--- Kat ---
"Um… maybe you could not?" asked Kamiko softly. "I… I an you were arguing with Hunter… and that wasn't exactly polite… but um… it… it seed like family drama so I wasn't going to interrupt… but um… maybe we should calm down?"
"She is not related to ," said Hunter at the sa ti…
As g said, "OOooh, that's a lot of anxiety in a little package. Family troubles of your own? I suppose it's to be expected when you never had any friends,"
Kamiko flinched backwards as if she'd been struck and Kat decided that was enough. She moved forward in front of Kamiko and glared up at g, uncaring for the height difference. Kat might have been used to being taller then people, especially other girl's but she had no problem with taller people. g seed to angling to change that. "That was rather uncalled for.
As her friend AND soone who watched her resolve those families issues I can say she really doesn't deserve that sort of attack,"
"h," said g with a shrug. "It's not like you really had friends before her either. All of them either left, or pushed you to take care of them. Hell, your little girlfriend over there doesn't count as a friend. After all, she bound herself to you forever didn't she? That's gotta be a drag,"
Lily shivered in the background shrinking in on herself as Kat's eyes lit up. Looking past g, trying to ignore the older girl's presence Kat asked. "I take it g has a power for this? I can't see her knowing so many details otherwise…"
Hunter nodded, "Yes, she has an ability for seeing the weak points of things and it is massively broad and works-"
g jumped back to Hunter and placed a hand over her mouth. Hunter, deciding she'd had enough tried to bite down on g's hand. g just had to shift a bit to avoid the bite. "Oh? That's interesting. Even going so far as to try and bite … might be breaking from your chains just a bit then hmmm?
Still it's awfully rude to go spreading my secrets. Didn't the clan teach you better then to give away the abilities of your fellow clan mbers huh?"
Hunter let out a long-suffering hiss filled with spite but didn't say anything else, just glaring. Kat's eyes widened. *That was enough? I an… it's pretty clear that Hunter was trying to say it even works for conversations or maybe emotional weak points… but really? That was enough to stop you Hunter? I know you don't look happy but…*
"See, this is how she is," said g with a sigh. "My Lil Sis is much too married to the clan. She won't even help out her new friends by bending the rules a bit. I'm sure she could co up with a valid loophole if she really wanted to. Especially as she treats the clan rulebook like her personal bible… but she won't because that would be against the spirit of the clan. Isn't that right?"
Hunter just hissed more. "See?" asked g. "That's just how she is. It's honestly very sad…"
Kat decided to bite back a bit, "Are you sure you're not the sad one? Imdiately going on the offensive socially and deliberately antagonising everyone in the group your set to work with?"
"Well, I heard there was ant to be a pathetic old man with you… so surely it can't be the entire group? Did you get bored of him perhaps? Feed him to one of the monsters along the way? It's ok if you did, I won't tell," said g with a grin.
A twang ca from the forest and a large steel bolt landed at g's feet. A mont later Bower stepped out of the woods. "That old man can speak for himself thank you very much,"
"Oh, ho, ho. Intruding on a secret eting? Or no? Just good timing perhaps? What a fascinating man to have a death with. I'm surprised my Lil Sis here had the compassion to keep soone so suicidal alive.
You must be devastated," assured g.
"Perhaps, but an old man like has learnt to live with the disappointnt," returned Bower. "Can't you go easy on the young ones? Too much hate in your liver to keep it in anymore?"
"Oh no not at all. It's great fun to bully my Lil Sis. She's just so serious you see?" returned g.
"I just see a sadist without a proper outlet. For sha, can't get your enjoynt from a job well done anymore?" asked Bower.
"Oooh, you've got so bite old man. Perhaps if you're given an extra hundred years to practice you might say sothing that will really hurt," smiled g.
"Don't tempt lass," grumbled Bower.
"Co on… I'll tempt you. I'm a big girl. I can take it. All of it… I assure you. So say I've got Succubus blood a couple generations back, so I'm pretty sure I can take it. All of it," said g smugly.
Bower stepped forward slowly, walking all the way up to g and ensuring that he was in lee range. He stared up at her and said, with a sad look on his face. "I'm sorry your parents never loved you,"
"Hah! You think telling the truth will hurt . Seems your old age is catching up to you!" sung g.
But Bower wasn't done yet. "It's ok. I understand that the only way you could receive any attention from the people you care about was to cause them pain and force them to react. It's a sha that you lash out at people for having no friends when you seem awfully lonely yourself,"
"Oooh yeah!" moaned g. "Really feeling that burn now old man. Deep in my black heart!" After a blink, she was then looming over Bower. "So co on. Give it to ! Rough up!
What's the endga for you huh? How are you going to get ?! I'm waiting!"
Bower looked her dead in the eyes and said, "You have a nice smile,"
g bluescreened. She just… froze in place. "What?"
"You have a nice smile. I thought I was clear. Do you want to talk about your interesting skin that seems soft to the touch yet holds great power behind it? How about the fact that you were able to annoy everyone without causing perant trauma with your words? That shows a lot of care you know…" said Bower with a smile, as he walked forward, matching g step for step as she back up.
Kat's jaw dropped as she watched g freaking out. Apparently… she was weak to complints? Genuine ones perhaps? Hunter had seen this and decided she wanted to get one over on g as well, so she slithered behind g, waiting until the larger girl backed into her and turned around. Hunter looked up at g and said, "I… I don't hate you,"
Then as if nothing had happened g's mood seed to swap completely, scooping Hunter up into a big hug. "Naw, my Lil Sis does love ! How sweet?!"
"Gah! Why are you not scared of !" hissed Hunter.
"Well you're just so adorable!" returned g.
Kat slid up to Bower while g was spinning Hutner around and hugging her. "So… what's up with… her I guess? You seed to notice sothing we didn't… and I'm confused as to how to treat her. I'm still pretty annoyed, she took so… heavy shots at us before you turned up,"
Bower shrugged and said, "I don't completely know Kat. That g there… she's got a lot of masks on. I cracked a few with my little switch-up before but I'm quite sure none of us have seen her real face. Perhaps she's worn the mask too long, perhaps one of the masks is just a copy of her original face. Can't say for sure. She is however… quite broken,"
"Yeah… she did ntion sothing about her parents not really caring about her before you turned up…" offered Kat.
"I'm not surprised. That tends to be what sses up most people up in the end. Whatever shit our parents did to us. I'm lucky in that it was the war that fucked up instead, so I can't hate my parents for what they did and didn't do," grumbled Bower.
"Really not sure I'd call that good Bower…" said Kat with a sigh.
"Bah, I'll be fine. Go hug your girlfriend, she still seems pretty withdrawn," said Bower as he made a shooing motion.
Kat blinked and saw he was correct. Kamiko and Lily had apparently decided to hide behind her and attempt to blend into the background. Kat kicked herself ntally for not noticing. She was too busy trying to co up with ways to bite back at g. *I still don't really know what to do about her. She's… antagonistic certainly.
Clearly has a very different view on Hunter's clan… but I don't know if she'd ever tell us what she actually thinks. Sigh. What a bother.*
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