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[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Misaki appears on the plane in casual clothes. With an entire batting-cage setup in tow. Complete with nets, pitching machines, buckets of balls, and racks on racks of beat up bats. She goes around for a few minutes making sure everything still works, even without anything to plug it into. Which it does. Of course. Then she switches one of the pitching machines on high and starts cracking balls into the net, one after the other, with Totally Unnecessary Ferocity.]



[[Right after this, so naturally she is in a VERY VERY bad mood. Hence the stealing of her favorite batting cages.]

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[shunofandromeda.livejournal.com]

[Here's a very happy, bouncy Shun] You're good at that.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She doesn't even stop swinging to reply.]

Thank you. [Each forced word falls on the crack of her bat.]

Would you mind refilling the bucket before I run out of balls?

[Too late. She grunts.] Misaki Kirihara. I don't believe we've met.

[shunofandromeda.livejournal.com]

We haven't meet. I'm Shun, it's nice to meet you. I don't think I've ever seen anyone bring this much stuff on to the Astral Plane before.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She yanks another bucket full of balls from the rack and starts dumping them into the machine.] If they miss it then I'll know I'm not crazy.

[shunofandromeda.livejournal.com]

[Watching her] You still aren't sure this place is real?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She sighs and slows, setting the bucket aside.] I'd like to question it. I really would.

[contract_star]

[Look who's feeling better! Hei comes over and watches her bat for awhile before speaking.]

Bad day?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She didn't see him come up. At the sound of his voice, she misses her swing, and then goes ahead and throws the bat with a snarl, surprising herself. It bounces off the pitching machine, which falls over and starts spitting balls rhythmically across the Astral floor.]

You would know about those. [She bites back and turns away. This isn't her. But a kid. Another kid.]

[contract_star]

[...Whoa, he wasn't expecting that. He watches the pitching machine spit balls, a little wide-eyed.

Waits a moment for her to calm down, then,] What happened?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She presses a hand to her her face] Some murderer I can't even catch a bare lead on piled a kid's remains on a seesaw for a laugh.

[contract_star]

[Goes immediately :|]

Contractor?

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

Now that's anger management.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She grits her teeth and hits the next ball hard enough that the bat splinters. She glares at it.]

Unfortunately, it's not working.

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[eyes widen a bit] Careful, there. That's a lot of power in those hits. What's the ball supposed to be?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She stares at the crack like it's a personal insult. Another ball whips by, close enough to stir her shirt, but she doesn't even flinch.]

A child-killer.




[[Emo Misaki is Emo]]

[salvagestime.livejournal.com]

[instantly looks serious]

A serial killer?

[lamb_of_gold]

I've a feeling that wondering if you're frustrated would be rhetorical.

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She gives the last ball in that batch a concussion and then stops to rub her arms] I suppose it would. I'm just glad this all works out here--this way I don't have to pay.

[lamb_of_gold]

Let it never be said this place did not have merits.

What is it that angers you so much?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

A case that I'm working on. [She puts that bat away and starts testing out the others.] It isn't going well.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

What'd those balls ever do to you?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[She takes another crack at the balls and then waits, poised, for the next one, but the machine just goes on humming. She scowls, sets the bat aside, and goes for another bucket.]

Nothing. What they keep me from doing is cracking every head from here to my apartment.

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[ah, anger management. something he's keenly acquainted with] What happened?

[chasingstars201.livejournal.com]

[Ironically enough, she thinks he's probably one of the people here who would understand best.] Serial killer. Likes kids.

[She starts the machine back up and resumes her stance.]

[theguv.livejournal.com]

[he does, far too well. on both counts. and so he sits quietly, staring into the distance] Had a bloke like that once, went about kidnapping girls, making 'em do all sorts of things for him before raping 'em and leaving 'em dead in the canal. Got his jollies from it. Finally caught him bragging about his latest girlie to a mate one night while getting pissed. [grunts] Had to keep my boys from tearing the bastard limb from limb.