not what she had planned for tuesday morning

[hellkaiserin]

[...

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...where the fuck is this.

Going from an impending duel with a draconically possessed Scandinavian directly to an almost empty hotel lobby was not what she wanted from her week.

She seems on alert now, and she's thumbing through her deck by reflex (Dark World taught her some things about having weapons on hand).]

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[ivarkwright]

[Judging by how the girl seems to be holding a deck IV decides it's safe to assume she's a duelist. Not one he's met before, or one he probably should care about. But a duelist none the less.

Taking a moment to put on his gentle duelist facade he walks over to her.]

Hey there, do you happen to know where we are?

[hellkaiserin]

[She turns to face him, sliding Keel up partially and readying herself...

...oh. Not very impressive. (And about eight inches shorter than her.) Although the scar under his eye might be some indication that he has more experience than he might show.

(Keel slides back into the deck.)]

No.

And you don't either?

[ivarkwright]

[Despite seeming rather unimpressive, his intellect was nothing to bark at. IV decides whatever she was planning to pull out of her deck could still be a threat to him now. He'll have to be careful from here on out.]

Not at all. At first I figured some fans brought me here, but that's not the case.

Perhaps we should compare where we were before hand.

[hellkaiserin]

[Don't worry, IV, you wouldn't seem all that unimpressive to most people. It's just...Kaiserin.]

..."Fans"?

[Pro duelist, maybe. That would explain the attitude.]

I'm assuming you aren't from Dark World.

[ivarkwright]

You're speaking to the Asian Dueling champion. Sometimes my fans get a little wild, but I do so love to spoil them.

[He smiles rather widely as they speak now, looking a tad bit more malicious than before.]

I'm from Heartland City, never heard of Dark World.

[hellkaiserin]

[...heel in face's clothing, then?

She crosses her arms.]

I don't live in Dark World.

Domino. Originally.

[ivarkwright]

Domino?

[He laughed almost obnoxiously.]

You've got to be kidding. Domino has been gone for ages.

Most of it was in ruins for a long time too.

[hellkaiserin]

[Oh, so he's obnoxious and from the future. This is not her day.]

Mm.

[So it's not just people from her location, or even her time period...?

She starts to scan the room again.]

[ivarkwright]

[He watches her look around the room, having no such need to scan it again.

Honestly, you can only look at the same few people so many times before they get boring. He'd already grown bored of drawing comedic representations of everyone on a spare napkin he had found with the pen he uses for signing autographs.

Though for the first ten minutes they were rather hilarious.]

So, got a hot date you're expecting?

[hellkaiserin]

[...She looks distinctly unimpressed.]

Forward of you.

[She'll concede that she's wearing a leather coat and a dress that's practically painted on in a public area, but...it's a heel thing, okay.]

[ivarkwright]

[He has indeed noticed that the women he's talking to may have waltzed directly out of one of those naught BDSM Magazines his older brother used to keep under his bed.

Those were not the things you'd want to see at age 11. But that is a story for another time.]

Never heard the saying? It's usually said when someone you're speaking to seems to be focused on someone, or something else.

[hellkaiserin]

Mm. Never.

Have you not wondered why we're here?

[She doesn't really appreciate missing out on her death duel.]

[ivarkwright]

Oh, I wonder a whole lot. But wondering does nothing really.

It'd take a whole investigation to find out why we're here. Maybe we're just here to spread dueling like religion.

[hellkaiserin]

I'm not an evangelist.

[Sometimes she wonders if she's the only DA attendee who didn't end up in a cult of some sort during their high school career.]

And if it would take an investigation, then I'll investigate.

[ivarkwright]

And how do you plan to investigate? It's not like you're a detective or anything.

I haven't seen any staff here, so there's got to be some force behind it. To keep it operational I mean.

[hellkaiserin]

You don't have to be a detective to use your eyes.

I plan on finding out what I can.

[ivarkwright]

But how will you know if it's out of the ordinary here? Or are you just going to examine everything.

Whatever you want to do you go on right ahead though. No one's here to stop you. At least no one I've met.

[hellkaiserin]

Don't patronize me. I know I can do what I want.

[She turns as if to leave.]

[ivarkwright]

So if you don't come back shall I tell everyone you passed?
Heavens knows it's not safe to go alone here.

[He smirks, not attempting to stop her from leaving.]

Or should I just let them try, and guess.

[hellkaiserin]

[She stops, doesn't turn around.]

You think I'll die so easily?

[ivarkwright]

You never know what could happen here. It could just be a terrible, awful accident.

That you never ever return from.

[hellkaiserin]

Is that a threat?

[This time, she does turn around.]

[ivarkwright]

Oh, of course not.

More like a grave warning.

[He burst into a fit of sinister laughter as she turned to him.

(This was almost like a game of peek-a-boo. How she would turn away, and face him again. How fun.)

He can't help but smile.]

If you want me to make it a threat I can.