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[nobodysheroine]

Characters: Ran/Gertrude (nobodysheroine), Scales/Novak (lizardoverdose), the dino known as Old Lace (velociraptornot)
Date/Time: BACKDATED, Tuesday, Sept 9th. Midday.
Location: Temp Housing & The Wilderness as Jurassic Park
Rating: PG
Summary: After getting riled up over the prospect of somebody taking Lezard up on his offer for a test subject, this dynamic duo of dinosaur crusaders head down

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[lizardoverdose]

Scales loved sleeping. There was nothing as wonderful as being unconscious, splaying limbs all over the bed too small for him, clawing at the air. His dreams were abstract, most of the time, green and white and red shapes moving around, blurred voices and things. Scales generally wasn't a guy who really thought hard on these kinds of things, and when he woke up, all of that went to the side. Right now, he spent most of his time in the Wilderness, running and jumping and spinning and learning his own limits so he could break them. He disliked the Marketplace and all, mostly because the looks he got. He figured that one day, he would be used of it, but for now, he preferred his solitude. There was that vague feeling that someone else should be there, green and a little smaller, or green and a lot smaller, but most of the time he could shove that away

[nobodysheroine]

If there was something Ran had learned by now it was that the only way to get by in the Sphere was to expect -- well, anything, really -- but much more than just the unexpected. You had to take the unexpected, throw in a dash of completely random and spike it with enough hello, irony to make weaker men go green in the face. Which, Ran thought with some bemusement, was rather a funny turn of phrase to be thinking of at this moment, considering.

Considering the fact that she was now staring a very large, very green, and very reptilian guy in the face, or rather, square in the chest until Ran had the wherewithal to look up and following him across the room with her eyes. She remained motionless in the door for a moment before finally cracking a tiny smirk. Her expression was a jumbled mess of shock, awe, amusement and a dash of you cannot be serious before it finally evened out into something that wasn't necessarily flat-out pleased but had a definite air of satisfaction to it.

"Well," she said and, bracing a hand on the door frame

[lizardoverdose]

To be honest, it was probably one of the better reactions he'd gotten these days. Most people there was fear, but in Ran, that was actually a pretty small factor in the equation. He liked the satisfaction, too, and sure it made a lot of sense now, didn't it?

"Someone else asked me if I took the name like if I was scales of justice, or like, reptile scales. I had half a mind to answer justice, but I was honest in the end. But I don't know why you're Ran, unless you're just damn good at sprinting."

He took the hand in his claw and shook it. "Let's go defend peace, freedom and liberty, partner in crime. Er. Justice. Maybe I am scales of justice."

He paused for thought, though, and stood up. "I am definitely ready, regardless, to hurt some dinosaur-haters. And protect some dinosaurs."

[nobodysheroine]

Ran rolled her eyes and laughed as she shook Scale's claw, which was a slightly odd experience -- not because it was strange, but rather because it was vaguely familiar, the feeling of that rough, plated reptilian skin against her palm. She reached up and poked the soft roundness of her cheek. "Does it look like I'm good at sprinting?" she asked flatly, her smirk flattening out, but her eyes still amused.

Turning on her heel she nodded towards the door, hooking her hands around the strap of her knapsack before striding forward and back into the hallway. "Come then, Scales of justice or just plain Scales!" she said with an air of pomp. "Let us sally forth and..." she faltered in her phrasing for a moment, but quickly recovered, "...bring the hammer of justice, along with your scales, down upon those who would do injustice-y type things."