ALSO for Crossroads

[the_potato_girl]

-1-


[Girl in the (insert guild here) cafeteria! Either with you, or just nearby.

Whatever the situation, she seems to have piled her plate up with easily enough food for two large people, and is tearing into it with reckless enthusiasm bordering on frantic urgency.

Barely even stopping to breathe. Is this the way that sane people eat?]

-2-


You know, some days I hear a lot of complaining around this place. It's hard to get home, there's too much paperwork, missing this person or that person... Sometimes it's a good idea to sit back for a minute and think about how ridiculously good we have it here.

We've got delicious food.
We've got clean water.
We've got beds with roofs over our heads.
Almost nobody is trying to kill us.

Isn't it great that we can complain about little things like paperwork instead of all that?


-3-


[At Arracht Airéine! Out near the monster cages. Sasha's standing in front of one of the cages, one holding some kind of giant/troll/ogre creature, rooted to the spot. Her eyes never leave it.

Her expression is a mix of fear, disbelief, and raw, focused hate.]

They... can't get out, right?

We're sure they can't get out?

Comments

1

[pants_are_overrated]

Geez, leave some for the rest of us why don't you.

Re: 1

[the_potato_girl]

There's plenty! I could eat twice this much and nobody'd go hungry.

[pants_are_overrated]

I won't go hungry, but you've got the last baked potato in there.

[the_potato_girl]

I did?

[...Discreetly moving plate away from Gray.]

[pants_are_overrated]

I don't suppose you'd want to share one of those potatoes?

[the_potato_girl]

[THE BEST WAY TO SAVE THE POTATO IS TO START EATING IT AS FAST AS POSSIBLE]

[pants_are_overrated]

[Fuck it, time to solve this problem the Fairy Tail style.

GRAB THE OTHER HALF FOR YOURSELF!]

[the_potato_girl]

[A FORK MOVES LIKE LIGHTNING TO CLAIM FOOD. THE STRIKE CONNECTS




WITH GRAY'S PORK CHOP.]

3

[all_onis_are_true]

*He may be here to study some of the monsters, but that doesn't make him feel any more comfortable around them. Especially that one.*

Supposedly they triple-check every cage before they use it, so I'm going to assume they have the sense to ensure it's sturdy enough to hold them.

*Hey, a cage kinda saved HIS life once.*

Re: 3

[the_potato_girl]

Then maybe we should get someone in here to kill them.

[all_onis_are_true]

I understand how you feel...

*OH does he ever understand how she feels.*

...but we still need to study these things. The more we can understand of them in captivity, the more people can know about them if they encounter them in the wild.

[the_potato_girl]

That's...

[Dammit, the kid's got a point.]

...I guess I can't really argue against it. Still, I'd feel better if they were at the furthest, safest corner of the city, rather than right in the middle of it.

[all_onis_are_true]

Yes, well the MONSTER catching is logical. Nothing about the Hounds, however, even approaches logic.

[the_potato_girl]

I think I like the Hounds well enough when they're just fighting each other.

3

[dragonraging]

[That big statue on the low roof? It isn't a statue.]

Bah! Do you think so little of the Arracht's construction? Such a pitiful beast has no hope of escape.

[the_potato_girl]

[Sometimes old instincts die hard. Sasha bolts.]

[dragonraging]

[No matter how many times he does it, he never gets tired of that. Wagner's unpleasant booming laughter echoes through the building as Sasha gets the hell out of Dodge.]

[the_potato_girl]

[Fucking dragons, am I right?]