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[onblackwings]

[ This lady's looking a little different, for anyone that's spoken with her before. Not any older, but there's a sort of crooked quality to her nose, like it'd been broken and healed some time ago. She's lounging in the Initiative apartments, looking like she's recently made friends with a superiority complex. ]

I want to speak to those of you who have seen a war before. Not the skirmishes that the Initiative sends us on here, but actual war.

And failing that, I'll take anyone that knows magic — and can teach it. That part is important. Don't waste my time if all you can do is cast it.

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sorry this is so late! orz

[dualreaping]

I could.

Though I have to ask - what exactly would you do with it?

no worries!

[onblackwings]

Practice it. It's a disrespect to magic to do otherwise.

[dualreaping]

[Whether or not that's a lie doesn't really matter to him - not right now, anyway.

He just wants to see whether or not this person sticks with that answer.]

Very well. In that case, I could teach you.

[onblackwings]

[ aw yeah, NOW they're talkin ]

And what would you ask in exchange?

[dualreaping]

There's very little you could offer, I assure you.

Regardless, I'm doing this just to pass the time. I require nothing in return.

[onblackwings]

[ suddenly: wary suspicion! she frowns. ]

No one gives anything for free. Name your price now, and don't try to spring it on me at some inopportune time.

[dualreaping]

[He chuckles at that; quiet and short.]

I told you already, there's nothing you can offer me.

If there were I wouldn't be doing this for nothing.

[onblackwings]

Name a price. Even if you think it's something I can't provide.

[dualreaping]

Fine; a way out of here.

[onblackwings]

[ dammit ]

No one can do that, not even the ones that brought us here.

[dualreaping]

[He'd be smirking, if she could see his face.]

Then you have nothing to offer I cannot acquire myself.

Though you're the first person I've ever spoken to who's made getting something for free so difficult.

[onblackwings]

Nothing is free. I just want you to be upfront about it.

[dualreaping]

If your paranoia would rather we not do this, I'll gladly withdraw my offer.

[onblackwings]

[ Quickly: ] I didn't say that. I still want whatever you can teach me.

[dualreaping]

Yet you won't allow me to do it for nothing.

[He chuckles again - he honestly think she's kind of amusing, even if depending on who he's dealing with, he'd be the same way.]

So it appears we've reached an impasse.

[onblackwings]

[ she takes an UNTRUSTING moment to consider this. ain't no way she's passing up magic lessons, greed overpowers caution. but only just barely, so: ]

I don't want to discuss this over this machine. Meet me somewhere, and I think we'll come to an agreement.

[dualreaping]

Well then, where are you now?

[onblackwings]

[ a beat ]

Show me your surroundings, and I'll come to you.

go to action, or a separate log?

[dualreaping]

If you insist.

[He holds the tablet up, showing some remote area on the fringe of the city limits, with parts of the outlands visible a short distance away, but DESPITE IT'S VAGUENESS IS NOTABLE ENOUGH TO FIND YEP TOTALLY.]

i vote right here, on account of laziness!

[onblackwings]

[ HEY IT'S ALL SHE NEEDS. She nods, cuts the feed — and in just a moment, will be teleporting straight into the area, and not ten feet away from him. ]