♫ Desert Bluebird ♫ [Inactive since 04/03/2013]

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"AGHHH!" Renia shouted in discontent at her brother's choice of wording the truth to her.  She kicked the sand in frustration but for a moment she rearranged her composition to find that her hyena brother was approaching her but sadly, she wouldn't be able to toy with one of her favorite toys.

Gilda sighed while pulling out a towel from her passenger seat and hurled it at Lorencio's shoulder which it surprisingly landed on. As she turned back without another word, she knelt down to see the status of Anne's sanity. She whistled out from the twins to come.

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<sub>Lorencio was startled when the towel hit his shoulder, and he spun around, snarling for a moment. The thought ran through his mind he was being attacked...then he realized it was just a piece of cloth. Carrying the cloth in his jaws back to his sister, he sits down next to her and proceeds to change back into human shape. After transferring the towel from his mouth to his hand, he dabs gingerly at his busted nose. "All that mess and it wasn't even the right girl. You were lying, old woman." He growls at the witch.

Elluka just shrugs in boredom. "I like watching you two make fools out of yourselves." This was her only reply as she started walking back to her small group to make sure no one died or anything. Only when she got far enough away did she let the confusion show on her face. Anne was the girl that the MotG sent them to hunt down, why did he back off?

Like two trained puppies, the children immediately bundle to Gilda's side, not saying a word. Anne looked less terrified now that the man was gone, and had removed herself from the fetal position.</sub>

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[[ Eeee~ ]]

"I apologize for my actions," she humbly apologized yet again with a swift bow of her head with her Marlonian accent slipping out a bit.

Renia escaped a low growl as well towards the witch but she sighed while noting her brother's face. "PFFF- What happened to YOU?" She covered her mouth softly with a wicked giggle but she furrowed her eyebrows. "To the town then?"

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_{"That stupid woman stopped her motorcycle short." Lorencio grumbles, still mopping blood from his nose. Anyone that could die would've been dead by now, probably. "We might as well." He agrees with his sister, even if he didn't look to be in the mood for a scavenger hunt anymore.}

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Gilda glanced up to see the wounded Elluka approaching but the style of the scar was already turning the gears of her mind, knowing how Renia enjoyed marking those she defeated. 'Renia...' She shook the name out of her mind, fathoming that the cut was already dripping out blood as thus, she rushed over to the passenger seat and pulled out her newly refilled canteen of water as the scavenging of last night provided that. She soon walked over to Elluka with the canteen of water as she politely held it out, "--Eluka, here." Her voice now sounded more like the Gilda that she presented herself as the Marlonian accent as well disappeared .

As she noted how the witch looked down and showed a face of confusion, she couldn't help but feel the same. However, her eyes averted over her shoulders to see the figures of Renia and Lorencio seemingly have a small and joyful talk, assuming that from Renia's mannerism but she felt the blue eyes meet her own stare. She softly shook her head to find herself being teased by a stuck out tongue but she allowed that to slide.





"Beaten by a girl..? Again?" Renia cackled while placing an arm around her bloody brother but there was a note taken at the damage done to her brother. While Lorencio was acting like a drama queen over his broken nose, the goddess of mischief glanced over her shoulder towards the group that were being reintroduced after their ambush. Her stare was met by the concerned one of the Vector of Protection seeing as how the Vector approached the Vector of Memory with a canteen of water.

'I'll get her,' she smiled with a biy of sadistic joy as she playfully stuck out her tongue at Gilda as the Vector of Memory shook her head in displeasure at the goddess' antics. She huffed a bit in arrogance momentarily as she began to drag Lorencio with still her arm around his neck towards the town. "Come on!"

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<sub>Lorencio, as usual, just lets himself be dragged without complaint, but did retort to her taunt. "Was not beaten by a girl. I was beaten by a vehicle." He mutters. His nose having stopped bleeding her brother starts walking on his own again.

"Wha-? Oh...ah...thank you." Elluka replies, taking the canteen and getting a small piece of cloth from her own bag. Dabbing a few drops of water on the cloth, she hands the canteen back to the Vector of Protection. Trying to clean the cut gingerly (even for a witch, the fair-skinned woman seemed to be sensitive to cuts and such, especially one that deep) she remains silent, as if thinking.

Noir was rubbing his nose for some reason, making a face. Looking over at the boy, his sister asks, "Are you alright?" Nodding in an attempt to reassure the girl, he answers, "Yeah, I'm fine. Seeing that guy crash into the back of the motorcycle...I was just imagining how much it must've hurt. Guy had some balls to continue chasing us afterwards."

"Or he was a god..." The blonde girl points in quietly, shrugging. She was almost certain that the boy had been the Stupid Butler. Who else could transform into a hyena, refer to a mistress and sister, and have such good manners regarding killing them? In the irony of the situation, she seemed to have recognized the Butler, before either his incarnation or his sister's incarnation had realized it.</sub>

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"Mm'hmm," was all Renia could've responded as now they were heading off to the town still, and that was as well the same location that the group was heading to. Irony.

Gilda nodded her head softly and watched the witch sanitize a piece of cloth that she had in her bag. She gently took the canteen back with her feet dragging through the sand as she began to store it away but she bend over into the seat first. She glanced up at Anne to find that she had finally loosen herself from the fetal position and she held out the canteen, "Do you want a drink? You've certainly paled from the ambush." However, the conversation of the other twins present inflicted her with sudden curiosity but she held herself back, just listening in until she allowed something to slip out.

"Why would the Gods bother to come down when surely they are certainly powerful and all knowing," Gilda questioned Lumiere as she looked up to the female twin with still, canteen in hand if Anne wanted it.

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<sub>Noir decided to answer instead of Lumi. "Well, both of them seemed to have been going after after Anne. Then Mother distracted the girl, and you made the guy change his mind." Turns out, the twins had been discussing the goings on while they were happening, and had been trying to find a theory about why this was happening. "So, whether they were gods or not, there's something special about you that someone seems to want. I heard them mention a Master, then a Mistress of theirs. Slave dealers, perhaps? Bounty hunters?" His sister takes up the explanation from there. "So either Anne is wanted by the gods, or wanted by some slave traders slash bounty hunters." Finishing the explanation, the twins had spoke together, then looked up at Gilda, waiting to see her opinion on the matter.

Anne shakes her head at the offer of the drink, watching the twins curiously. She seemed to be jumpy around the duo after the attack. Or she could just be jumpy all together. Being attacked by people transforming into hyenas saying that they wanted her out of all people was not good for the nerves.</sub>

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Gilda calmly nodded her head at the blonde teenager as she placed away the canteen but resumed listening to the discussion going on with herself and the twins. As she turned her head, giving her respected attention to each twin as they've elaborated onto what they were thinking. However, the mentioning that she mediated Lorencio from abducting the child surprised her but she she would ask what did she say later, possibly making the excuse that the fever of adrenaline made her forget.

Surely the twins must have remembered her skepticism regarding the existence of the deities or any supernatural or upper being(s) but she regressed and just spoke, "Humans have a very sick tenancy of playing  around with the thought of religion, Noir and Lumiere. The advancements of the world that we're surviving in is overwhelming as already, New Humanity, is making the majority of our race into their own puppets. Holograms can be easily used to confuse others and as Elluka mentioned last night of how distinctive and rare blonde hair is, those slave holders must have wanted Anne." As she looked at her hand and stretched it out, having several moments to contemplate, she glanced upwards back to the twins. "Have the stories your mother ever indicated how the Gods ever did come down for any special occasions?"

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_{"Well, most of the gods do not come down and mingle with the mortals. The Four Masters seem too busy to do so, and Gear is permanently bound to his Clocktower. The only ones that ever come down to the mortal world are the Wicked Maid and the Stupid Butler. In fact...they come down quite often. Both of them are usually the errand runners for the Masters, such as we just witnessed. The Wicked Maid usually just comes down to mess with anyone she's interested in. Usually in rather sadistic ways. The Stupid Butler seems to harass people less on his own will, but he'll come down merely to pretend to be human for a bit and then run away. Humans seem to interest him greatly." Elluka answered the question herself, finally done cleaning the wound Renia left. "I know for a fact, those were not slave holders. Call me a superstitious old crone if you want, but those two were the real deal. Slave holders would not study history enough to know the way the Wicked Maid acted. How did the one pursuing you act?" Looking over at Gilda, the witch was frowning. She didn't know what in the name of the Master of the Heavenly Yard made the Stupid Butler disobey both his mistress's and his sister's orders to find the girl, and she wanted to find out.}