[I’m a dumbass, and due to fucked up IRL shit, i forgot her flaw. Therefor, with permission of the other player, everything Kiana said in this scene was written. she’s fuckin mute.]
Kiana Knowles
There are many places to hide in San Francisco. Chinatown is one of them – there are so many people, so many little alleyways and hideyholes and little places where one can disappear and not ever be found again. It’s why she likes it, truth be told. Exactly why.
From somewhere in one of these little hideaways, a slim figure emerges. Scuffed up shoes, tattered jeans, battered hoodie with the hood pulled up over her hair. She walks quickly, slipping into the mainstream with the ease of a dancer, each movement graceful and designed to help her blend in, keep close to the shadows, and not touch a single soul, or draw attention to herself. At least not until she’s far from where she emerged.
Her belly rumbles, the reason she had emerged in the first place. She stops at a food cart, digs out some hard earned cash, and gets herself a bowl of noodles with chicken and spices. She grins a little at the vender – it’s not her first visit, and then tugs her hoodie low again as she hops up on a stone wall near by, and digs into her meal like she hasn’t eaten in a week.
Tesla Orloz
This food cart is a popular choice today, people continue to stop by, grab a bowl or a bag or whatever else might be used to contain the food that the cart sells. One such individual comes up to the cart with a short stride and a big smile.
Dressed in a pair of dark jeans, a red blouse a denim jacket and a pair of brass coloured wedges the short woman, surely standing no taller then 5’3 without those height adding wedges tilted her head with an adorable smile and wide curious eyes. She spoke fluent cantonese as she stood there, her voice high and peppy her head bobbing as she spoke. In the end she received a bowl of udon and beef and paid with that adorable smile and a thank you on her lips.
She spun on one heel then, the other foot almost kicking out before her as she looked around and finally those saucers that were her eyes panned upward and found Kiana on the wall. Her head tilted from side to side before she stepped up to the wall.
“Hi!” She said energetically as she put her food on the wall. “So is it good, or should I be ready for gut wrenching bowel splitting terror hmm? I bet its good, it smells good.”
Kiana Knowles
Kiana… blinks. She was watching, as she’s always watching, but someone so… so… so… bubbly… takes her back for a moment. Then, holy hell in a handbasket, she’s talking to her. Kiana blinks again, and studies her for a moment, and then shrugs a shoulder.
“Its ok.”
She reaches up and scratches her chin, absently, and then takes another bite of her noodles, working the chopsticks like a Chinatown natie.
Tesla Orloz
“Its ok, thats your best review is it? Straight to the point huh, well at least there will be no bowel splitting terror.” She said as she reached up and slowly hauls her ass up onto the wall and turned around moving herself from side to side as she tried to get comfortable.
She pops open her bowl and pulls apart her chopsticks after setting the bowl on her lap, her feet kicking gently in the air. When she at last had sticks cleaned she picked up a piece of beef looking over at Kiana.
“I’m Tessa, nice to share your wall for lunch.”
Kiana Knowles
She grunts something around her mouthful as Tesla debates her choice of reviews, and watches as she makes herself comfortable next to her on the wall. Kiana hitches a foot open, slightly, to brace her heel against a stone that’s stuck out, slightly. The other swings free to thump on the wall itself, as she glances at Tessa and back to the area around them.
“Kiana.”
She scratches at her chin again, and it moves the hoodie back slightly, just enough to show the shadows of healing bruising along her cheekbone. She tugs it absently back into place and takes another bite as she continues to people watch.
Tesla Orloz
“Niiice Kiana, thats is a great name. Kinda rolls off the tongue.” She says bobbing her head as she turned and took in the sights as well, her legs still kicking freely in the air, only gently slapping against the brick fascade as she did so.
Big expressive eyes darted here and there, not in anxiety or fear, but simply eager to take in as much of what she sees as possible. Something she does note is a man, dressed in a fur coat…even in this weather. She gently nudged Kiana then and hunched slightly, as if it might make her less obvious as she pointed at the man with her chopsticks.
“How much do you wanna bet grizzly adams over there is sweating like a bacon on a frying pan?” She asked with a giggle held back, even thought her body reacted as if it were flowing from her mouth. “I bet if you ran your hand down his back it would feel like a water slide.”
Kiana Knowles
She glances at her over exhuberent dinner date, and blinks, again. Then she points out the man, and Kiana snorts – almost choking on her noodles as Tesla mentions a water slide..
“That is, hands down, the most disgusting thing I’ve heard today.” If only she knew the types of things she usually hears? That’s saying a lot. “Couldn’t pay me enough to get on that ride…”
Tesla Orloz
“A giggle issued forth at that point, no longer bared by expressive lips the sound infectious as Tessa rocked back and forth, quickly cradling her noodle bowl before it fell from her lap. “Sorry, I can’t help myself, its to funny not to mention. I mean…you gotta mention stuff like that.”
She stuffs another piece of beef into her mouth and chews it with enthusiasm enjoying it even as she wolfs it down.
“So does that mean you’d turn down the dare to go and find out?” She asked, brows raising high into her bangs as she looked over at Kiana. “I mean if you won’t do it I will, just thought I’d give you the first crack….so to speak.” Her lips twitched again, trying to keep herself from laughing at her own jokes, even as her eyes laughed.
Kiana Knowles
does that mean she’d turn down a dare…. “Depends on the stakes.” Honesty, in that. but she gestures with her chopsticks. “But I’d rather not lose my dinner – had to work too hard to pay for it. So by all means, kemosabe, touch away…”
Then her lips curve into a bemused grin. “Just say no to crack…”
Tesla Orloz
Tessa shrugged gently before she looked at Kiana with that adorable smile spread across her features. “Alright girlfriend, but….I keep the spoils. Wanna watch my food? Please don’t let flies in, i get enough protein as it is. K thanks.”
At that the bowl was set down between them and Tessa casually dropped to the concrete, with a little ‘uff’ she hit and was up walking, heading around behind the man, easy to do in a crowd.
[Sneaky sneaky]
Dice: 7 d10 TN6 (1, 1, 1, 4, 5, 7, 9) ( fail )
Kiana Knowles
She watches her, making sure that her food doesn’t get any flies in it as Tessa goes about seeing if the man does indeed sweat like burning bacon, if his back is a waterslide of disgustingness… all it will take is a touch, and the little one [not that Kiana is very big herself, but Tessa is tiny!] does her best to sneak up…
She chuckles, briefly. Who knew tonight would include a show with the meal. She pushes her hoodie back a little, dark hair falling free to frame her face as she takes another bite and chews absently…
Tesla Orloz
Tessa had a plan oh yes she did, a big plan to get a big pay off, and a little hilarity on the way. She did however, forget one thing as she slipped up behind the man in his big furry coat….she wasn’t wearing her normal shoes, no she had to be fashionable today and wear wedges. Not but a few steps away Tessa trips up and wheeling her arms around her as she tries to steady herself, she goes right into the mans back, fur coat and all. “Eeep!”
It would be comical, infact it really is as she ends up practically hugging the man to get her balance, he of course takes note that shes there and raises a brow looking disgruntled. The smile of the little woman before him however doused his fury and she bowed a few times. “Sorry, sorry! it was my mistake these wedges are just so talll.” She says as she points to the shoes on her feet. He chuckles and nods and when he does she beams reaching into hug the man.
“Your such a great guy, thanks for not gettin angry at me! I like your coat, its fuzzy.” She says as she pulls away. “Bye now!”
[Stealy stealy WP]
Dice: 7 d10 TN6 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10) ( success x 3 )
Kiana Knowles
Tessa trips. And ends up hugging the man, and Kiana can’t help it – she starts to laugh, hiding it behind her hand, and tugging the hoodie back down to help mask her features even as she watches through dark lashes. It has to be the funniest thing she’s seen all night… She almost loses it completely when tesla goes back in for an actual hug afterwards, and heads back toward the wall and her dinner…
…and her laughing companion. “Oh. Em. Gesus, that’s got to be the funniest thing ever….” she’s rubs at the corner of her eye with the heel of her hand, still chuckling….
Tesla Orloz
Tessa almost struts, yes struts as she comes back up to the wall and poses hands on her hips before she holds up one hand…which seems to shine in the evening light. “He’d be better then a slip and slide…now hurry and toss me a napkin before it comes alive and tries to kiss me.” She says as her face goes from smiling potently to a mix of disgust and laughter.
She reaches up, either accepting napkins from Kiana or taking some of her own and wipes her hands furiously until she can’t see the shine anymore and then tosses the napkin in a bit. A moment later she is hoping back up onto the wall and beaming at Kiana.
“You wanna touch?” She asks deviously as she holds out a hand and pretends to try and touch the other woman, that infectious laughter filling the air.
Kiana Knowles
She hands over not just Tessa’s napkins, but her own as well, making a face at the obvious sweat collected… and then when she threatens to touch, Kiana all but physically recoils…
“Ugh! No way! I have to deal with enough sweaty people in my line of work – that one is all for you bab. Enjoy!”
It’s one thing to have her fist slip off some dudes sweaty ribs or chin, but another to touch someone who thinks a fur coat is perfect for August…
Tesla Orloz
Tessa simply laughs, her voice high and clear before she lets out a snort and is raising her other hand to cover her mouth. “Oh…oh ok…i need to breath…breathing is good.” She says as she at last takes a deep, calming breath and seems to still for a moment, her eyes tracking around and finding furcoat man, who is already far down the street.
Another smile crosses Tessa’s face then, as she leans in and nudges Kiana with her shoulder before a hand slips out and offering her a ten dollar bill. “For being such a good audience.”
Her brows rose several times before her gaze shot down the street to furcoat and then back to Kiana.
Kiana Knowles
She arches a brow, slightly, and then with a smooth move of her hand, she palms the $10, like exchanging money on the sly is something she’s done a thousand times, and well, it might very well be. The money disappears into a pocket, and she chuckles before she chases a bite of noodles around her bowl and props it into her mouth.
“You just do that shit for fun, or a living?” Curious, only.
Tesla Orloz
“Can’t it be both? Of course it can, I am like Harry Houdini with boobs and fewer straight jackets, not of course that those aren’t fun and all but…pain in the ass, you know what I’m saying?” She grins as he picks up her bowl once more and starts to pick through it, looking for something choice.
It was like she hadn’t just robbed the man, her feet kicking idly in the air. Like it had all just been a dream.
Kiana Knowles
She blinks, and studies the girl again, before she shakes her head. “Sure, guess it can be. I ain’t judging, believe me. I done worse.”
She watches the passersby, while stealing looks at her companion on occasion. Interesting one, this one. Mama’d get a kick out of her sure. She finishes up her dinner, and tosses the bowl into the nearby can, before pulling her hood down, wrapping up her hair into a messy bun, and sticking the chopsticks into it to hold it in place. She pulls her hood back up again, then, and nods. “Much better.”
Of course, the brief time it took her to do so shows off that healing set of bruises, too, but she says nothing of it.
Tesla Orloz
By this time Tessa had given up on picking her way through the food and had just gone for eating her mouth full of food she had been chewing away Idly as she watched KIana be ever so practical, taking up her left over chopsticks and sticking them in her hair. Her mouth still partially full of food all Tessa can do is smile and point with her own chopsticks to hers before giving a thumbs up and seems to shake as if she were laughing.
When at last she swallowed she took a deep breath and spoke. “Thats really handy, I can’t believe I’ve never done that….oh wait.” She checks her own hair which it seems by nature, to be straight and glossy. “Noow I remember why.” She shakes her head.
“Sorry I’ve just had a wild few nights, met someone amazing, might be a true love thing, I could see it..I really could.” She smiles to herself then, its a smaller smile, not anything like the adorable look she usually had been wearing before looking over at Kiana once more.
“I don’t like to pry but it looks like you’ve had some wild nights as well.”
Kiana Knowles
A true love thing. That brings a twist to Kiana’s lips, one of disbelief, and amusement all at the same time. She doesn’t believe in the true love shit – once bitten, twice shy, and all of that. She does manage a “Hope it works out for ya.” and even manages to keep the doubt from her voice.
mostly.
As for her, she pulls a pack of gum from her pocket and frees a piece, folding it into her mouth before tucking it away again. She’s had some wild nights? She snorts and shrugs, slightly. “I’m a fighter.”
True in oh so many ways….
Tesla Orloz
A fighter, more importantly a woman fighter sat right next to her and Tessa’s eyes grew wide as saucers from the excitement as her lips spread into that infectious and adorable smile. “No…no wayyy! Your a fighter? Like get in the ring and fatality the crap outta people?” She asks as she looks her up and down.
“Can I feel your Bicep?” The tone in her voice is almost child like enthusiasm in it’s as she turned, tossing the remainder of her bowl into the garbage. She leaned in as if to get a better look at her.
“You totally beat up on guys don’t you? Like an amazon! But with both boobs.”
Kiana Knowles
An Amazon. With both boobs. KIana chuckles, again, and shakes her head. “Yeah, I fight both guys and girls. Don’t matter, they all hit the mat the same way.” Out cold, usually, when Kiana’s in fine form… and her form is fine right now, for sure.
She scratches her nose, slightly, and then shrugs. “….i guess you can feel. I’m not all bulky and shit though – just fast.” she holds up her arm and flexes – and she does indeed posses a wirey strength in the muscles under that sweatshirt.
Tesla Orloz
“That is amazing.” She says with genuine enthusiasm, and then she does it she reaches over and kneads the woman’s bicep feeling the strength that lay beneath, unlike Kiana, Tessa looks lithe, but not at all strong…she just might get beaten by a wet paper bag. “Oh woman you are hard.” She says with a waggle of her eyebrows and a momentary giggle before she lets her go and settles back into her own personal space.
“Thats how you take them down right? They’re all big and burly and slow and you just zip in and pow pow blam!” She illustrates the idea with quick but not particularly skilled jabs at the air before following up with what might be a haymaker for the blam, sound effects included as she did so.
Kiana Knowles
She shrugs, and shoves both her hands into the ‘roo pocket of her hoodie once Tessa is done manipulating her muscles and calling her hard.
“Something like that. Most guys are scared to hit a girl, even when I beat the shit out of them. they’ll get over it though. Most girls – well. We ain’t scared. We don’t have the option to be. So we fight all out, all the time. Their hesitation is their downfall.”
Tesla Orloz
Kiana speaks of the determination of the women fighters and how the option to be soft, the option to be scared is not there for them and something a iittle more serious enter’s the smaller woman’s gaze and her head bobs a few times as she looks down at her lap.
“Can’t hesitate right? If you do you wind up a smear on the ground and your ass covered in boot marks.” She leans back then, stretching out her small form and twisting her wrists around in a way that might make some people uncomfortable t see.
“I can just imagine the look on those boy’s faces when you lay them out flat, it must be like whoa….how’d I get down here, I sure hope my bro’s aint watching.”
Kiana Knowles
She nods, slightly, with a smirk. “Yeah, and then they get their bros and jump ya in a fuckin’ alleyway because ya embarrassed them. Took down two of them the other night for just that reason. Think this is bad?” a gesture toward her healing bruise. “You should fuckin’ see them. Pretty sure I broke shit.”
She watches the other girl stretch, idly, then turns her attention back to the street and those that pass by – on their way home, or dinner, or some nefarious night time activity. Idle watching, idle curiosity… but she misses very little…
Tesla Orloz
Tessa’s voice drops in its tone and she rolls those big eyes when she is told about being jumped in an alley for being better then some guy and she slowly shakes her head. “You know for being the half of the species that are supposed to have all the balls, boys can be really really big cowards.” In this she speaks like she has experience but even now, when shes a little less peppy, a little more serious she leans over and nudges the fighter with an elbow.
“Its totally girls like you that help relieve them of their excess ballsackery and for that I salute you Kiana.” She says holding out a hand, palm open and flat, looking for a high five maybe.
Kiana Knowles
She snorts her agreement, and nods, slightly. “They don’t want girls to fight beause they think we’re easy targets. When we prove the opposite, their delicate protective natures are disturbed and shit goes south. I blame the testosterone.
Tessa holds out a hand for a high five, and Kiana laughs. “No way are you suckering me into touching sweaty fur coats hand, woman. No freakin way.”
Tesla Orloz
Tessa blinks and looks at her hand. “Awww come on, don’t tell me Mrs Amazon is afraid of a little overripe man sweat.” She says with a impish little wink before holding out the other hand instead.
“Come on sister don’t leave me hanging.” She says as she puts the hand out towards her. “I swear it this is the good hand, it only likes handling things I like, like other peoples money.”
Her voice is sincere, or at least as sincere as Kiana can gather from the woman who can’t possibly be this bubbly on a regular basis, but seemed to be pulling it off marvelously…maybe she ran off batteries.
Kiana Knowles
She just shakes her head, and finally gives her a high five, chuckling. “If i were the type to do drugs – but I ain’t, cuz I fight fuckin’ clean – I’d ask what you were on, you know that? You are far to perky to be real.”
a beat, a smirk. “And I don’t mean just your tits.”
Tesla Orloz
“Yeahhh well perky is about all they have going for them.” She says looking down at her own tits, which were not large by any standard, but like so many smaller bodied women, would be perky well into their winter years. She shrugged excessively one foot kicking out before she crossed her arms and rested them on one leg, hunching forward to do so as she leaned over as if she were going to share a deep and meaningful secret.
“My secret?” She says briefly waggling her eyebrow’s. “A good solid eight to nine hours of sleep, every night without fail.” She says leaning back smiling so very wide, but somehow so very serious. “You should try it, its soooo great.” She says with a contented sigh as she looks out at those around them, all those people hurrying past, or stopping to eat a quick meal before moving on.
Kiana Knowles
Sleep. She smirks, slightly, and nods. “I’ll keep that in mind.”
The girl seems perfectly content with these words of wisdom, though she couldn’t possibly know that when Kiana sleeps it is that of the dead, and often for longer then 8-9 hours. She is not one who appreciates being woken up under the best of terms.
But she nods, slightly. She will never be as perky as Tessa, and she seems perfectly ok with that.
Tesla Orloz
The woman’s head starts bopping, not as a nod but one might almost think ti was with the movement of the crowd, as if she were reading some kind of beat out of their steps, or maybe it was just to the sound in her head. Regardless this continues for a few moments before she looked over at Kiana head still bobbing that adorable smile spreading across her lips as she giggles, perhaps at her own actions before she blinks and a big wide yawn escapes her mouth.
When it passes she blinks again and laughs. “Oh wow, I’m sorry you really didn’t need to see my tonsils, or my molars, hell you probably didn’t wanna see any of my mouth, but you just got the full vista.” She giggles as she looks down at the ground.
“But that means I’m just about ready for a hot date with a sweet dream.” Eagerness seemed to cross her face when she spoke of dreams and she looked over at Kiana. “Do you remember dreams?” She asks, her demeanour shifting to one of gentle curiosity.
Kiana Knowles
She arches a brow, slightly, and then shakes her head. “I don’t dream.”
Which, for someone like Kiana doesn’t mean anything more than she doesn’t remember them at all. She sleeps too long, too deep, and if she comes up too fast, it is not a dream but a nightmare instead.
Maybe it’s better that way. After all, if one doesn’t dream, their dreams won’t get broken. She shoots Tessa a little grin though and shrugs. “You rest well, though.”
Tesla Orloz
She blinks at that taken off guard for a moment before the smile returns and she pushes a knuckle against Kiana’s are nudging her over. “Ohhh you dream, you just don’t remember them. Guaranteed there in there sneaking around in your brain helping you sort through everything.” She winks at the woman. “Hell I bet tonight, there will be something just special enough to be me because I made you laugh so hard.”
“Hope your nice to me there.” She said as she straightened up and then dropped off the wall once more, looking so diminutive from the new perspective as she looked up at Kiana. “Well Kiana the amazonian bad ass ballsackery specialist. I can’t be leaving my dream waiting! They are very very picky.” She says as she raises one small fast hand and waved enthusiastically.
“I’ll see you alright? hope you don’t mind, your a keeper.” One more giggle escaping her lips before she prepared to leave.
Kiana Knowles
She blinks, and just nods, slightly, though she’s not quite sure why. “Alllllright. Yeah. Take care.”
She watches Tessa prepare to leave, and just watches her as she does… that was one of the weirder conversations she’s had in some time, and she’s had a few doozies. But she just lifts a hand in a wave, and once she’s gone, resumes her people watching.