I've painted up my lips and rolled and curled my tinted hair

[pigeonsblood]

It hurts. Not that Ruby didn't expect it to; she made that knife herself, and she made it to hurt. She'd also entirely expected Dean to turn it on her as soon as he got through that door, but she didn't flinch. She'd done what she had set out to do; if Lilith could engineer her own death out of loyalty, her most loyal handmaiden could hardly do

Comments

[cute_shinigami]

If she ventures upstairs, she might find an attractive young man with violet eyes, carrying a rug along a hallway, possibly not quite looking where he's going. "Whoops! Sorry about that! I think I got a little lost in my own thoughts," he says, stepping aside.

(In canon, Tsuzuki is a somewhat like a Reaper, but a kindly one. And there's hints in canon that he might be partly descended from a demon or a fallen angel. Headcanon has him pegged as part Watcher angel.)

[pigeonsblood]

By this time someone's probably told Ruby how she can pick out a bedroom, so she's upstairs being nosey looking for a nice unoccupied one. She's still on high alert herself - it's like Old Home Week in here with demons and Winchesters and whatnot, and she fully expects someone to jump her any minute, if not necessarily with a rug. So she avoids actually being walloped with it.

Irritation flickers across her face, but oh so briefly; Ruby's on best behaviour here, so her watch it, dipshit remains unspoken. Instead she laughs and helps, if necessary, to steady the young man's unwieldy burden.
"No harm, no foul." She considers making a crack about how convenient a rolled-up rug is for hiding the bodies, but decides against it; for all she knows, the violet-eyed man is doing just that, and calling him on it would just be awkward. She grins and substitutes something more graceful. "Penny for them?"

[cute_shinigami]

"Ahh, I'm furnishing an office and I was thinking about some of the cases we'd been covering recently," he says. "Thanks for the help: I'm Asato Tsuzuki. You new here? I'd recognize a pretty face like yours." He miiight sound a little flirtatious on that bit, but there's a boyish awkwardness about it.

[pigeonsblood]

Flirting she knows what to do with; her lips twitch into a gentle, almost shy version of her best demure smile. Ruby can do demure like nobody's business.
"I just arrived today, yes. Everyone's been so kind." This is even more or less true, and she follows it up breathlessly with a question.
"Office? Cases? What is it you do?"

[cute_shinigami]

"Well, back in my world, I'm kind of a paranormal detective, and I've been doing that a bit here," he says. "It's branched out into a small detective agency, though most of the cases we've covered so far have been pretty much down to earth."

[pigeonsblood]

Well, that's a highly interesting piece of news, and Ruby doesn't try to disguise how interested she is to hear it.
"Really? That sounds exciting - I didn't get the impression this was a place where much happened." Admittedly she has very little to support that impression; perhaps the Mansion atmosphere is getting to her.
"Maybe I can find a way to be useful after all." She smiles self-deprecatingly. "I know, I just got here and all. But I really hate just spinning my wheels."

[cute_shinigami]

"Yeah, it's not always as quiet as it seems: weird things have happened here, so my partner and I started trying to get to the bottom of it," he says. "There's been a bit of excitement lately. I don't want to scare you, but there's been a couple of murders lately. We've got one guy in custody, but we're still tracking down the other."