III: City streets

[dei_irati]

[Vergil is standing just within the shelter he and his twin are sharing, watching the rain come down]

Having spent the vast majority of my life in large cities, I believe I now have adequate experience in the outdoors to conclude I prefer said cities. The rustic charm is lost on me when everything is a sea of mud.

[Looks off-camera] No, I'm not

Comments

[sempervirgo]

You're telling me, this mud's terrible. I should have stuck with the orange jumpsuit - there's no way these stains will come out after so many days. [Leave it to Mary to bitch about stains while stranded on an alien planet.]

[dei_irati]

I'd rather be mudstained then in an orange jumpsuit. The situation is bad enough without throwing unwearable colors such as that in.

I wonder when the rain will stop.

[sempervirgo]

I would have thought you'd be less concerned about the fashion of it and more concerned about the predators it might draw out - not that you'd have to worry about them, but some of us do.

[Her slight smirk drops into a thoughtful look] We must've arrived in their monsoons - it could be months.

[dei_irati]

Fashion? Tell me, would you like to have to look at Dante day in and day out in one of those things? He's bad enough without orange. As for predators, I can't imagine they would want to be out in this any more then we would---but it's a thought worth considering.

I certainly hope not. I'm liable to snap before another week of this.

[sempervirgo]

You - snapping? That's something I'd pay to see, Vergil. Besides, Dante's already an eyesore, I doubt an orange jumpsuit could even make him that much worse than he already is - no offense.

[dei_irati]

It's been known to happen. I wouldn't want you seeing it.

None taken. But I'd rather not have to listen to complaints about how "uncool" it was 24/7.

[sempervirgo]

Why? Sorry to say, but you're not a scary guy.

He'd have to sleep sometime.

[dei_irati]

Not to you.

Dante can stay up for a week straight if he cares to. Fortunately he's not, or I'd never get any peace.

[sempervirgo]

Not to anyone who bothers to get to know you.

Maybe I should have opted to grab sedatives when I went back on the ship that last time.

[dei_irati]

[Silent]

It would only have given us five or so minutes peace. Still... tempting.

[sempervirgo]

...Vergil. Stop being so hard on yourself.

[dei_irati]

I'm not being hard on myself. I can be terrifying when I need to be, Mary.

[sempervirgo]

When would you ever need to be terrifying?

[dei_irati]

[Smiles with just a hint of an edge to it] When people are trying to kill me.

[sempervirgo]

[narrow look, the screen follows her to where she is standing behind Vergil - it shuts off and she slaps him upside the back of th head] That doesn't require being scary, it requires being smart.

[dei_irati]

[Rolls eyes at Mary] I'm very intelligent, and you know it. Terror has its place, at least when fighting enemies that are capable of feeling it.