Buddy you're a young man, hard man, shoutin' in the street, gonna take on the world some day…

[homoraptor]

On an abandoned baseball field not far from the Main Gauche, one small beat-up sedan rolls to a stop near a collection of other beat-up cars, a truck or two, and one SUV which seems to have been mounted with a forward-facing chainsaw. Out of the newest car hops a Malek, who pops the trunk, bops back (opening the doors for his passengers on the way

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[superiorspectre]

Suzie climbs out of the car, bundled up and smiling, with only the slightest of winces. She's a bit sore, but all in all, she's doing well.

A quick look around reveals that this is going to be quite the game, and this is before she's seen most of the players in their other forms.

[scrummers]

The crowd of behemoths makes room for Suzie without really noticing her, for the most part, though the stocky man with the ball wanders up and eyes her before turning to Malek and going up on his tiptoes to catch him on the back of his neck. "Well? Bring people over, huh, might introduce us. New kid got no manners."

He ruffles Malek's hair - such as it is - and makes a fist, knocking Suzie's shoulder.

"Grigor. Coolblood, huh?"

[superiorspectre]

Suzie's been around Malek enough to at least understand what he means. "Human, yeah. I'm Suzie."

And how many humans get to see something like this? This is brilliant, all of it.

[scrummers]

Grigor gives her a crooked smirk, bouncing the ball on his shoulder and scannign the crowd. "Eh, Dolly! Для вам прохлада крови! Ai?"

Grigor wanders off, but a woman detaches herself from the group and makes her way over. She's a tall black woman, built like a bodybuilder, and in her winter coat, she looks like a large bombshell. She grins when she comes over, extending a hand.

"Dolly," she says. "Must be the only human who actually plays this game. You anything...?" Supernatural, is what she's thinking.

[superiorspectre]

"I'm Suzie." She takes Dolly's hand. "Wanderer, which as far as I can tell, just means 'pain in everybody's arse'." She gives Dolly a crooked grin. "You?"

Really, if any normal human could survive scrum as Malek's described it, Suzie has the feeling she's looking at that human. But she wouldn't be surprised to learn she was some sort of supernatural, either. She doesn't think many normal humans get invitations to this kind of thing.

[scrummers]

"Oh!" Dolly looks absolutely thrilled. "You know, I have never met a Wanderer before. You know, if you ever need anything, want to stop by for a meal, this community..." she waves at the demons. "Well, there are some things human could learn from them, I think." She claps her hand over Suzie's, then releases it. "I'm a shapeshifter. Only one in my family since my great-grandmother on my mother's father's side. Let me tell you, Great-Grand Elisa was thrilled when I turned sixteen."