The Park, Sunday Night

[blondecanary]

"My laugh is an evil laugh... Ha ha ha ha DIE!"

Tamsin twirled, jumped up on a park bench, then jumped off. Yesss, she was drunk. Yes, she was in a good mood.

That meant she was looking for a fight. Just as soon as she was done singing about dinosaurs.

[Violent vivid Valkyrie looking for entertainment. Open to anyone up for thrown words or

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[glacial_witch]

Karla fell into the pond with a splash and then surfaced, pissed off and sputtering. Ooooh! Fuck that protection spell right in its bloody ear!

She let loose a string of Eyrien curses, trying to figure out who she was going to throttle first.

[glacial_witch]

The second was all Karla needed to pull the shoulder back into its socket and weave a small spell to shunt away the pain. That second also meant that she took a Tamsin to the ribs, which was unfortunate for her. Tamsin made quite the effective weapon.

But you know what else did? The Sapphire. Which was why Karla was using it to blast Tamsin away from her while she wheezed for breath.

[blondecanary]

"Nnyaaah!" Tamsin got blasted away, half out of the water, and more than a little woozy. It took her a minute to focus enough to find Karla again, then she was grumbling and snarling, mostly under her breath. "Aaaagh." She rubbed her head. Okay, so, some other weapon, if she couldn't get close to the little mortal.

She gave one of the flamingos a considering look.

[glacial_witch]

Those poor, poor flamingos. They didn't deserve what was coming to them. It was no surprise they weren't big fans of Karla, Dinah, or Momoko.

...Not that Karla was doing much better than Tamsin. Her ribs ached like a bitch and she was pretty sore all over, hunkering down in the water to try and keep the weight off her everything. The only benefit she had going for her right now was that Tinkerbell wasn't using magic of her own to fight back with.

"Not looking so hot there!" she called. "Had enough?"

Karla? Shut up.

[blondecanary]

Tamsin made a grab for a flamingo. It was squawking. Fluttering. And now its legs were trapped as most of the rest of the birds took off, and she turned, eyes glinting.

"Enough what?"

Flamingo in your face, Karla! FLAMINGO!

[glacial_witch]

"Grawwk!"

Whether that unflattering sound came from Karla or the bird was hard to say as it practically exploded in her face in a profusion of wings, strong legs, and pink feathers. She fell backwards into the water again, far more interested in getting the bird off of her than keeping her footing in the squishy bottom of the lake.

Oooh, she was gonna get you for this, Tamsin. Just you wait.

[blondecanary]

Yeah, Tamsin was climbing out of the pond now. This water fighting was for the birds. Ahem.

"You going to bathe all night?" Her teeth flashed. "Play with your new friend?"

[glacial_witch]

The bird had finally gotten airborn and started to fly away by the time Karla surfaced. "You stupid bitch," she fumed. "Do you have any idea how much danger a bird that size can be? They can break bones if they really want to!"

After dating Warren (and her previous run-ins with waterfowl), Karla was pretty aware of the danger sizable wings and beaks presented.

To show Tamsin how not best pleased Karla was with her, she sent multiple phantom hands her way, pulling, scratching, and tearing. Even a special set just to yank on Tamsin's hair. TAKE THAT!

[blondecanary]

Yeah, that Valkyrie shriek wasn't as destructive as Dinah's, but loud, whoa.

"STOP IT. STOP THAT! STOP--"

Tamsin was tired, drunk, and she knew it was a stupid plan. But she was pissed.

Her face started to change.

[glacial_witch]

Karla felt her blood chill in her veins, looking at that face. The hands attacking Tamsin fell away as her will to hold them faded. She flinched back, barely noticing when her bladder loosened--thanks, Tamsin, you were the best, really.

"W-what?" she croaked in a tiny voice, her shields snapping around her in an instant.

[blondecanary]

"Do you really think you can take me?"

Oh, she was gonna pay for this later. Pass out, probably. Lose some hair. But since she'd already started...

Doubt, fear, suspicion, confusion: all the weapons of War, and oncoming conflict, lashed out at Karla. It was a damn good thing she had those shields up now.

[glacial_witch]

Karla cringed. "N-Noooo?"

She was afraid; self-doubt eating her away from the inside. What had she been thinking, imagining that she could take this being? That she could be her equal? That she could--

Wait. Wait, no. This was not how Karla reacted to fear, to intimidation. Even to the last with Ender, she'd been making snarky comments as a way to bring that fear to bay. This mewling terror?

It wasn't her.

She couldn't move past the fear, couldn't dispell it. But she could acknowledge that it was there. And not of her own making.

"Look who had to resort to her bag of tricks first, though?" she said, teeth chattering. "Not me."

[blondecanary]

Tamsin's laughter was high-pitched, hysterical. "Do you know how old I am? How many warriors I've taken? How many deaths I've fed on?" She swayed a little, the face still front and center. "You're giving me a good fight. But you can't win."

Because Tamsin could not lose. Would not. Could not.

[glacial_witch]

"You already have," Karla said, feeling her body swimming away from that face, trying to get far, far away from it. "You couldn't beat a mortal without it."

And on that note, she was exiting the water and fleeing towards the dorms, pulling a sight shield around her in case Tamsin thought of getting in one last blow.

Did not want the scary lady to find her. Nooooo.