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WHO: Rui and Pixie
WHERE: one of the City's numerous cathedrals
WHEN: Saturday evening
SUMMARY: Bedrest is booooring! Megan decides to go for a quick flight and comes across Rui who likes hanging out on the sides of buildings. Communication issues due to language barriers ensue.
WARNINGS: None at all
FORMAT: Paragraph to start, quicklog eventually

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[soultospare]

The fact that she'd had to sneak out was rediculous. Okay, she knew she'd been through a trauma or whatever, but it wasn't exactly the first time. Her head felt fine now, besides the itching from the stupid stitches. Even if the doctors did say she should try to take it easy, the didn't get it. Superheroes just had a different version of 'easy' than everybody else!

It's not like she was going off and fighting supervillains or going to the jail to visit Grell or trying to meet up with more new imPorts to let them take advantage of her all over again. She just needed to get outside for a while for a bit of a fly. A very fast fly, way up high where it was safe and things couldn't get her.

When the sky started turning pink, that's when she decided to rest, circling a nearby cathedral a couple of times (beautiful!) before finding a decent, gargoyle-free ledge to land and sit upon. Megan's knees tucked up in front of her and she hugged them, intent on watching the west sky slowly change its colors.

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The best part about being up high was that the sounds of the city were muted, even a little bit. Birds flew by every once in a while, but stuck to the trees or telephone lines for the most part. And most of the movement was below him.

So when something much too large and pink to be a bird flickered in the corner of his eye, he took notice. He looked to the side, but it had already gone; the sound of shoes on stone, however, led him to look up. His eyes widened.

"The hell?"

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A disembodied voice she didn't recognize said something in a language she didn't understand, and Megan screamed, launching herself off the building to hover in mid-air about ten feet away from the ledge. She spun around with her arms out, ready to dust the next thing that moved if it tried to take her down.

"Who's that? Who's there!" She looked around wildly, but there were ledges and towers and gargoyles and spires and nooks... whoever it was, they had at least a dozen potential hiding places on that building! "Come on out, then! I'm not afraid of you!"

She was very afraid. She'd seen how far Grell could jump.

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The sudden high-pitched scream made Rui jerk in surprise; his camouflage fell, though his feet remained firmly planted on the wall. He stared as the pink thing that revealed itself to be a girl hovered in the air, obviously held aloft by her insect-like wings.

For the briefest of moments he felt smug at having managed to inspire fear in someone else for the first time since leaving Japan, before the real terror in her voice registered and he frowned instead. It took a few moments to pick apart what she'd said for the most part - his English still sucked.

"Over here," he replied in the same language, then muttered in Japanese, "relax. Ka."