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[redredwolf]

Characters: (au) Yuriy Ivanov ;; OPEN
Where: The Park
When: Bright morning
Summary: Amongst the chaos, Yuriy continues his plans. He goes out after a sleepless night to think more, and may end up under the mistletoe (characters are free to bump him under one, or get stuck under one themselves? Hurf.)
Warnings: Possibly violence; swearing; sarcasm;

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[lady_bounty]

Faye was out on one of her once-daily Entropi-and-compound-studying patrols. She had long since given up hoping they'd do her any good, but the routine was comforting, and she'd hate herself if she missed something useful.

And so it was that she was out in the park on a bright snowy morning. She looked slightly ridiculous tromping through the snow in an extravagant and luxurious white mink coat; the cold warranted its use, despite her psychological discomfort (weeks later, she could still almost see it writhing, ugh). She was picking her way along the stream, a cloud of cigarette smoke mingling with the cloud of her breath, glancing up frequently as she passed beneath the trees, searching among the branches for mistletoe, but also looking above, through the branches....

A flash of red at the corner of her eye caught her attention, and she turned her head to see Yuriy a short distance away between the trees. She raised a hand in greeting. "Yuriy! Dobryj dyen'!" She smirked. "How go your efforts to rid our war camp of vermin?"

[redredwolf]

He hadn't paid attention to how long he'd been wondering. Yuriy figured that with what was going on now he had enough time to plan out what he was going to do, say, and work things let alone walk outside. So the voice that sounded caught him a little.

His head tipped over a shoulder to see a familiar face. Faye. "Privet," he said with a bit of a smirk. "Vy govorite na russkom yazyke? Vashe proiznosheniye uzhasno."

She had to be through the trees didn't she. How did he foresee this conversation not going how it was planed to go? All the same, his smile turned up into a cocky grin as he chuckled to himself, continuing to walk as she did.

"Terrible," Yuriy said as in a tone counter to the word - sarcasm laced every breath even if they were true words. "Some bastards decided to rain on my parade and kidnap little children."

[lady_bounty]

Faye responded to his smirk with a wider smirk of her own. "Sorry, that's all the Russian I know. ...Well, that and 'vodka'." She flashed a grin around the cigarette in her mouth.

Faye's own words were laced with irony. "Yeah, so I've noticed. It's a pain in my own ass- I need to talk to one of the kidnappees. ...If she turns up dead I'm going to be very annoyed." Faye scowled a little.

She sucked on her cigarette, snatching it from her mouth and exhaling a cloud of smoke as she flicked some ashes into the snow. She glanced around, then sort of shrugged to herself and began to pick her way carefully toward him, boots slipping a little on the icy, crusty old snow and roots and rocks hidden beneath the blanket of white. She glanced up frequently, shielding her eyes from the glare of the sun with one hand as she peered into the shadows, wary of the little plants with white berries. "It's a bit risky walking around under the trees, don't you think? ...'Suppose I should talk. Speaking of pains in my ass...." Faye's voice

[redredwolf]

"That's all you really need to know," he responded; Heheh. Thank god for that, she couldn't pronounce for shits.

Yuriy chuckled to himself as his feet stopped in the snow and body pivoted toward her. Though he stayed where he was. He wasn't going to go through that and get stuck under a mistletoe. Haha, no. It was a pain in the ass, the mistletoe. It was horrifically amusing watching other people try to avoid it and get stuck under it crying and swearing, though. A hand settled on his hip, and his weight shifted. Icy hues just waiting for the inevitable.

"I'm sure there is someone here who can revive people, da?" It was almost terrible how casually Yuriy could talk about this kind of thing. Some people would probably question whether he was 'human' or not. He'd probably laugh at them. Seemed like she was also casual about the topic herself. "Who were you looking for?" He had a bet on Gaz, just because she seemed to be well known and knowledgeable

[twentysnowflake]

Admittedly, Larka had promised her denmate Soma that she would make an attempt to help locate the humans that had been kidnapped. And she had. But any scent that possibly would have been left was dulled by time, not that much had been left to begin with, and even her own nose could only do so much; she was a Varg, not a dog whose mating season had been interfered with by man in order to improve certain traits.

Besides, there were probably many others already looking. Her own assistance was hardly necessary.

At the moment, she was meandering through the park, enjoying the weather. If nothing else, she loved the snow - it was natural, one of the only things that was natural in this place, and reminded her of home.

[redredwolf]

Snow also reminded him of home which was partially why it helped him think. It was a comfort to him. Well, truthfully, this place was a lot less uncomfortable than many others consider it to be. Though the disorganization was frustrating.

Calm steps crunched down into the snow upon his wonder along the semi-frozen pond. This place, destroyed as it may be, with the snow looked familiar. Now he knew why it seemed so familiar. He stopped for a moment when it looked like no one was around and rolled his eyes up to the sky. Those globed hovering up above them. It meant so many things.

Though a sound stirred him from his thoughts, and not just a sound but - Wolborg? A brow lifted and he turned his head over a shoulder. A wolf? What was a wolf doing here?

[twentysnowflake]

There was a human - or at least, one of the human-like, as it was hard to tell here - just ahead, who had apparently noticed her. Not that she had been particularly trying to be stealthy.

She paused in her walking and sat. "I won't hurt you," she assured him - with the paranoia that had gripped this place lately, she wanted to make extra sure that she wouldn't be mistaken as such. It was so much easier to deal with humans when they weren't trying to kill you.

[redredwolf]

"You wont hurt me?" He asked, as if puzzled by why she would suggest it. Yuriy wasn't a stranger to talking wolves. Not like it happened in this way. Back home a wolf was a wolf, they spoke how wolfs spoke; but Wolborg was special. Like all of the other bitbeasts were. He'd come to respect them a lot more than he used to.

"Shouldn't you be more weary of me hurting you?" There was a small smirk as he stopped about a foot or two away, and slowly crouched. "But I wont either."

The redhead paused. For a moment there, he almost forgot where he was. Looking at her. She was beautiful. She is beautiful, isn't she Wolborg? He missed seeing Wolborg. Missed having her there beside him rather than inside him, but, well, a place like this didn't allow emotions like that. He shrugged it off.

"What is a creature like you doing here in a place like this?"

[to_her_yang]

It's not that Rei minded mistletoes as much as Econtra's apparently very susceptible population. They were just plants, and how a kiss could hurt, as embarrassing as it was?
However, that one at the bridge slightly ticked her off; being stuck outside on a passage people were usually very prone to take instead of a big detour was pretty annoying. As she saw that it was still there, Rei wondered how nobody had the idea to, um, make it explode or something.
So with a sigh, she attempted to make a detour along the pond, when she spotted him.
While their last conversation could have been on worse terms, he wasn't the first person she wanted to meet in the coldness of the park.

[redredwolf]

He'd stopped at the ponds side to think more. The tall and slender body was crouched down by the edge; knees together. One forarm crossed them while the other propped a forearm up by the elbow and his chin laid in the cradle of his palm. Red brows furrowed in thought. Commanding a troop of people who had far more experience than he did, more or less. No, he wasn't a commander here, though he could issue orders like one. He was more of an initiator. Things worked differently in this place; he needed to adapt his way of thinking. Though the fall of the soviet union abolished communism, Biovolt was run in a communist fashion. Mainly because Voltaire's plan was to reinstall the power lost by the fall of CCCP. Only he would be the ruler, and all other nations would be beneath Russia, beneath him

ooc: THAT'S BECAUSE SHE'S STALKING YOU

[to_her_yang]

Rei was far from surprised. Afterall, the compound was small. And it was a given that anyone walking around in the park would see her somehow, because as cold as it was, the park was like her second residence. Probably the same way Yuriy preffered the church to the apartment, who knew? Only that the park was, how to put it? Freezing cold instead of ''not very warm''.
Yellow eyes stared back, giving him a look of recognition. A greeting was too much a level of friendliness with him, maybe; so she simply said:
''Hey. Don't take the bridge, there's a mistletoe there.''

ooc: GD IT.

[redredwolf]

Don't take the bridge. A slight tug pulled down on his lips, but it didn't look like a frown of displeasure or anger. What was she trying to do? Forgive and forget, or something like that? He couldn't tell with her. His eyes fell back down onto the pond for a moment. He wondered... he could probably help freeze the ice to walk over it safely.

"You don't say," Yuriy finally spoke as he began to rise to a stand. He chuckled a little and slide a foot down to the ice with ease, and began to walk. She thought too much on what to say, how to act, what she was thinking and why. Not like she didn't have good reasons to think too much though.

[savedthejerk]

Mai, at the moment, was attempting to use firebending with her glares. Namely at a piece of plant. She had just wanted to go for a walk and had managed to avoid most of the mistletoe. Then this one managed to sneak up on her. Now she was stuck. She's already thrown her knives at the plant to no avail.

So now she was stuck. And getting rather cold. Even with layers, staying still when one was used to Fire Nation weather, it got cold fast.

[redredwolf]

Yuriy, being the kind man he was, couldn't help but smirk when he saw this fiasco out of the corner of his eyes. Not like he had been any more graceful about it when he was stuck, but since there was no one around to call him a hypocrite and nor would he really care all too much if there was, he was amused.

She was not. Which always made it a little more amusing. He stopped his wondering a good distance away from her, and grinned a little. Like hell he'd 'free her'. Though taking a moment or two to admire the small moments of humor while involved in such a place as Econtra couldn't hurt.

[savedthejerk]

Mai shot a glare at Yuriy when she felt eyes on her. She was obviously not very happy and he was quite tempting a target. "My feet can't move, but I can still hit you between the eyes from here." She said flatly. She was already angry, but if someone was gonna gawk at her, she'd happily hurt them to relieve some stress.