Log ; ONGOING

[enkindling.livejournal.com]

When; Friday Night
Rating; PG
Characters; Mai (enkindling), Dark (charmingthief), Keith Evans (freezingly), Mao (cat_contractor)
Summary; Because mind tweaking can do the body good.
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It all boiled down to natural instinct, fear, panic -- run, everyone and everything was out to hurt her, and she had to do whatever to defend herself. She wondered why Papa had not come for her because Papa was always there, protecting her, even presenting to her that good luck charm that was supposed to protect her whenever he wasn't there.

But it was gone - he was gone.

"Papa..."

The smoke had become to thick, those screams; who did they belong to? She didn't want to be here, this crowded place without Papa.

So she ran to place where there would be no one to bother, a place that ended up to be an empty warehouse.

[ooc: :3 It doesn't have to be a lengthy log~ Just a few tags from each of us, doesn't have to be long tags. And I guess it goes, Mai, Dark, Keith, Mao etcetc.

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[charmingthief.livejournal.com]

It wasn't hard to find Mai. After all, all you had to do was follow the flames and the screams.

He flew, the smoke making way before his black feathered wings. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a familiar figure disappearing into a warehouse.

Unsummoning his wings, he walked slowly and as unthreateningly as possible towards the empty building.

[glacialis.livejournal.com]

He had been keeping a watch on Mai ever since she'd gone into her strange mental state. Having used the man-- Dark, his name was, to manipulate the image he had learned from her memories, he appeared behind him.

Dispelling the psychic barrier shield, he stood there for a bit.

"She wont stop until she sees her father."

His voice was calm as he stepped behind him. "You shouldn't risk going in and getting burned like that."

[cat-contractor.livejournal.com]

The black cat followed along a few steps behind the two humans, keeping one eye on Mai retreating into the warehouse and the rest of his senses alert for danger and for nearby animals to use as emergency escape routes.

Mao didn't really need to be here. His power would be useless in this situation and he was far too small to be of any other use. However, considering the outcry against Contractors on the network, it was better that one of their number was present for this. They didn't need to be seen as any more callous than they already were.

The fact that Mai had become something he could possibly call his friend didn't factor in at all.

[enkindling.livejournal.com]

The footsteps of the three arrivals were enough to send her into another state of panic, a sharp wail hitting the air as she shakily stumbled backward as if death incarnate stood before her.

"Don't hurt, Mai -- don't - "

A brush of fire followed her plea, swirling upwards in the middle of the room, though luckily not close enough to harm her rescuers.

[charmingthief.livejournal.com]

His stance immediately shifted, each hand glowing a different color. "Who are you?"

"I know that. What would you-," He flinched at the sudden rise in temperature. "Talk fast. We don't have time."

[glacialis.livejournal.com]

He could sense the other's discomfort, and Mai's as well. Looking at Dark, and then addressing Mao, he looked back at Dark.

Then, with a hand extended towards him, he focused, on both him and Mai, within, drawing from her memories, and concealing Dark in what was a holographic psychic form resembling her father.

"Go inside." He advised quietly. "Act as he would."

[charmingthief.livejournal.com]

"What-," he stopped and glanced back at Mai. "Just. Let me do what I have to do."

The glow of his hands went away and he stepped back towards Mai.

He took slow steps, measuring his stride. Stopping a few meters away, Dark found his throat dry.

"Mai."

[enkindling.livejournal.com]

What Mai saw was not the familiar features of Dark, but rather that which she had been seeking these two past days: her father. Perhaps if she was in the right mind, Mai would have question how he father had so coincidentally appeared before her, but what mattered now was only that he was here - tangible in every way.



Her voice was faint, nearly breathless while small hands reached forward as if inviting an embrace.