Red Derived From Black

<span style='color:purple'>If anyone's sorry it should be me.</span> She said, mentally rattling off everything she had done that night to be sorry for and what she could have done differently.

She thought she felt Korif but up a block on his mind, but it was gone almost as soon as she had realized it was up so she wasn't all that sure. As he spoke briefly of his world view she nodded. She knew what it was like to cut out the meaning of everything that wouldn't help you succeed or would not suit you. She'd done it herself, just cutting out different views and being influenced into adding others.

<span style='color:purple'>I understand.

I think...</span>

 

<span style='color:purple'>The other voice of yours really needs to learn some manners.</span> She said matter-of-factly. There was no use in getting worked up over it, the other voice was right afterall. Korif didn't need her, she'd knocked him over in the Black Market and then caught the attention of thugs and then she'd wound up here.

<span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span>
<table class='ooc'><tr><td>For all the thinking i do i have no idea what to write -_-"</td></tr></table>

 

<span style='color:purple'>Oh crap... I should have left before now.</span> She said eying the red streaks spitefully. There was no way she'd make it back to the east hemisphere with the sun that far up even though it was not very far a long. She calculated the distance from approximately where she was to the apartment she was free to use. About 30 minutes in the morning bustle. That wouldn't work too well.

<span style='color:purple'>I probably seem like some overbearing brat or something, but I can't go out in that.</span> She said, gesturing to the creeping rays of sunlight.

She really should have left when she was sure Korif had dozed off, left a note or something, figured out where the place was and then come back some other time. Oh well, too late for that.

 

She got up and put a paw in her pocket to take out her phone. She flipped open the small device and turned it on. The screen glowed blue as she pressed a few buttons. The screen now read "Missed Messages: 4" She sighed at the number and checked the numbers for them. The school, and three numbers she'd never seen before.

Leah put the phone back and shivered a bit. She walked over to the chair and pulled on her coat, getting the low back so that it didn't interfere with her wings. She wasn't all that intent on leaving. If she remembered right the tunnles were not the best place to travel reguardless of who you were or what you looked like. More than a few tainted Drakons had nested there last time she'd been through, thriving off of the dirty water and corpses of who or what she did not want to know.

<span style='color:purple'>It's really your final say because it's your place, but would you mind if i stayed?</span> she asked.

She let her eyes travel to the pistol, she didn't see the note laying on the table so she assumed that it was an older weapon of his and wondered why he hadn't been carrying it with him yesterday.

 

Leah was greatful to say the least when Korif told her that she was allowed to stay. When he cracked his back Leah shuddered and shook her head, in all her years she had never gotten used to the sound of cracking joints, nor had she ever come to terms with it.

She thought for a moment on if there was anything she needed to get, nothing that she knew off the top of her head, a pen or pencil and a sheet of paper would have been nice, but they weren't necessary in the slightest.

She watched as Korif checked the ammo in the gun and then set it down once more and flexed his hand and the arm covered with the pauldron. She was still curious as to why he said at times he felt like he couldn't get it off, it just seemed a bit off to her.

Leah zipped her jacket half way to keep out some of the cold air that she still proclaimed to herself did not matter to her at all, after all she was dead wasn't she?

<span style='color:purple'>Nope, nothing I need to get and nothing I need to do. Although if I could find a pencil or something and a sheet of paper that still had empty space on it that would work out okay.</span>

 

Leah nodded as he went off through another wall, she really did want to know what magic had been used to make the walls as they were, it was probably a simple illusion enchantment that a child could have pulled off. She smirked to herself as she thought this and then dug through to box in search of a writing utencil and a fairly clean sheet of paper. Once having done that she drew a decent sized square on the sheet and then divided it so that it was 9x9 smaller squares. In random places she placed various digits making sure that she did not have any of the same number in the same row, coloumn, or 3x3 section. When she finished that she looked at the self-made puzzle for a bit and then filled in the missing numbers so that when she finished there was only 9 of each number and no number was in the same row, olomn or 3x3 section. She then flipped open her phone for the time and wrote across the top:

<span style='color:purple'>Sudoko Time: 14 min 36 sec</span>

She smiled at one of her better times and then got up leaving the sheet and pencil on the table. She went to the wall that she had seen Korif go through and was hesitant to try and step through it, not wanting to look like a fool if the wall was solid. At last she stepped through it and let her gaze sweep the room.

 

Leah turned on her heel and followed him out. She was wishing she hadn't gone into the other part of the place to begin with, it didn't matter what Korif had said, the adrenaline, no matter how much he thought was helping in the end was probably going to winde up hurting him. To her it was just as bad as if he was using drugs seeing as how he was only giving it to himself to steal and get through the tunnels. She jogged to catch up to his long strides and reached up, putting a paw on his shoulder.

<span style='color:purple'>The Jemdrull refs would call you out on drug use for that.</span> She said, her expression cross. She wanted to get her point across with out saying it as bluntly and rudely as possible. She liked Korif, she didn't like watching him hurt himself and she viewed the adrenaline as a method of hurting himself.

 

Leah wasn't sure to be glad or not that it was only his fourth time using the stuff. She watched as he disappeared into the tunnle, gun in hand. She turned and surveyed the space, noticing for the first time that there was another piece of paper on the table. She picked it up and read over the letter quickly, it was about the gun and it was from someone named Jonas. So it wasn't an old weapon of his. Ah well, least it gave her something else to mull over. She looked around some more not wanting to see what was behind the other walls without Korif there lest she stumbled in upon something she didn't want to see.

She dug through the same box she had for the sheet of paper in search of a deck of cards. her paw closed upon a rubber-banded set and she pulled it out. SHe shuffled the cards and laid them out for a game of solitare.

It was going to be a long twenty minutes.

 

Leah looked up from redealing the cards for what seemed like the bazillionth time when she saw Korif haul himself out of the hole and sat, just looking at the opening. She dropped the deck of cards and rushed over to him. She could see he was trembling slightly as she lifted the gun from his fingers and placed it behind her a ways off.

She put an arm around him and drew him close to her. She whispered a few things to him that were rather unintellegable as ran the backs of her knuckles softly down the side of his face, fogetting about the syringe and the adrenaline for the moment. She continued her small whisperings though the words were becoming easier to hear. She spoke using the anubian language, feeling that even if Korif did not know it, it would seem at the very least somewhat familiar.

 

Leah nodded, she'd figured quite a bit could happen in her long absense from the tunnels and wasn't all that surprised when Korif told her not to go down into them. She'd been hesatent to go through them before for the reason that something like that would happen. She cursed whatever was down there mentally.

<span style='color:purple'>Shh... I'm not going down there, don't worry.</span> She said. She placed two dark digits underneath his muzzle and curled them towards her. She leaned in a bit closer and rested her head on his shoulder. Her right paw rubbing his chest lightly.