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[onlyteasing]

[ It's a town of baked brick buildings. Nothing like the trapped winter of the City: a dazzling sky, the passing citizens dark from sun and the docks not too far from where you're standing, a flash of blue and wooden slats seen from the street. The sea calls in a muted roar and a sharp salt sting in the throat

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[whackatimeline]

[OBSERVING THIS. With much disappointment.]

The nature of humans. Is that it?

[onlyteasing]

[ As Dhaos watches, one girl manages to climb atop the other, tearing at her face with small, brittle nails. The screaming never stops. ]

It ain't worth the show, boss.

[ Meanwhile, there's a hobo with his hands in his pockets in the mouth of the nearest alley, watching the faraway sea - and Dhaos, sort of. ]

[whackatimeline]

[Turning to find the source of the voice, while still keeping an eye on the fight.]

It's worth enough to observe how humans act, despite how disgraceful their actions are.

[onlyteasing]

Don't know a lotta humans, hey?

[dreamsofnoah]

[She stops to crouch near the two fighting girls, laughing and urging them on.]

[onlyteasing]

[ Sooner or later, there's a Tyki at her side, examining his pack of cigarettes. He, at least, knows better than to look at the girls directly. ]

Having fun?

[dreamsofnoah]

[She turns her back to them once Tyki turns up, not that the oddities of a dream would ever bother her.]

I was waiting for you~.

[onlyteasing]

[ And the instant she turns away, the screaming stops. The girls pick themselves up, one pressing a handkerchief to the other's eye. There's no crying, but they lean together a little as they start to stumble away. ]

Oh? I would have thought you'd go out.

[ This curse seems her sort, after all. ]

[mad_here]

[...........................stealing the goodies from that woman's basket, sorry, Tyki, a hobo's gotta make a living]

[onlyteasing]

Might wanna eat fast!

[ at Alice's shoulder, because hobos who steal badly enough to get spotted don't deserve personal space. ]

[mad_here]

[SCREAMS LIKE A LITTLE GIRL, turning around - ]

It's - maybe it's not what it looks like!

[..........and that pastry in his hand was totally there before.]

[onlyteasing]

[ good job, Alice. way to move towards the delicate Wonderland personality you should be. ]

That so. What is it, then?

poor Euphie. :(

[onlyteasing]

[ The girls' screams fade slowly as she shuts her eyes; not the dying kind, but lowering, as if the participants have lost interest. ]

That kinda thing won't work for ya outside.

[onlyteasing]

[ He's leaning on a stall not too far away, the cigarette in his hand giving off thin smoke. ]

Ain't nothin' gonna stop just by not lookin' at it. 'Cept in here, of course!

latelatelatesorry

[justcautious]

[For a while, for Chris, it really is enjoyable. It's like going on the vacation he's never been able to afford. Then, of course, there are the little feelings of wrongness, culminating in the two girls he can see through the crowds of the purposefully oblivious. Birds fight all the time, yeah, the Guv and Ray assure him that catfights happen for the most feeble of reasons but this--- He wouldn't have expected this. This seems to be taking "catfight" pretty literally. He tries to push through the crowd, it's his duty as an upholder of the law.]

Hey! Hey, stop!

[onlyteasing]

[ Everywhere Chris looks, everything he touches, seems to drive the people to turn on each other just a little. People glare, shove each other, pick pockets--

and in the meantime, the girls never falter, clawing and kicking at each other with their slick red hands. ]

Save your breath, boss.

[justcautious]

[There's a brief glance of acknowledgment for the new arrival, a confused frown at "boss"--cos that's what others are to him, not backwards like this--and then he's focusing on the crowd again, utterly confused and worried.]

I can't. They need to stop, s'not right.

[Chris is becoming increasingly aware that maybe all of this violence has something to with him, with his influence but it doesn't stop him from trying to find an opening in the crowd, to get to the girls.]

Why's this happening?!

[onlyteasing]

[ It won't be hard for him to find a way through, if he tries; the world's not stopping him, just focused on one another. ]

Just th'way it goes. Guessin' y'ain't seen this place b'fore, then.