entranceway | Video; early morning of 01/19

[The woman who pops onto the screen? She doesn't look at all pleased. She's disheveled and incredibly sore, but at least she's been able to have a shower since things have returned to normal. She'd woken up in her own bed, having muddied up the sheets -- so, okay, she's still pretty annoyed.

Still, it had occurred to her that she'd done something a little bit irresponsible the night before. It had been motivated by anger, certainly, but it isn't as if she'd killed the man -- still, she needs to get it off her chest and just make sure that he's -- you know, still alive.

She clears her throat.]

Uh, all right -- this message is especially for Alistair, or for anyone from his world -- now that this thing is working again.

I was attacked in the forest last night by someone accusing me of being a demon, so I thought that you guys might know him. I knocked him out and left him tied up outside the tavern, so I don't know where he'd be now.

[She scowls.]

And just to clear it up for anyone who might be wondering ... I'm not a demon.

[She motions to her hair.]

I mean, do you see a set of pointy horns? I have no interest in your immortal soul, okay? So further attempts to end me? Not going to be dealt with so gently.

[It's a bit of posturing since she's never actually killed anyone, but...they don't need to know that.]

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[ Brennan doesn't always pay a lot of attention to the network - mostly because he forgets it's there, but with the event ending and things coming back to normal, he checks just to see if there's any explanation for... whatever all that was about.

Instead he finds this, and it has him squinting in confusion for a moment before opening a feed to reply. ]

Apparently we've started an infestation and I hadn't even realized it. My apologies, my lady. Are you hurt?

[ He's still friendly and polite despite his surprise at seeing... well. Her. He can sort of see how an overwhelmed newcomer might be mistaken, especially if they were the suspicious sort and alarmed already, but that's still no excuse. ]

Might I inquire if you know the identity of your attacker? At the very least someone should find him and make sure he doesn't attack anyone else.

[Deep down, Mystique knows that the man being startled wasn't entirely unwarranted - but she'd been trying to be nice to him, and she'd already resolved not to hide in this place.

That was the reason, among others, that she hadn't tried to kill the man -- just incapacitate him.]

It isn't your apology that I want. And from what I understand, his name is Cullen. If he attacks someone else, they might not be so kind.

[ Something the Inquisitor appreciates immensely, as the man's pretty invaluable to him, when he's not... attacking innocent women in a confused panic, apparently. ]

Oh, Maker. Well that... [ He groans, scrubbing a hand over his face as he gets up, because yes, that means he's going to have to find the man before everything else. ] He won't. I'll find him. And it won't happen again. It shouldn't have happened at all, but... [ He makes a face. ] Cullen has an unpleasant and complicated past where demons are concerned. It doesn't excuse what he did, but I'm afraid it may had had him acting much more irrationally than he would have otherwise, especially combined with the confusion of just arriving here.

Well, there's a reason I didn't just leave him in the middle of the woods for that Beast to find.

[See, she can be nice and diplomatic when she has to be -- which she does, in this place, if she wants to keep being free of people trying to kill her on a regular basis.]

Gee, thanks. I guess that's kind of the best I can hope for.

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