[Out of Milliways:
Tidings of comfort and joy.]The front door opens on a hotel corridor. The woman standing with one hand on the doorknob looks to be far gone in a cold fury -- until she takes in the sight in front of her, and her expression changes to something like doubt
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The wolf whistle, in turn, comes from a very familiar face.
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She turns to look anyway, folding her arms across her chest and smiling.
"Loki." Her tone's warm, in contrast with the sharpness of her smile. "Didn't expect to see you here. Do I have you to thank for the decor?"
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He tips the selfsame candy toward the Window.
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Human. Definitely human, but ... different.
She's pretty sure it's human, anyway.
Elle is getting a rather long look.
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(Slightly damply.)
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River can continue peering almost indefinitely!
Maybe Kali is interesting.
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Maybe she's suddenly ten feet tall and has four arms, and skin the blue-black of a summer midnight, and a necklace of human skulls.
Or maybe she's a perfectly ordinary-looking woman, stepping up to the bar and ordering a glass of Atlantean.
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This voice comes from the rafters. And it is followed by a very loud thump.
"Or possibly it is something else."
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"More what?"
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Raven is a helpful creature.
"Or possibly also cookies. It is no difficult thing to combine them."
Not for him, anyway.
Call it a life skill.
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"No, thank you," she says. "I don't think we've met."
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