New Year's @ the Strip!

[birthright_npc]

The festivities on the Las Vegas strip were your basic police nightmare. A mile-long stretch of the boulevard was blocked off to traffic so that revelers could stagger drunkenly down the middle of the street. Food trucks and street vendors sold pizza, cheese steaks, popcorn, cotton candy, and plastic cups full of beer. Some sold pre-mixed margaritas and daiquiris. At each major intersection, a stage showcased performers and music pumped from speakers mounted on the light posts.

It didn't seem to matter that it was December in the desert. There was plenty of body heat to go around.

At midnight, several large screens would broadcast a countdown before fireworks lit the sky.

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Re: A Were and a Vampiress meet

[cian_oneill]

He eyed her, a tiny lift of the chin lending some sort of confirmation to her statement. "Aye. A coward," he repeated, still seeing Rhiannon's face as she told him who it was, even as she was lying there in the hotel.

"Did y' catch her?" he asked Deanna, "Katherine?" he added, confirming that they did know who it was who'd done the stabbing.

Re: A Were and a Vampiress meet

[deannas]

Ah, so that was her name...

Deanna considered telling the truth just then, that she'd spent a few brief seconds with the other vampiress, had spoken near gibberish before storming off back to the hotel.

But where was the fun in that? The redhead liked to play games, on occasion. She was also very good at running a long con.

"Caught her as she was trying to crawl up a fire escape a block from the Skylark, traded a few blows. I wasn't exactly dressed for a drawn-out fight, and she used it against me."

Re: A Were and a Vampiress meet

[cian_oneill]

Cian's eyebrow arched slightly as she spoke, taking her words with a large grain of salt. When he'd asked around after the attacker by name he'd heard nothing of her having had any scuffle after. But he realised it wouldn't be something she'd admit, so it would only have been eye witnesses who might have been able to report on it, and there was no saying there were any.

Except Deanna.

He shrugged. "She'll pay," was all he said, then added, "hope she broke a nail," in a soft snarl, something he hadn't said in a very long time, and wouldn't mean anything to anyone except him, and a long gone companion of his.

Re: A Were and a Vampiress meet

[deannas]

"Good luck with that," she offered. "I can tell you this much. Katherine is old...er, like me. We're a lot harder to kill."

A group of three girls stumbled into their path, and one, a blonde, careened into the redhead. She took mental note. The girl was going to be the redhead's noisemaker shortly.

Re: A Were and a Vampiress meet

[cian_oneill]

Cian's eyes narrowed as he watched Deanna look at the girl who bumped her. "She's my favourite kind, a coward," he told her calmly, "and they all have a price." He gave a cold smile as he added, "and she's been paid hers."

He glanced after the girls then looked back at Deanna. "Thanks for the information though, I'll be sure to keep my eye out for the 'oldies'," he added, pushing his hands into the pockets of his leather jacket.

Re: A Were and a Vampiress meet

[deannas]

"One man's coward..." she began, before trailing off. Deanna, like Katherine, picked their battles. Except that one time she went up against a telekinetic on a whim and got glass jammed in her throat. You were more assured a win if you knew your enemy, and Rhiannon had clearly been studied.

Studied. Student. Teacher. Watcher. Council.

Who else would hire a vampire to kill a Slayer?

Deanna smiled at the man, a mischievous grin. "Thanks for the info. Give my best to your girl, and tell her I hope she gets better soon."

Re: A Were and a Vampiress meet

[cian_oneill]

He gave the redhead a brief nod and turned, making his way through the crowd to the girls who had bumped into Deanna earlier. He picked the one who looked up at him first, the least drunk, and told her to get her friend home, but not take any alleys or empty streets.

"Y' gotta be careful who's out t'night," he added, the girl looking at him strangely, but at least apparently taking in his warning.

He didn't go directly back to the hotel, but helped another girl pick up her boyfriend who'd just lost an argument with a pole he'd tried to climb as a dare, and failed miserably. He sighed softly to himself and looked around, slipping into a side alley and making his way around to the back entrance of the hotel. He wasn't about to lead anyone watching him back to where they were staying that night.