026 - Maybe sparrow you should wait (The hawks alight 'til morning)

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki appears in the bar wearing casual clothes, her hair stuffed up under a baseball cap. The side of her face is bruised and scratched. She limps over behind the bar, pulls a clean rag from one of the drawers and dumps some cheap whiskey over it before gingerly unbuttoning the topmost button of her shirt and pulling back the collar. There's a rather ugly gash underneath, bleeding sluggishly. Those with experience in such areas will recognize it as a weevil bite. She dabs at it gently with the cloth, hissing a little.]

What the hell was that?

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[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

[...shit.] What did it look like?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

A freak in a circus mask. [Sorry if she sounds irritated. It's only 'cause... well... she is.]

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

Freaks in circus masks don't usually leave bites like that.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Ianto, I had no idea.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

Yet you have no idea what did bite you.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

No I do not. All I know is that I have to figure out a way of dealing with it and the other three that came up out of the sewer when it threw me against the wall.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

[Ianto drops from the Plane, then returns with a few canisters.] Spraying these usually helps get them under control... we call them weevils.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She closes her eyes for a moment.] Beautiful. Set them on the counter for now? [She returns her attention to the bite.] I checked three of the bars near the Gate that serve as Contractor meeting places. They're empty. I mean empty. The people you have showing up in Cardiff around the active Rift spaces? [She gives him a look and lays the cloth flat over the wound.] I'd bet my gun they're Contractors.

[damnfinecoffee.livejournal.com]

[He nods, sets them on the counter, then inspects the wounds.] You're lucky you didn't get worse if there were three of them. You'll need some disinfectant, though. Maybe a few stitches... you want me to get a first-aid kit?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She nods.] Please. I came here as soon as I saw the other ones heading for me.

[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

You were in a fight of some sort? [Touches the side of her face, healing it.]

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Startles at the touch, putting one hand to her face.] Of a sort. You can heal as well?

[contract_star]

[Hei is immediately going behind the bar and getting out the first aid kit he has decided to stash there for incidents like this.]

Let me see it.

Where did this happen?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Sits down on the bar.] Near the Gate. I was following up on a hunch regarding a reality merger with Ianto. I got some weevils, apparently. Large and ugly with a penchant for biting things.

[contract_star]

[Tenses momentarily when she says "Gate"] Weevils. So not the...

[Falls silent and goes to work on the bite, cleaning, disinfecting and bandaging.]

[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

Yes, healing is one of the skills I posses. I shall deal with the rest of your injuries if you have no objection.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

None at all.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Winces. Sorry, Hei, she wasn't there for the whole hallucination thing.] So not the what?

[contract_star]

[Is quiet for awhile, working.]

There were...things. Inside the Gate. I'm pretty sure they were real, anyway.

[Finishes the bandaging.] You'll probably need stitches. See a doctor as soon as you can.

[shinypaws.livejournal.com]

Goodness! ...Hm...odd scent.

Ah, hold still a moment, Misaki. I will heal you.

[ram-of-gold.livejournal.com]

[Heals the other wounds] What caused injuries such as these?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Weevils, apparently. Creatures from someone else's reality that have found their way into my own.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[The thought of creatures alive in a place like that makes her skin crawl.]

Ianto was going to get a first aid kit. He seems to be used to these things.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Amaterasu.

[contract_star]

Your reality is merging with his, I take it.