Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:50 pm**

With Sam in tow Nailah steps into a bar somewhere in Mayfair. A couple of heads are turned but it's hard to tell whether that's because of Nailah's obvious mutation or because they're somewhat recognizable to the general public. Either way Nailah doesn't seem to care right now and makes a bee-line to the bar to order drinks for the two of them.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:42 pm**

"Nice choice," she said as she sidled up to the bar.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:54 pm**

"Hopefully it'll hold." she says, though she sounds optimistic. And really, the place isn't down-trodden enough for the kind of people who'd start something.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 4:59 pm**

"As long as the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent doesn't show up here in Mayfair?"

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:08 pm**

"Hate to break it to you, but I think we're the metaphorical werewolves of London." she says as the barkeeper puts down their very un-pina-colada like drinks.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:15 pm**

"At this stage in my life, I think I can live with being something that goes bump in the night."

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:17 pm**

"I'll drink to that." she says, raising her glass.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:20 pm**

"To cautionary tales," she said as she raised her glass to Nailah's before taking a sip.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:31 pm**

"To being the guardians they never asked for." she smiles with a bit of self-deprecation before taking a sip.

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:37 pm**

"I think there's almost an instinctual, subconscious level on which... certain things are still acknowledged."

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:43 pm**

"Just as long as that's where we stay. But I suppose there's a certain almost romantic side to it. None of these people know what we turned away in that forest. And they don't need to."

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:49 pm**

"Aye. Not everyone needs to see that world with waking eyes, particularly that corner of it."

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:53 pm**

"I s'pose that's what I'm afraid of. Because I've stepped close to it, maybe too close, and I know that there's something in that abyss that's staring back at me."

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:55 pm**

"We're a part of that. We've been a part of that for perhaps longer than we were willing to acknowledge."

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:02 pm**

"No, it goes beyond that. Past where the wild things are. You must have felt it in that forest. It's slippery, vile, everything that shouldn't be. And I reached out for it..."

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:08 pm**

"I sensed it, aye."

"You're worried that you might again?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:03 am**

"It happened so suddenly. I barely thought about it..."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:07 am**

"I doubt most who fall to that know what's going on when they first touch it."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:11 am**

"Didn't stop me from... well you know..." she gestures at her head, not wanting to mention certain things in a bar full of people. "I mean I'm not consciously going to do it."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:13 am**

"Doesn't stop anyone from it, is what I'm saying."

"Worth a thought, aye?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 3:31 am**

She just shrugs and takes a rather large sip from her drink. "I'm just going to try and forget about that for now. No point speculating about something that's just going to make me spiral into doom and gloom."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:11 am**

"Not quite my point, but fair enough."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:16 am**

"I know." she smiles faintly at Sam. "I just don't want to let that cast a shadow over our evening."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:34 am**

"Sorry about that. Rather the elephant in the room, aye?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:43 am**

"Just a bit. And I know it's no certainty but being aware does... vaccinate you somewhat. That whole thing in the forest just about scared the living daylights out of me."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 11:51 am**

"But we beat it, aye? That's the point. We got it done."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:05 pm**

"Yes. And maybe I did save her through what I did. Maybe there's a point to it all even if I can't quite see it right now."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:09 pm**

"Isn't exactly vino we're having, but we'll have our share of veritas." She smiled and took a sip.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:26 pm**

She lets out a short little laugh. "As much as I can take before it gets to the point where I stop deluding myself."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:29 pm**

"Don't seem to have karaoke here, so you're likely safe." She smirked.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:33 pm**

"Oh my... Thanks, I actually did manage to forget about that." she chuckles.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:35 pm**

"Really? It was cute, in its way."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 12:38 pm**

"It's been a while. Though I was right, there was a goddess in the doorway." she grins.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:35 pm**

"Credit for believing before I did, certainly."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 1:44 pm**

"What can I say. I believed in you. Still do." she smiles.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:20 pm**

"Entirely mutual. I don't believe in lost causes."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:27 pm**

"What is it with people telling me not to give up today." she chuckles faintly.

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:31 pm**

"Seems like you need to hear it, aye?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:45 pm**

"I never intended to give up. Though it did make me wonder why I didn't and just... what used to make me keep going and if that has changed."

Posted: **Thu Mar 01, 2012 2:54 pm**

She seemed thoughtful for a moment.

"...you know, now that I think on it I want to take you to a salon, or a spa, or the like."

"Perhaps even shopping. Something frivolous, even decadent."

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