[Radio]

[wolfstrike]

[The voice that comes over the radios in the evening one should recognize as Yuri Lowell, though he does sound a little strange if not a bit pissed off. Probably because he's got a bruised and swelling jaw.]

What's up with the Snakes lately? They're slacking off and being a pain more than usual. Had to break up a fight in the bar while they just sat there. They've been harassing me and my guild members lately too. Nothing physical but it's pretty annoying. Did someone ram a stick up Yunxu's ass or something?

Ow... Dammit.

Comments

[radio]

[backwordscompatible]

...any chance they were just betting on who won that fight?

[Best case scenario, tbh.]

[wolfstrike]

Yeah, no. They were definitely refusing to do anything about it.

[backwordscompatible]

Do you know anything about the fight itself? Who was involved? How it started?

[She still had some possible alternate theories to run through before crying full-on paranoia.]

[wolfstrike]

Yeah. There was some Kedan guy that was ranting about us Foreigners. My Kedanese guild members decided they weren't going to take it, and before I know it there's a brawl going on.

[For once he didn't start it! Even if he was indirectly the cause.]

The Snakes wouldn't do anything about it, so I had to.

[And judging from his voice it didn't end too well for him.]

[backwordscompatible]

[That was...one of them, actually. Suspicions. Enough for her to frown, but not out of surprise.]

So...what that tells me is one of two things.

Either they were waiting for you and the guilt to react...or else they simply don't care because they agreed with the guy. Either way, that doesn't sound good for any of us.

[wolfstrike]

Yeah. And here I thought we were doing pretty good with the Kedan too.

[For the most part the Kedan seemed to like the Foreigners now. Except for the snakes. Or maybe they just didn't like him.]

[backwordscompatible]

We all did.

Even what's-his-face was trying to play nice for a while. He still might; have you talked to him recently? Tu Yunxu, I mean specifically.

[wolfstrike]

Well I haven't had problems with anyone else, just the Snakes.

Nope, not since the salt stuff. But I'm planning to change that.

[backwordscompatible]

Yeah, but that's kind of a big problem, if it starts escalating.

[If they were lucky, this would be a fairly isolated incident. She doubted they were that lucky. If they were slightly less lucky, then the worst that would happen would be a continued apathy towards defending Foreigners. She was even less certain about that.]

...to be a fly on the wall during that conversation, though.

[wolfstrike]

Heh, well I hear he's been hanging out in front of the hotel lately. Wouldn't hurt to have someone watching my back.

[backwordscompatible]

If you're too scared to go along and want some company, all you had to do was ask.

[...she probably didn't need to add that first part.]

[wolfstrike]

Will you be my hero, Zatanna? ... Ow. Ow. Ow.

[Grinning was not a good idea right now.]

[backwordscompatible]

[...okay, that wasn't fair. How was she supposed to preen over the praise when she was too busy feeling bad for the poor guy?]

Tell you what. Before I save you from the big, bad kedan...how about I save you from yourself and get you some medical help?

In your condition, I'd be worried you wouldn't even make it to the Hotel.

[wolfstrike]

And face Raine's wrath? No thanks. Besides, I've got an angel back home that'll fix me right up.

[backwordscompatible]

Well, I was going to do it myself...but I can hardly compete with an angel, if you've got one up your sleeve.

[wolfstrike]

I kinda live with her. Didn't know you were one of those healing types too, though.

[backwordscompatible]

I don't know about a type, but yeah, I can heal.

I mean, I might not be as good as some, but it's no big to fix up a few bruises and scrapes. The catch is that, the bigger the injury, the more energy I use up at once. So you get why I might not want to advertise my services too often.

[wolfstrike]

Got it. Don't worry about it, I'll be all right.

[Hes in good hands with Dove and she doesn't have to worry about her energy draining away either. But knowing that Zatanna can do that would be good in a pinch.]

[backwordscompatible]

So who's worried?

[...maybe a little. But only a little.]