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Feb 10, 2008 04:15

Piotr and Kate will be heading back to their world, soon. Back to the Mansion, and back to the war ( Read more... )

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joiningyousoon February 10 2008, 09:33:11 UTC
Nearly before she has dampened the flames, Maya knows that there is someone else out here. A man, she sees in the split second's afterglow left by the fire. A very big man.

She is less worried about his size, however, and more about--

"Goddammit, I'm sorry," she calls, and the apology sounds (and is) very sincere. "I didn't see you there." She takes a few steps, her boots crunching in the snow, and she leans on the still-warm rock, looking into the darkness. "Are you alright?"

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steelartisan February 10 2008, 09:45:07 UTC
"Da, I am fine." His answer is quick and reassuring, and faintly accented with Russian.

As is hers, which is part of the reason that first word was in Russian. (The other part is that Piotr throws Russian words into his English a lot. But he's not totally sure of how the Bar's translation spell works, sometimes.)

"I should be asking you, I think."

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joiningyousoon February 10 2008, 09:54:21 UTC
Maya's eyebrows lower, then rise, at the sound of the familiar accent. She smiles, faint and tight and rueful, down at the scorched rock, then out at the man.

"I'm fine," she says. Furious, but fine, but this is a stranger and she doesn't say that; she just takes a deep breath and forces Volkov (the butcher, Volkov the son of a b--) from her mind as best she can.

"Of course, I can't say the same for the rock."

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steelartisan February 10 2008, 10:03:01 UTC
With faint amusement, "It has been there a very long time."

"I think it will be all right."

"And if not..." He shrugs, amiably, though he doubts she can see it in the darkness. The moon is only a sliver, though the stars are bright; he can make out her form against the snow, but indistinctly, and the afterimages from that flameburst don't help. "It is an object at Milliways. These things happen."

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