Baiken

[rosebleed]

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[rosebleed]

It does. I mean, you could have lost a limb, too.

[She's pleased to see her so calm, actually. Charles told her she might be difficult to get any kind of treatment for, and Rosamund doubts she'd get her there either by the carrot or the stick. Especially not the stick.

It's better to just gauge any hidden damage first. Then proceed with what to do.

For now she takes a seat at her side, keeping a respectful distance.]

I got some snacks too, in case you're hungry. I see you've already cleaned up.

[kabari]

Thoughtful of you. [ she's about to lift her arm to smoke but seems to realize she is still holding the water bottle. hm. putting that aside. ]

But I'm fine. I've had worse.

[rosebleed]

[Her eyes flick at once to the arm. Curious. Very curious.

But also not wanting to make herself so obvious, Rosamund takes a bag of chips and a bag of chocolate cookies and sets them both at the other woman's side. Sweet or salty, both can be hers.]

Just because things could be worse doesn't mean they can't be better.

What happened in there?

[kabari]

[ rosamund... sweetie...

baiken eyes the sweets impassively, then retreives her kiseru once again. i guess this is the worst fitting obi in the world so she can produce a lighter and re.. light it... look i'm an ignorant rper i don't know how smoking pipes work. ]

Had to go through hell to get some kinda Bough. Can't speak on the other three, but Throné and Ichiban struggled with it. [ this is not said in a disparaging matter, just matter-of-fact. it's hard! hell sucks!!!! ]

You're better off makin' sure they're okay than someone like me.

[rosebleed]

[i'd believe anything you told me tbh she should smoke as much as she wants.]

Oh, yes. Well, lots of people are helping them. Everyone rushed in all at once, so. I thought I'd look for you.

[It feels too weird to sit here without doing something, especially once the pipe comes out again. Last time Lucien lent her a cigarette she'd nearly choked to death so that's probably not on the table. But she still has many snacks in her lap! One couldn't hurt.

Delicately she peels a corner off a bag of gummies and takes a wee red bear for herself.]

Bough as in a tree branch? Was it sacred, or magic of some kind?

[kabari]

[ girl stop being so weird about your snacks. baiken pushes the bears closer. take the damn bears. ]

Somethin' like that. Funny thing is, no one actually told us. Then when we got to it, touching it made some giant building with a leg appear. So we got into that car and got brought back.

[ some... how... ]

[rosebleed]

[Oops. But okay she will nibble while Baiken smokes. This is fine.]

A giant building with a leg?

[Okay. Um. Very far-fetched but not totally out of the question...]

It wasn't a sort of hut with chicken legs, was it?

[If anyone could make it here out of sheer will power and spite, only to torment whoever they found? It would be the Baba Yaga.]

[kabari]

Much bigger than a hut, but you have the right idea. We were about the size of its toenails.

[rosebleed]

Really?

[Okay different walking building, nevermind. No saviour in the guise of a mercurial hag today.]

And you were able to escape alive? That's incredible. Really, I have a friend who's fought giants before, it's no easy feat.

[kabari]

Fighting is all about knowing yourself. [ a pause to tag a drag. ]

We weren't gonna win against that thing, and the car was faster anyway. Then I'm sure you saw us get thrown into the theater. Or heard about it, anyway.

[rosebleed]

That's very wise. [She takes a beat as well. Pause for gummy.]

Is that what hurt Throné and Ichiban? Or was there something else you had to fight?

[She doubts that the woman is secretly nursing a wounded arm from just running away.]

[kabari]

There was a monster. Down in the depths of this building we were in... It was dark, and that thing was fast.

That wasn't the only thing. There was a lot of fighting going on at the end, but I wasn't watchin' them then.