third staff ♞ a wheel rolling out of control

[beknightedheroine]

Characters: Sayaka, Lina, and Vanitas - open in the first half, closed in the second.
Setting: All over the place, and then on Floor 18 for Fun Confrontations
Format: Starting prose, but I'll match.
Summary: Sayaka just played chinese whispers as to a kidnapping, and mostly knows that she wants to show stabs to the one responsible. Lina will get recruited to help.
Warnings: One slant-haired bluenette flipping out.


ON THE WAY TO FLOOR 18:

She's armed with a vague description, a damn good motivation, and an already guttering soul gem. Sayaka Miki is ready to make someone hurt, someone who's a real bad guy, someone who's done wrong to someone else - it's a clear enemy to throw herself against, and that, if not anything, is what she's inwardly railed to have.

Sayaka Miki is not thinking very clearly right now, but she really doesn't care. That blueish blur that just went by you? That's probably her, storming ever forwards on a damned quest.

~AT~ FLOOR 18:

The lights flicker more than usual as she hops up the last of the stairs to this floor, shoes clicking with an echo - this is one of the floors Sayaka's seen people in the least in her time in the tower, and to her mind, thus the best place to look. Witches hid. Normal criminals hid.

She pays little mind to if her sudden-companion-in-angry-quests is still behind her. Lina can do what she wants, far as she cares. Sayaka kicks away anything in the way of her path, from table to shitty flimsy chair to abandoned book. If she makes a racket, she might startle birds from the trees, as it were.

It's luck (or, rather, the extreme opposite of it) that she actually finds the guy.

Comments

On the way!

[dragonspooker]

...well, that was a somewhat familiar blue blur.

"Hoy, where's the fire?"

[beknightedheroine]

"Fire?" With a little difficulty, she stops, and turns on a dime to face Lina. Oh god, what's going wrong now.

What's understanding figures of speech when in angry charge mode.

[dragonspooker]

Lina huffs, then gestures at Sayaka. "Where are you off to in such a hurry? That's what I'm asking."

[beknightedheroine]

"..Oh, that's all? In that case, I don't have time to explain things to you."

Yeah, Sayaka's just gonna turn her back on you and start picking up pace again.

[dragonspooker]

"Grr...! RAY WING!" Lina lifts from the ground and zips past Sayaka, coming to a sliding stop in front of her. "Look - I know we don't get along, but if there's trouble here..." She made a face - saying this was hard, and so very much more suited to certain princesses of justice. "...just wanna make sure it ain't something that's gonna put kids in danger, alright?"

[beknightedheroine]

"..."

Arguing with Lina did take ages, and she had less patience now for that than anything. "Fine. A guy named Vanitas kidnapped a girl. Now I'm going to find him and make him regret it. So yeah, kids in danger, sure."

She lets her head tilt to the side, dissatisfaction with being held up clear on her face. "Now can I go?"

[dragonspooker]

"...kidnapped..."

The sorceress growls with clenched fists, then steps out of Sayaka's way. "Yeah, go on - but I'm followin'. Things are bad enough here without someone doin' crap like this."

[beknightedheroine]

"Long as you can keep up."

And she means it. Sayaka's back to angry charge mode in a flash.

[dragonspooker]

"...cripes, that's fast," Lina mutters, then dashes off after Sayaka. Hopefully, it wouldn't be too far. It'd kind of suck to get all the way there and be drained...