouka
Gone
are the heavy frames, and her eyes are no longer brown, either. Instead, light
blue contacts are put in, and her red-brown hair has been released to fall
about her neck and shoulders, with two bangs hanging down in front of her face.
Creamy pale skin is now made slightly darker and her lips and eyes are
highlighted with bright deep colors, red for the lips and blue/black for the
eyes.
Adrie
is wearing skin tight, almost painted on black leather pants, shiny, like only
good leather can be. Her top is a midriff spagetti strapped blouse, and her
feet are clad in high heeled sandals, although from looking at her toes, it's
obvious she's also wearing hose. She is kept warm, however, by a slim-cut
leather jacket. The effect of these clothes on her body is rather stunning,
with the smooth skin of her stomach, and obvious curves of her hips and breasts
on display for all to see.
She is
awake, but has been staring off into space for 10 minutes.
Mina
slumps against the chains, panting as her body still spasms slightly. The rush of pain is gone, but the memory
still remains. "Amefuri," she
whispers weakly, looking away in shame.
She closes her eyes yet again as what's ahead of her sinks in. Pain that could be healed even more painfully,
torture in itself, before the cycle starts again.
Awww...did
Gouka break her? The Onisenshi smiles,
pulling away from Amefuri only enough to look her in the face. "That's a good girl. You're one of the kitten's then. Wonderful. I shall enjoy playing with you." She murmurs softly, her hand moving away from Amefuri's cheek,
slipping around her body to pull the seishi against her. "Now.
Kiss me." She orders
softly. Just to test how much pull she
has with Amefuri now. She is unaware completely
that anyone else could've walked in.
Toshie
is emerging from the temple portal in a far more sedate way as compared to the
last time she entered this place that belongs on the cover of a fantasy novel.
Head shakes from side to side though as soon as she is clear, as if clearing
her vision from the brief distortion. And her flying shadow is ever there,
winging in after the girl, turning upon pinion's point as the bird sweeps into
the temple proper. The girl is hesitating though, blinking at the sight before
her with wide eyes. This really should teach her to come down here. Not seeing
the bindings on the seishi yet, she mutters, "Oh, dear. Am I interrupting
something, Adrie...?"
"Never,"
Mina hisses back, her dazed eyes returning to glare defiantly at the
onisenshi. She doesn't have the body
control to try to move away, yet, but she won't willingly submit to Gouka's
demand. "I'd rather kiss an angry
rattlesnake. It'd probably kiss better,
too." She may be down, but she's
not out yet. "Adrie..." She repeats the name softly and then
grimaces, "Chase sends his regards."
She'll get that little dig in.
Looking over towards Toshie, her eyes widen as she spots the falcon and
she tries to send out a call towards the bird, only to be rebuffed. Confused, she looks from bird to the new
arrival as understanding sets in.
"He's yours, isn't he?"
Her chin inches up to indicate the girl's shadow. She'd be more polite under other
circumstances, but at the moment she's rather tied up.
Gouka
smiles, turning slightly. "Oh,
Yuurin!" She then turns back to
Amefuri, her eyes hardening.
"You're not interrupting anything, Yuurin. In fact, if you want to help torture this
bitch, you can." The dig hurt,
especially with how she 'felt' about Lexie.
"Is that how you want to play it, Amefuri? Soon you'll be eating out of my hand,
begging me to tie you up and treat you like my personal slave." Her hand moves back to Amefuri's cheek,
starting to glow with the sickly blackish green chi flame that is the visible
manifestation of her powers. She leans
into Amefuri, ordering again.
"Kiss me." Then she
smiles. "And if I were you, I'd be
awfully worried about your friend Chase.
Lexie's gone, and so there's no one....no one holding me back anymore,
Amefuri." Which could be a bad
thing. Just ask Reese.
"/She's/
my bond," Tosh prompts automatically, her voice rather slow as she speaks,
almost vague in reply. Her attention is clearly focused upon the sight of the
two young women, the briefest of frowns drawing down at her dark 'brows.
"Adrie... what are you doing to her?" There is a touch of unease in
her voice now, moving forward a little more towards the pair. The girl cocks
her head to the side, gaze lifting up to the wheeling falcon as if listening,
and then she is looking back to the pair, frown deepening.
"No,"
Mina returns, turning her head away. As
for Chase.. her eyes widen slightly, "What do you mean Lexie's
gone?" The question slipped out, a
moment of weakness, but she shrugs her shoulders, feigning indifference. First Rainey, then John, and now.. something
to do with Lexie. People she cares
about who's lives were messed with by the Yin gods. She can see the chi-flame from the corner of her eye, and knows
what it means, but she won't be cowed so easily. "She," the seishi apologizes without even
thinking. She doesn't usually make that
mistake, but she's also used to forming that mental connection quickly and
easily with another creature. To find
that she can't has thrown her off.
Gouka
smiles sweetly. "She
was...rejected as our Miko." Hey,
who cares if Amefuri knows, right?
"And it's too bad, Amefuri.
I would have thought you learned."
Her power lashes out again. The
upside is that Amefuri won't have a scratch on her. The downside is that she'll be wracked with pain again. While her power is lashing Amefuri with
invisible whips, she turns her head to Yuurin, smiling. "What does it look like I'm doing to
her? Mitama gave me a new toy, and I
intend to play with her, until her first, last, and only thought each day is
for me." Gouka. Evil.
Shen
alights upon the statue of Nainokami, the falcon perching neatly only to turn
one eye upon Amefuri with an almost idle gaze. "Lexie? She's gone from
us," Toshie speaks softly, again almost vague in substance, as she watches
the scene before her. And it's a very good thing she hasn't seen whatever
remains of the miko there is around here. The girl draws forward a few more
steps, reaching forward as if to place a hand to Adrie's back. "Mitama
did...?" she eases slowly, eyebrows knitting. Little, lost oni, anyone?
"Rejected-"
is all that Mina's able to get out before pain wracks her body again and no
matter how hard she tries, she can't hold in the screams. Straining against the chains again, she
can't hold back the sounds of her torment, the sound of her pain echoing around
the room until it doubles back on itself, filling up empty space.
Gouka
smiles, holding Amefuri in the grip of her power for a moment longer, then
releasing her. "Are you still
going to continue to defy me, Amefuri?"
She smiles, leaning in to the Seishi again, pressing her body against
Amefuri's hard. "I can make you
scream in pain....or pleasure, dear Mina.
All you have to do is submit to me....make yourself mine....and it can
all be yours. Do you want it? She says, stroking Mina's cheek. "Or do you want the pain?"
Toshie
startles at Mina's screaming, her eyes growing wide in amazement. "Adrie!
Don't!" the girl cries out, immediately reaching out as if to try to grip
the other oni about the waist and try to tug her away from the screaming
seishi. "Leave her alone! Please leave her alone. Don't do that to
her." Upon Nainokami's statue, the falcon simply flutters its wings once,
and then goes still again, seemingly uninterested in this all.
Tears
well up in Mina's eyes unwillingly, running down her cheeks as her head lowers,
her body turning to jelly as she slumps down again. Her breathing harsh, she shakes her head again, licking her lips. "I won't betray.. I won't
betray.." she whispers harshly, panting out each word. "I can't.." Her body trembles with the aftershocks of
the second dose of Gouka's 'healing' power.
At Toshie's words, she blinks and it takes a superhuman effort to stare
at the other onisenshi, eyes wide.
Add a
'lift her head and' in between to and stare.
Sigh.
OOC:
Amefuri yeahs, especially since there's erm.. physical reminders of what
happens when you peeve the Yin gods off around.. good thing Mina doesn't see
them. o.o
Gouka
smiles at Toshie, though her eyes are hard.
"Stay good?" She asks,
before shaking her head. "Stay out
of it, Yuurin. Or you'll end up like
her. She was the one stupid enough to
annoy Mitama. He gave her to me...and
I intend to keep her." She reaches
around Amefuri's waist, pulling her closer.
"Now kiss me...or get it again." And again, and again.
And probably still again. Gouka
is very...demented.
"No!"
Toshie yells, taking a long step away from Gouka with eyes that are narrowing.
Of all of the things to see one of the oni do before her, what Adrie is forcing
upon that bound seishi doesn't exactly warm this girl's heart. "Leave her
/alone/." Her eyes flash, and the bird is already responding to the
request from her bondmate. The falcon turns her head towards the other oni, and
Gouka will more than likely feel an almost violent tug deep inside, a tug
that'll inevitably mean the drain of her chi, her very power with the intent to
weaken.
"Iie,
Gouka
screams, not necessarily in pain, but rather, in frustration at the denial of
her pleasure. "Damn you,
Yuurin. She's /mine!/" Gouka insists, reaching her arms out and
lashing out at Toshie with her healing powers.
"So leave me alone and go back to wherever the hell you came
from." Hopefully, she'll stun
Toshie long enough to do something else to her. Except that the chi drain may be weakening her greatly.
"Iie,"
Mina cries softly, but her gaze isn't on Gouka anymore, it's on Toshie. "Please, no," she whispers hoarsely. "Don't.. please don't put yourself in
danger for me, Yuurin-san." She
watches the scene before her in horror before she makes a decision, her
shoulders slumping as tears of betrayal swim in her troubled aquamarine eyes,
whispering quietly to herself, "Gomen ne, Rath. Gomen ne." Turning a
hard gaze towards Adrie, she acquieces, "I'll kiss you, but it will mean
nothing. It will show that you have me
in your power for now, but in the end, it means nothing."
Toshie
gasps in both pain and alarm, falling backwards a few paces until her back
comes against a statue of one of the other gods. Her hands slips back to grip
it, and then she slides down to sit upon the floor. For during it all, her eyes
remains forever upon Adrie, narrowing. Gradually, the girl fills with the power
that is leached away from from Gouka, the bird channeling what is claimed
directly to her bondmate. But still, Shen watches the oni as well, continuing
to try to suck out the chi from the woman, drawing out bit after bit in a steady
stream that seems to quicken as the connection is kept. "Don't touch
her..." Her voice almost sounds far away, the girl already slipping into
Nainokami's darkness, a meditative trance to ignore any further lashing out at
her.
Gouka
slumps against Amefuri herself.
"What the hell, you miserable little bitch." Now her angry side is being unleashed. "We worship the damned Yin
gods." She attempts to lash out
at Yuurin again, this time with illness, trying to make the other oni
nauseous. "This girl...she's
/mine./ My new play thing. My new pet. Mitama gave her to me.
And you're trying to protect her?" The oni rolls her eyes, though weakly. "Stop trying to protect her. She asked for this herself."
Mina
isn't just dead meat.. she pushes at Gouka as the senshi slumps against her,
trying to throw her off balance.
"What do you know of why - Mitama, was it - why Mitama turned me
over to you," she gounds out between gritted teeth, her breath still
coming in weak pants. "And I'm
/not/ yours," she counters hoarsely.
"Whatever you do to me, you damned bitch, I'll never be
yours." And with those words, she
attempts to headbutt the woman beside her, now that she's within easy
reach. It's a weak attempt, the
seishi's body screams its protest with each movement, but there's enough force
to probably stun them both for a good couple of moments if it connects.
Toshie
was going to drop into a meditative trance, and allow the darkness to keep her
centered, but she is dragged right on back out by Gouka's words. Still filling
with the other's chi, golden eyes glare right on back at the woman, "Being
a Yin doesn't mean you have to /torture/ someone. Do /that/. That's...
horrible. Now I know why Kieran warned me from you. You-" She startles as
suddenly everything gets awfully dizzy. The world spins before her, and she is
already reaching to use the chi flooding into her without the outlet, using it
and her own healing powers to try to resolve the nausea. It still encroaches at
the edges, but the girl is picking herself back up, slowly.
Gouka
is pissed off now. /Very/ pissed
off. "Gods damn you, Yuurin! For a fool! You think we're the good guys? HA! Why else would
Sungnocha offer his power to me, a shy lonely, dyke librarian? Because he saw something vicious and dark
within me." Which became an excuse
for Adriana to become Adrie. Her chi
lashes out again, more powerfully this time, aiming for the bird. She's not sure if she can make an animal
sick, but she's damn well going to try.
"I am Gouka, onisenshi of Sungnocha, god of trickery and
deception. And if I want to keep this
loser of a seishi and warp and twist her into my slave, then I'm damn well
going to do it!" She lashes out
with her illness power again, still hoping to make Yuurin sick, while her newly
reinforced chi is strong.
Amefuri's
headbutt staggers Gouka slightly, but the woman is much to pissed off to be
deterred now, moving with the headbutt to the side, away from Amefuri. She now also has clearer shots at her opponents,
too.
Her
headbutt might have only staggered Gouka, but Mina's eyes are all swirly. @.@
Ooh, look at all the pretty stars.
If
Gouka's lash primarily a construct of chi, all Shen is going to do is absorb it
and send the power right on back over to Tosh. But the attack was enough to
send the normally complacent creature to actually startle at having an attack
focused at it, and so the drain momentarily abates. The girl flickers a glance
to her bond, only to be knocked down to her hands and knees at Adrie's newest
attack. Guess this is what happens when its your first time using powers during
a confrontation. She has no clue what she's doing. "Ooooohhhh," she
mutters, moaning slightly, and trying to heal herself clear once again.
Once
the drain abates, her power redoubles anew.
"Here, Yuurin. Let me help
you feel better." Adrie says,
focusing her powers of healing upon Yuurin.
"Sorry I make you sick.
But I'll heal you." She
smiles as she turns her head at Amefuri.
"Just a few minutes more, my darling Mina, and you'll be
mine." Her eyes harden, and she
turns back to Toshie, green/black flame erupting from her hands. "Feel the healing curse of
Sungnocha!" She exclaims, her eyes
alight with what could only be termed madness.
The
stars around Mina's head are abating slowly and as she blinks her world back
into focus, her ears stop ringing enough to hear Gouka's threat towards
Toshie. "Iie," she cries,
pulling against her chains before slumping down weakly, hanging loosely by the
top manacles as her body resists her pleas to fight on, to strain and try to
pull against her restraints. Strength
was never her forte. She can do nothing
but watch with wide eyes.
"Yuurin-san..."
Toshie
clenches her teeth shut as soon as Gouka's skills fill her, fingers digging
along the floor of the temple enough to break her nails. Well, durn, there goes
that fancy manicure she got just the other day. Her body heaves at the pain and
cry slipping from her lips, but she is immediately using her powers to rid
herself of it just as quickly. Shen screeches a raptor's note of challenge. Not
but a moment next the bird is launching from the statue and with a powerful
sweep, stoops for Gouka, talons and beak slashing for the woman's face. Again,
the girl is climbing to her feet.
Gouka
screams, a high pitched squeal of anger.
"YOU BITCH!" Her hands
go up, her concentration broken as she tries to ward off the bird's attack, to
protect her pretty face. Not very
smart, true, especially when she can cure herself, but then, Superman does duck
when they throw the guns at him.
"Get away from me you stupid animal!" She swings one arm to try and knock the bird
from the air, her powered attacks ceasing.
Mina
offers up a soft chuckle, her blue-green eyes dancing. "If you can't handle one bird, Gouka,
you're very lucky that I'm hindered here." She's not sure if Toshie can hear her, but she sends the
compliment the oni's way anyway.
"Nice falcon you've got there." She can feel the niggling of life in the back of her mind, but it
feels 'off' and she doesn't want to risk calling it forth. She's not sure she could handle whatever
would appear. Instead, she grimaces at
her own position, mentalling urging Gouka to step closer to her again.
Toshie
is shaking her head to clear it from any effects of Gouka's attack from before,
using every bit of that stolen chi from the other oni to speed her own healing.
A few blinks later and her gaze narrows upon the screaming woman. There is no
anger in her look, but possibly something of barely restrained pity. In the
next moment though, the girl slips back into a fighting stance as her martial
arts background shows itself. Meanwhile, Shen swoops off to avoid any more
swipes at her wings, finding a perch up on Nainokami's statue once again.
"Please, Adrie. Stop this now. I can help you." Healer's altruistic
side showing through. "Just leave her alone or next time I'll not just
have Shen drain your existing chi, but your permanent as well, until you have
/nothing/. Ever. Just... stop."
Gouka
glares at Toshie. "Help
me?" She screams, balling her
fists and attemping to charge her chi as high as she can get it. "Help me?" She screams again. "I /love/ what I've become,
Yuurin. I want to be like this. And now, I want to destroy you as
well." Maybe Yuurin should just
beat her. "And you'd better be
careful, Toshie. The collective powers
of Sungnocha can...and will destroy you, if anything happens to me." She isn't about to abandon her claim on
Amefuri. "It figures Nainokami
would pick such idiots for Oni. You're
trying to protect the seishi of the god in direct opposition to yours! Amefuri is one of Byakko's! Your enemy."
Toshie
seems to have completely forgotten Mina's existence, or she is simply turning all
of her attention upon Adrie at the moment. "I don't care who she belongs
to. What you were doing was... wrong, Adrie. You don't know how wrong it was.
You're sick. You need fixing." The gymnast waits for an opening before
darting forward in the middle of the other woman's words. Pivoting upon one
foot, she spins about to try to launch a kick at Adrie, purely with the intent
to disable, if not knock the woman out.
And it
works, too. Her chi weakened, Gouka is
without defense against Yuurin's physical attacks, and she staggers once,
before finally falling, face down on the hard, cold floor of the temple. She's out now, but for how long is anyone's
guess
Mina
just gasps at Yuurin's moves, impressed despite herself. If she could do things like that, she might
not have ended up chained Byakko knows where with one oni slumped down face
first and another one across from her.
She's not sure what to make of the first of Nainokami's oni that she's
met, so she wisely keeps her mouth shut and just continues to watch the woman,
her eyes slightly widened in apprehension.
Whereas before she would have trusted the other woman easily, her little
run-in with Malachai has her more wary.
Toshie
remains in stance for a moment, looking at Adrie as she hits the floor. The
young woman finally moves over to her, still a little hesitant before dropping
to her knees before the woman, pressing a hand to the other's forehead. Her
lips draw into a fine line momentarily, worry etching its way. "She isn't
going to be happy at all when she wakes up." Almost wearily, the girl
looks over to Mina, frowning, "Are you okay? Do you need to be healed?
Don't take this wrong, but you look a little ragged."
"Hai,"
Mina replies softly, still hanging limply as if her body can't find the
reserves to stand properly. She's
chained spread-eagled between the statues of Nainokami and Sungnocha but in
truth other than being worn out, there isn't a mark on her. Much thanks goes to Gouka and her 'healing'
powers. "I.. I'm.. Gouka took care
of the healing," she notes softly, wryly.
"I.. and you, Yuurin-san, are you okay?" The Byakko is blind as a newborn kitten when
it comes to sensing chi, thus she's not sure exactly what happened. But the standing oni doesn't look too badly
considering she was presented with a healthy dose of Adrie's powers.
Toshie
gives Adrie's hair a final, almost gentle pat, smoothing it away from her face
with something of a sigh. She reaches over to try to arrange the oni into
something of a more comfortable position before climbing back to her feet. She
moves over towards Mina, frowning slightly. "I'm fine." Fingers push
her now tangled hair back, her eyes showing a bit of weariness now that all of
Gouka's chi that flooded her has already been used and gone to heal. She eyes
the chain for a moment, frowning, and then looks back at Mina, "Mitama
honestly gave you to her? Really?"
"Hai,"
Mina admits, embarrassed. "I.. I'd
gone to make sure that he was okay, and.. I don't think he took kindly to a
seishi visiting him." She studies
the younger girl briefly before saying, "I.. why did you fight her? It's obvious that you care about
her." Her face hardens briefly as
she stares down at the prone form.
There's a shiver that runs up and down her entire body before she
pointedly looks away. "I won't say
that I'm not happy that you came by when you did, Yuurin-san."
"Toshie.
My name is Toshie," she responds, moving closer to Mina to peer at the
chains, and more aptly how to actually remove them. "But I don't mind if
you call me Yuurin either. I'm fine with either one." She sighs, glancing
back to her, "I've only met her once before. Well, twice I suppose. And I
care about her because she is an onisenshi, and I think that she needs help.
But what she was doing to you wasn't right at all. She's done that before. And
since Lexie isn't here to keep watch on her... I don't know." There is a
touch of worry in her voice. "You don't happen to know if there is a key
or anything, do you?"
"And
I'm Mina," the seishi introduces herself by the name that she's more
comfortable with. As for help, she just
shakes her head but lets the onisenshi hold onto her idealism, something that
she used to have in spades but now is finding that emotion hard to access. "She's done it before?" Her mouth flattens slightly before she
blinks at the other girl and shakes her head, looking abashed. "I... I woke up this way. She.. she made me dizzy in Illuminations and
the next thing I know I'm here.. wherever here is..." And here is enough to give her the creepy
crawlies still.
Toshie
blinks at the name being offered, and then she is glancing back up at the
woman. "Mina?" Realization strikes her, "Oh! You must be the one
Rathan mentioned. I think he actually wanted me to meet you." An soft smile
arrives, deepening her dimples, "Funny how these things turn out."
The girl reaches for one of the chains, giving it a few experimental tugs, and
not coming up with much of anything for her work. She sighs, and moves back
over to Adrie to see if the woman has a key, "Well, if Mitama gave you to
her, I will bet you must have done something pretty bad. I... I don't really
want to go against him, but I think you've gone through more than enough to get
whatever lesson or whatnot he was trying to give you?" Eventually, a key
is found and she is moving back to Mina.
"I
would've preferred we'd met under different circumstances," Mina can't
help but grin weakly at their situation nor respond to the other girl's soft
smile. "But Rath mentioned you as
well. He said that I'd like you. And he's a fairly accurate judge of
people." Too accurate, at
times. She winces slightly, dreading
the fact that she'll have to tell him what sort of stupidity she's gotten
herself into this time. "I.. I'd
been there before," she confesses.
"Looking for something that I'd lost," she notes vaguely. "And he shoved me into a painting, a
portal really. He.. he was a Konanese
something before." What, she's not
sure. "But it had something to do
with Suzaku." She might've kept all
of this a secret at some other time, but she's rather miffed at the man for
handing her over to a psycho. She feels
no loyalty towards him, no need to protect his secret. And it might give Toshie some leverage if
she does get called onto the table for having helped her tonight. "And being a sacrificial lamb. He had to die before Suzaku could be
summoned." Pretty sucky fate, but
now Mina's thinking that perhaps it was deserved.
Toshie
peers around for a lock, and is setting the key inside of it. A few turn and
tugs later, and it falls away, slack in the chains for Mina to get free of now.
"He did? Hopefully he said nice things about me. I kept kicking under the
table, so he probably had bruises on his shins after that." She frowns
back over to Mina, "I'd suggest then that you leave Mitama alone, because
if he gave you to Gouka... well, he must have been awfully pissed." She
sighs taking a step back, blinking owlishly at the seishi.
Mina
falls as the chains are released and only catching herself at the last minute,
her hands and knees taking the brunt of the impact. "Oif," she grunts out exhaustedly before grinning up at
Toshie. "Thank you." She looks over towards Gouka and frowns
before nodding her head, "Hai, he must have been really mad. Don't worry, it's obvious that he's doing
well and dandy with his new memories. I
won't be going anywhere near the place again." In fact, Mina's planning a new route around the building's block
for when she finds herself in that general area. Moving to sit on the floor and rubbing at her wrists, she turns
her mind to a much friendlier conversation.
"Kicking him under the table?
Well then, he must have deserved it.
He can be... trying at times."
Ha, as if she's one to speak.
"But most of the time he's lovely." The affection in the seishi's voice adds to the warmth of her
features, her eyes dancing before the light goes out of them, her shoulders
slumping. "He's not going to like
the fact that I'd returned to Malachai's gallery."
Toshie
peers down at Mina for a moment, frowning slightly, "That would probably
be best." Never mind that Tosh has been trying to work up initiative to
visit and see if he'd be willing to make her a picture for her apartment, but
she keeps talking herself out of it. She offers a hand to the seishi.
"I'll show you the way to get out of here, because if Adrie wakes up
again... it won't go all that well for you."
Accepting
Toshie's hand up, Mina nods her head quickly, wobbling slightly as she
stands. "There's a way
out?" She couldn't see one before
and she wasn't sure how she was going to elude Gouka a second time. "Please," she smiles again at the
oni before shaking her head. "I.. suppose
that meeting me like this means that you won't be able to see me as anything
but a baka seishi, ne?" Shaking
her head, she has the grace to look terribly embarrassed. "I- nevermind... which way is out,
Toshie-san?"
As soon
as Mina places her hand on Tosh's, the young woman is feeding the seishi a
light touch of healing energy, to rid of any left over aches and pains.
"There is a way out, but you have to pick the right passage. There are so
many, and if you ever get stuck down here again, I doubt you'll find it right
off." But the oni is showing her to one such tunnel, "For messing
with Mitama? Hai." Hey, she's honest. "But you know now to not do
that again, right?" She points a finger down the passage, "Through
there. You shouldn't get bugged by any of the nasties. And you'll get let out
in the subway. It was nice meeting you, Mina."
"Arigato
gozaimasu, Toshie-san," Mina bows deeply before heading up the tunnel
carefully, her senses attuned to the noises around her. At least if anything decides to try to
attack, she won't be caught unawares.
The healing touch has returned some of her stamina as well, and she
fades from view steadily, if not quickly.