Application for Rachel Morgan; Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan series

[racheltherunner]

((For playability reasons, Rachel is being taken from the end of Dead Witch Walking, the first in her series. Just for clarification, the italicized portions are her answers. The rest is just...for your reading pleasure, I suppose. XD))I walked into the room, the clack of my boots on the stone floor echoing around. Huh. This was...interesting

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[makeminemayday]

A small, brown-and-white English bulldog puppy (although it's hard to tell since she's a bit dirty) trots into the Sorting Room, trotting as fast as her short legs will carry her. She toddles over to Rachel, sniffing curiously.

"Alley! Where are you?" A teenage girl, wearing a bandanna and overalls and carrying a towel, pokes her head in the room. "There you are! Get back here, silly!" She sees Rachel then. "Oh, geez. I'm sorry. Alley!"

[racheltherunner]

Ooh, a dog! I liked dogs. Crouching down, I grinned at the puppy, scratching behind her ears. Glancing up at who I can only assume is the dog's owner, I shrugged. "Hey, no worries. Cute dog. Alley, you said her name was?" Kind of an odd name for a bulldog, but hey. I've heard worse.

((Reposted because I <3 tenses. *facepalm*))

[makeminemayday]

((Sorry! Had no net access for a few hours there. Oh, and from skimming the responses, Rachel might be able to pick up that May isn't a normal human.))

Attention whore that she is, Alley licks Rachel's hand, then plops down and rolls onto her back, obviously inviting the new worshiper to scratch her belly.

May laughs, kneeling down beside the dog. "Oh, and she knows it, too. Don't you?" Alley just gives her a tongue-lolling grin. "It's short for Alley-Oop, really. May be silly, but it's the first name she approved of." She uses the opportunity to wipe off some of the excess dirt with the towel and Alley whines. "Don't you look at me like that. You're the one that decided to go mud-sliding down that hill."

"Anyway, hi, I'm May. You just got here, I take it?"

[racheltherunner]

((No worries! XD And, yeah, Rache would probably notice the different smell, but not know exactly what. :D No superheroes in her canon, alas!))

A laugh bubbled out at the oh-so-obvious plea for attention, and I rubbed Ally's belly. "You just want some loving, don't you, girl?" I asked the dog, mock-seriously. "And a mud sliding? Now that sounds like fun."

I glanced up at the girl. Hmm...she didn't have that normal 'human' smell about her, but nothing else obvious, either. Mentally shrugging, I grinned up at her. I was no pixy. God knew that unless it was the scent of rosewood heralding at least a wizard, I was useless mostly. "Hello, May. I'm Rachel. And, yeah, just arrived. Apparently I'm waiting for votes."

[makeminemayday]

"I don't think she intended to go mud-sliding, but she went full-tilt down a wet hill. Not that it bothered her much at all, but I don't think my House-mates would appreciate a wet, muddy puppy running around.

"Votes? Yeah, it would help if I looked at the application." Since Alley's in good hands, May leaves her with Rachel to skim a copy of the application.

She skims it, then reads it a second time. "Okay, I bet you've had to explain most of this ad nauseam already, huh?" But hey, she has to ask something. "So why'd you leave, uh, Inderland Security?"

[racheltherunner]

Man, dogs were so cool. I'd always wanted one, but, well... Kind of depressing to leave a puppy alone all night in an apartment while I worked. And now, it was probably a bad idea to bring a dog into a garden full of pixies. Poor thing would be tormented.

"Because my boss was an unmitigated ass," I replied, scratching just under Ally's chin. "And he was driving me out. Plus, I got a wish from a leprechaun." Chuckling, I looked up at May. "Which actually didn't help nearly as much as it sounds."

[makeminemayday]

Alley licks Rachel's hand again, rolling back onto her stomach, tail wagging happily. She doesn't even whine when May takes the opportunity to towel away more of the mud from her back. She'll still need a bath, but this will cut down on the potential for mud-tracking.

"A wish from a leprechaun? Well, that's one I haven't heard before." And she's heard a lot since coming here. "The leprechaun part, anyway. I can buy that a wish wouldn't be that simple. It never is in stories. Anything that looks free really isn't, right?"

[racheltherunner]

"That's pretty much the way of it, yeah," I agreed ruefully. Leprechauns or demons or anything in between. No such thing as a free lunch.

Pulling myself from my melancholy, I rubbed at Ally's ears. "So, how long have you been here?" I asked May, looking at the other girl.

[makeminemayday]

((ACK SORRY. I blame grad school.))

"Couple months now. Showed up here completely by accident, although I did get a few messages home to my folks so they wouldn't freak. You meant to come here, though?"