Elliomn drinks the night away...
Back to the Shady Inn

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Tanuul, Innkeep (NPC)
Dtalk
Elliomn (NPC)
Drunk man #1
Kim Char
BadCat char

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Walking into the tavern, Dtalk, accompanied by [Kim_Lundin] and [BadCat], gestures to Tanuul, which the innkeep returns with a nod of his head. He motions to a corner of the pub, where Dtalk's comrade sits, drink in hand, listening to a human man talk loudly about his house burning down at the hands of the army of Kiee. Dtalk looks back to Kim and Catz, and issues them toward the elven man who sits with bleary eyes, looking angrily at the obnoxious man while he nearly screams his turmoils out.

Elliomn cries, "Hush, you fool! We have all fallen at the hands of that infernal country, you none more than any of us!!" His drink sloshes a bit, and pausing for a moment, he takes a long sip, and looks drowsily at Dtalk and the other two. "Talk! What're you doin' up, you fool?!? Do ya' hear this silli'ness this guy's talkin' abou'?" He stops to look at Kim and BadCat. "Who in th' Nine Hells are you?" he says to you both.

"That depends on you..." [Kim_Lundin] sais "Either we are just two who are about to ask you a simple question, get a straight answer, and then we will leave you alone... or I am about to ask you a question, force you to answer, which can take some time, and THEN we will leave you alone. It's your choice."

El raises a quizzical eyebrow, and takes another sip of his drink. Lowering his mug, he asks Dtalk, "What's 'is deal? Who are you bringing in here, now, Dalk?" Dtalk doesn't answer, but smirks and watches Elliomn with amusement. Getting up from his seat, the elf's body sways a bit drunkenly, and he walks forward. "So what 'd'ya got to ask me...?" he inquires, looking down his nose through bleary eyes. His way-too-long sword gleams on his back, like the light gleaming in his glazed-over eyes in the bright lamp-light of the inn. Lowerin his head, he looks beneath his brow at Kim, "Boy, you're a real tough guy, huh?" nudging him just enough to push him backwards, then stands chuckling to himself, his tongue touching his front incisor inside his cracked mouth.
Dtalk steps forward, his hand on El's shoulder, saying, "These two are looking for a man in a hooded robe, who seems to be rather a rather mysterious figure, and they believe that you would know where to find such a person."
Elliomn cries, a bit too loud, "I know a lot of misteerous figgers... Wha's it to ya?" directing a stare at Kim once more, eyelids drooping as he speaks.

"Well... he owes us money, and it's time for him to repay the debt... so, can you help us?"

El's head sways about a bit, and he asks, "D'ya know the guy's NAME...?" and stares at you blankly.

"He didn't tell his name..." [Kim_Lundin] sais.

Both Elliomn and Dtalk chuckle, although El's is a bit more boisterous and drunken, and his knees buckle a little as he laughs. Catching his balance, he looks you in the eye, and sais, "Well, if you don' know tha' guy's name, you haven' got a chance of findin' 'im... D'ya know how many peo'le've shown up in this village ov'r the past few days? A LOT! An' I'll tell ya, there's some real CRAZIES HERE..." He looks back to his previous table, where the human men are chuckling and talking loudly again.
Looking at Kim, he sighs once, and asks, "Are ya lookin' f'r thuh guy from yer inn? 'Cause he's gone... and the utther one's dead, someone told me... So it looks like yer dead outta cash, mah comprere!" and shakes his head a little for effect, jaw slacking.

"What happens to this guys friends I don't really cares about..." [Kim_Lundin] sais "Only if they have information... have you heard where the man went?"

"Nope"
Dtalk looks at him sternly and says merely, "El...."
"Oh, alright!! The GODS, Dtalk, you're such a goodie-goods... The guy that took off was caught by the town guards.."
Dtalk cuts him off, "The Ruul...the dwarven defenders of the village..." (OOC: see the Outer Wall of Irrundanil for info on the Ruul, and their job)
El looks at him with one eye nearly closed, and says, "Yeah, yeah. Them... Yer like a textbook, you know that, Dtalk?"
"Elliomn, just tell them what they want to know."
El sighs, and continues quietly, stepping forward to keep others from hearing, his breath reeking of bad ale, "The utther guy is in custody, but the one that got killed... Well, they BOTH were scouts for the Kieens... You know, the army? I was in on it, when we went up through the window, and blasted him with a dagger, tipped in dragon's Bocksott. Sorry fer the mess... But he would've told th' army all about us here in 'rrund'nil, and we'd've been killed when the amry gets back."
Dtalk looked at Kim, "It's true. Elliomn and Luke came back this evening after being at your bar, and ended up planning this out for some time. If the man would have been let to leave, he would surely have reported to his officials, and they would seek out the mountain village, only to destroy it. We provide safe harbor here for magic-users, and that is grounds for destruction, by their laws." He looks down once, then quietly asks Kim, "You will not say anything, will you? Kim? Catz?"
"Catz?!?! What in the Nine Hells kind of name is THAT?!?!?" El explodes into laughter after he exclaims this.

"Do you think we can reach this guy even tough he is caught bu the Ruul?" [Kim_Lundin] asks "I won't tell the guards about you... I have nothing against mages... I've got help from them more than once..." he smiles "If I was you, El, I should stop laughting... I don't think you want to make her angry..."

BadCat, after a period of mental inactivity, blinks at El. "Beg pardon, did yeh say something?" She looks about her in mild suprise, then back at the laughing Elf. "So... where am I?" She asks of Kim, nudging him sharply in the ribs. "And where's Spike...?"

[Kim_Lundin] smiles "We're getting information from this elf here. Spike? I haven't seen him since we talked to that guy at the house."

Spike casually walks into the inn, pouncing up onto a windowsill, and strecthes out to sleep. He winks once at BadCat.

"Hmm." BadCat frowns. "So, we're getting information...? Fair enough." Turning back to Elliomn she scowls deeply. "A'right, yeh scurvy bastard, give us the information! Whatever it is that we're after, yeh give it ta us, now! Grr! Argh!" BadCat follows this with a series of face contortions... from simple tongue poking to grotesque twistings. That'll teach 'im....

El looks at Catz in his drunken state with what looks like abashed curiosity, but could just be uninterpretation of her last comment.

"We've got some info, the partner to the guy who died at the tavern is in custody."

"What? Oh... well I suppose you don't need me then..." BadCat folds her arms and looks away sulkily.

"Oh, don't look like that." [Kim_Lundin] sais "After all, you were the only one who understood what that goblin said."

[BadCat] looks at Kim blankly. "Goblin? What goblin?" She scratches at her stomach idly. "Ohhh... that goblin. Yeah, well, that was easy. So erh, what do we need from this guy now?" She glances at El. "Apart from a drink...? Oi, pointy! Fetch me a gin!"

El shakes his head in surprise, but says, "Ummmm, ok...." and walks to the bar.

"The only thing I think he can help us with is with some info about the Ruul..."

"The...? Right. You get info 'bout that, I'm gonna get drunk." BadCat scowls at El. "Where's meh bloody gin, already?"

"Sure..." [Kim_Lundin] sais "Dtalk... can you give me some info 'bout that?"

Dtalk views you both with a bit of mild curiosity, glancing back to the cat that winked at BadCat sitting up on the windowsill. Raising an eyebrow, he asks, "What is it that you need to know about the Ruul? They are just the guards of the village here. You can be assured that they will do whatever's necessary to ensure the future safety of the village people (OOC:lol, the village people...). Cat's right, it's time to get drunk..." and looks to Elliomn, who wavingly saunters over with a huge mug of gin for BadCat, and a round of drinks for the group. He whispers into Dtalk's ear, "I love spending money that isn't mine..." then chuckles a bit, tipping his glass to the overly-sober Catz. "To the dead guy!" and slams it down in a very atypical fashion for an elf.

"Do you know where he sits in custody?" [Kim_Lundin] asks.

"Most likely in the village jail-hold, until a plan is made by the council of what to do with him." Dtalk explains.

"Can you show us the way... ehum, when BadCat has finished her drink?"

"Why on Jashnia would you want to go visit a penitant Kieen scout in the middle of the night? They'd probably think you were part of the spies..." El says, wiping off his mouth with his sleeve. "Let's just sit down, and Dtalk can go get the next round."

"Oh, thank you, El," Dtalk says, rolling eyes up as he speaks, leading the group to a nearby table. Around the inn, there are some random faces, no one familiar, but all a bit mysterious, or at least shaded in intimidation of some form. The name of the tavern seems to hold true..Shady. Spike, having lept down from the windowsill, brushes past BadCat's leg, and curls up beneath the table in front of the seat next to where Elliomn is plopping himself down. Dtalk sighs, and shakes his head a little as he turns to go to the bar and get a round of drinks again, even though Elliomn is the only one to finish his. "Anything you guys want?"

"Just water, please..." [Kim_Lundin] sais and looks at everyone, his eyes say "comment on my choice of drink, if you dare!"

Elliomn looks up from his drink with a bit of a frighteningly wicked look. "I love dares," he says insinuating a further comment, but not speaking further. Dtalk heads to the bar.

[Kim_Lundin] glares at El "You do? Sorry, but you're NOT my type."

BadCat drains her mug, and licks her lips lustily. "Buddy, my liver is going to need surgery soon," she grins. Noticing Kim and El's animosity, she quirks an eyebrow. "You love dares? Alright, I dare yeh ta dance the can-can on the table. I'd do it mahself, but I'm not wearing any panties..." (NTWDOA)(OOC:?-xido)

Elliomn looks up at her, admiring her thirst for brew, and replies drunkenly, "Dance the huh?"
As Dtalk comes back with another round (and a water), Elliomn asks him, "Hey bookworm, what's a can can?" Dtalk looks curiously at him for a moment, then replies, "You would know if you had lived about 7,000 years ago..." in a rather mysterious and reserved manner. After taking his seat at the table, he holds his head in closer to nearly whisper, "So what is it that you need to know from this Kieen scout, anyways? You'd be better off just letting it be... One of them is dead..." pausing, and looking at El with a bit of an angry glare, "and the other is imprisoned. There were three others, I'm told, apprehended just outside the walls of the village, climbing up the mountainside to get a closer peek without passing through the gates."

BC rolls her eyes. "Yeve obliviously... uh, obviously never been to France before the turn of the century. The Can-can! You kick on leg up, then the other...? And you sing da da dada dadadada... Ah, forgeddut! Different dare: stand on the table and sing "Pop Goes the Weasel" in g minor," BadCat meanders through her topic.

Without a pause, Elliomn stands in his seat, and says, "Alrigh...." but stops when he is grabbed by Dtalk by his shirt, and pulled back down into his chair.
"Let you not..." Dtalk speaks wryly while holding him fast. Looking at Cat, he chides, "You know, he's bad enough already, he doesn't need any coaxing from the peanut gallery, thank you."
"Oh, stop being such a shoe-in, darky" El cries, to which Dtalk gives him a sidelong glance. "You know, not everyone is a shoe-in like you..."
"Oh what do you know, El?" Dtalk nearly cries out. "You're drunk. You're boligerant. And you nearly danced upon the table for nothing more than personal amusement. How impressive do you think that is?" El doesn't answer but sips his ale, smiling out of the side of the mug at BadCat. Setting his mug down, he chuckles a bit, and kicks back in his chair.

"We want to have our money back... (OOC: I wonder how many times I can lie about that ^_^)"

BadCat blinks at Kim. "Eh? What money?" (OOC: Maybe no more, hehe... ;) Sorry!)

"What money? BadCat... are you drunk again? The money he borrowed from us of ofcorse (OOC: I think I'll NEVER learns how to spell that)."

Elliomn stares blankly at the wall on the far side of the tavern and says placidly, "I'm not drunk...."

Eyes narrowed suspiciously at Kim, BC hiccups absently. "I'm not drunk either, and nor am I gay!" she asides to El. "Fetch me a bottle of rum, would yeh?"

"Why on Jashnia would you say a thing like that?" El cries, pulling his dead back in surprise at the outburst. "Hey Dtalk, you wanna go get this one?"
"I got the last one, you fool" Dtalk replies.
"Well.....you wanna go get this one?" El chides. Sighing once, Dtalk gets to his feet, and pushes his chair back as he heads to the bar. Snickering at his exit, Elliomn leans in and whispers, "He doesn't even fight you on it after the second time... He's so predictable...heeheeheheee."

"Heeeheeehee! You giggle like a schoolgirl!" BadCat says, giggling like a schoolgirl.

Elliomn furrows his eyebrows at the apparent irony of that statement, chuckling and saying nothing, but slowly directs his gaze to Spike, who's now uncurling onto BC and El's feet, yawning while he streches his paws, claws glimmering (glimmering?), and falls limply on top of feet to nap once more.

"Nice cat.... Doesn't care much for 'personal space, now does he? Yours?" El comments.

"Well..." [Kim_Lundin] sais "Been following us for a while, good company, and really smart to."

"We're dating," BadCat says seriously. "I'm going to bear his children." She takes a sip of a mysteriously produced fruit dacquiri.

The wide-eyed Elliomn cries, "REALLY?!?!" and Spike pops his head up, wide-eyed as well.
Looking at the new drink in BC's hand, he asks, "Hey! You want to get ME one of those..? Hey, wait, where'd shitskin go? Dtalk!! Hey, get some more, already!!! Here, do it one more time, Catz, and do it slow....I want to see this trick. Pull a dacquiri out of your sleeze, ag...I mean, your sleeve again...." Spike hops up into El's lap, and he cries, "WHOA, hey, watch out for the goods, will ya?" Walking around a couple of circles, Spike lies down in his lap, and curls up, yawning once before he lays his head down.
"Man, Catz, you're gonna have some crazy kittens..."

"As I said... REALLY smart." [Kim_Lundin] sais

BadCat takes another slow sip of her drink. "Well, this was the only daiquiri I had left... but I don't mind sharing," she offers with a lopsided grin. "I do have a bottle of rum in my boot, and a new strain of custard flavoured vodka somewhere around me, though...." she adds idly.

"Lemme try the custard shit... That sounds like a new kick" El responds with a shaking head, after several delayed, drunken moments. "Alrigh' cat! Someone new, now! You're givin' me a stiffy, here!" at the incessant cat's purring. Spike lifts his head only momentarily, and lies back down, ignoring his comments.

"Eh! Spike, darl, I don't think you should be in that situation!" BadCat gets up and lifts Spike up. She gives him a kiss on the forehead and sets him down in her chair, then looks seriously at El. "The cat's got my chair. Mind if I take his?" She asks, looking pointedly at his lap.

Spike gives a quizzical look to the lack of warmth that now occupies the space below him, and back up to BadCat, and meows.
Elliomn chuckles whole-heartedly, and sais, "Sure, toots, do whateve' ya wish!! .........but gimme' that custard stuff...."
Dtalk sighs at El as he approaches once more, with a round of drinks, setting them on the table. "There" he sais, "all but one for me, because I will be leaving, as I have too much to do back at home, like sleeping, and working tomorrow morning..." Looking back to Kim and BadCat, he sais, "Nice meeting you... Please stop by anytime that isn't the middle of the night, and I'll see you all later" and exits quietly, nodding once to Tanuul, who exchanges the gesture, and watches him on his way out. Spike wisks out the window, to follow after Dtalk has left, winking once to BadCat before he leaves.

BadCat retrieves a flask of custard flavoured vodka and hands it to El as she settles down on his lap. "Bye Spike," she mouths to the departing feline.

"Now that's the stuff, boozewench! Come to Papa!" El exclaims as she hands off the flask to him, sitting in his lap. "Alright, kids, so how much dinarra does this little murmie of a scouler owe ya guys?" he asks Kim and Catz.

"Eh? What dinarra? Ohh... yeah, I don't remember anything about the money, so Kim's your man," BadCat shrugs, and pulling out a small dagger from her boot, slices off a piece of El's hair. "For my collection," she grins, tucking it into a pocket.
Shrieking like a little choir girl, El cries out in vanity over the loss of the lock of hair, and nearly tosses BadCat to the side in his freaking out. "You sick BITCH, you sick, twisted, bitch of a BRIMBORION.... Damn you, you Brimbo-bimbo boozewench!!! What in the NINE HELLS do you think you're doing cutting off my FINE HAIR?!?!?!" Eye rolling around drunkenly in his frenzy.

"Tzaid! Calm down, you great ponce!" BadCat curses, trying to regain her balance. "What, you want me to glue it back on, yah puss? What's wrong with you? It's just a bit of hair... PANSY! You don't have to FLIP OUT like that! Jayzuz! It was going to come off anyway, you're losing hair like a Siberian Husky!" BadCat takes a calming breath, then pokes her tongue out spitefully.

Elliomn narrows his eyes for a moment, then sighs, and looks down. "Well, ya coulda' asked first....  Oh, whatever, it doesn't matter, I guess....EXCEPT that I look asymmetrical now, you POOT-MONKER CAN OF FILTH!!! Now come back over here, and sit down on me again....." he exclaims, licking his incisor between his cracked-open lips.

BadCat plonks herself back down on El, making herself comfortable, then leans forward and kisses him lightly on the lips. "Okay, next time I'll ask before I take some of your hair, bodily fluid, etceteras..." she says with a wink and a grin.

Eyes wide, the drunken elf's face curls up into an ear to ear grin. "Now that's what I'm talking about....  Rather well-versed in the surprise-talk it seems, aren't we, toots?"
Elliomn moves his head forward to go for another kiss, but gives Kim a heavy sidelong glance before settling back in his chair, giving the custard-vodka a quick chug, and wiping his mouth on his sleeve, eyeing BC with every movement. "Well, it would be rather ungentlemanly of me to argue with terms like that, I guess" he sais, taking one more chug on the vodka, then saying, "Right tasty, it is.."

BadCat narrows her eyes. "Hang on... are you claiming to be a gentleman?" she asks suspiciously. "I might just have to leave, if so. I can't abide the company of gentlemen!" she says melodramatically.

Rolling his eyes even more dramatically, Elliomn cries, "Oh, abide the company of Gruyere CHEESE, if it's soothing to the nose! Come here!!" He grasps her by the waist, and begins tickling her vehemently with his fingertips.

"WHAT cheese? Ah! Stop it! Back, I say!" BadCat bats at El's hands frantically. "Noo! Don't tickle! Heeh! It hurts! Teehee! Stop it! Save me, Kim!"

"Ehum..." [Kim_Lundin] sais "I guess you want to be alone for a while... so you can just tell me were the custody is and I'll let you be alone."

"Teeheee- stop it! Stop tickling me!" BadCat wails. "No, Kim! Don't go! Rescue me from this bad, bad man with more arms than Shiva! Heeh! Stop it, it hurts! Heehee!"

"Oh... okay..." [Kim_Lundin] grabs [BadCat]s arms and drags her out of Elliomns tickeling terror.

BadCat clings to Kim gratefully. "Oh hero..." she laughs. "Haha, El... you can't get me now!" BadCat teases, ducking behind Kim_Lundin and poking out her tongue.

Elliomn chuckles, and raises an eyebrow at her, but lets her hide as he sits back in his seat, and chugs the last of the custard vodka. Peering inside the canteen, he cries, "TANUUL! Get this girl a bottle of SHEH!! Three glasses, please."
Tanuul Rolls his eyes, and ducks beneath the bar to find his sheh.

BadCat frowns. "What's sheh?" she asks, peering out from behind Kim.

"It's a kind of drink from the north..." [Kim_Lundin] sais "The hooded man at adventurer's loved it."

Tanuul heads out around the front of the bar to hand off three champagne glasses to Kim, El, and BC. "Sheh it is.....you know how much that shit costs, right, El?"
"Yeah, yeah, it ain't my money..." El retorts, handing off some coins to the barkeep. Tanuul walks away behind the bar.
El grins at BadCat, and sais, "THIS you will enjoy!!" filling the glasses. "Those silly northern bastards aren't good for much, but they sure can BREW!!"

Lulled by the prospect of alcohol, BadCat moves out from behind Kim and sniffs curiously at the beverage.

Elliomn chuckles at the sniffing human, and sais, "It's good....like wine, finely distilled, and flavoured with Ganye berries. Absolutely delighful." The wiff of fumes from the sparkling drink is intoxicating in itself.

"You know," BadCat says absently as she stares at the liquid, "One of the nicest things I've ever tasted is that fake wine stuff. It's kind of depressing, but there you go." She slides over and takes a sip of the sheh, swishing it around her mouth.

Ellliomn downs his glass in one swift kicker, and smacks his lips immodestly drunk, finishing with an indulgent, "Ahhhhh..." before filling his glass once more.
He sais, "Distilled, sparkling Yeti urine....the best in the house, and a delicacy to any northern traveller who dares to tempt its curses... Beautiful stuff, really. Smells great; tastes just like piss..."

[Kim_Lundin] looks at Elliomn with a strange look "Ehum... do you have an idea what you're talking about?"

[BadCat] swallows her mouthful. "Yeti piss? From whereabouts in the north, exactly?" She smirks. "Kade will pay me well for this information..." she breathes delightedly, and takes another sip.

"Of course I do!" El quickly snaps at Kim, then turns to BadCat with tired eyes, and comments, "It's a Kieen distillery in the small town of Beurswenn...you know, that little southern island in the northern portions of the Cradle, still inside the bounds of Kiee? Yeah, there, on that island... The country nearly enslaved the island state, mostly only thinking of the benefit of the legendary distilleries on that land to the country's weak and crumbling economy, really...." He sips the glass thoughtfully, then mumbles, "Bastards" before turning a mischievous set of eyes to the boozewench before him, and with vigorous attention, he delivers the near-speech, "So, this friend of yours, Kade, is it? He sounds like a delighful individual all full of perpetuation and glee....! What kind of fair person might this man be?" and sits watching BadCat with the eyes of Barbara Walters, leaning his lips against his hand in an interviewing fashion, tilting his head to your proposed response.

BadCat laughs. "Kade? A delightful individual, full of glee? Not my Kade..." She shakes her head, "My Kade is uncaring and arrogant..." BadCat shudders with pleasure. "What a guy." Glancing briefly at El's pointed ears, she grimaces, adding. "He's not exactly fond of your kind."

El purses his lips in such a fashion as to show drunken interest, as if he's truly contemplating the nature of that last comment. Sadly, no such thought is ACTUALLY going through his head, although he conveys the implication well.
"Hmmm. How so?" he inquires, then adds, "He sounds right up my alley? Perhaps he likes to fight a lot? We might just well get in real well together."

BadCat chuckles. "Kade doesn't get along well with anyone. And that includes me... he detests my company," she sighs. "But he passes his time by hunting down the so-called 'myths' and such, which is why I asked of the yetis. I remember him mentioning them a few years ago, I'm not sure if he actually found any though. Last I heard, he was seeking out a herd of Sleipnir's descendants, or some such." BadCat shrugged, and knocked back the remaining sheh. "Can I get another glass?"

"Drink on, sister Brimbo!" El cries, immediately raising the bottle to fill your glass once more.
"Well, whatever he gets off on, I hope it's sticky!! ...Er, well......nevermind.... You know, human, you're wonderful to get on with, and not quite nearly as dull and stupid as the local village folk... I should think that you'd be well-suited befitting a tavern heres, somewheresabouts, in these lands, no? You'd be well-received, that's for sure. A bit fillandering, but comely, nonetheless, and quite a talker of sorts..." (does he have any clue what he's talking about? ........no)
"You know, it's about time I go take a little Yeti-piss meself.... Be back" he sais, and stands to walk to the back door leading to the out-house outback.
As he's out, Spike meanders back through the window, and comes to sit on BadCat's feet.
Elliomn walks back in quite a while later (two more glasses of sheh, in Catz Time), looking honestly bewildered.
Plopping down into his chair, he stares forward at nothing for two whole minutes, before he blurts out, "It's gotta be a portal.........where?" then sits abashed, jaw slacking open.
Spike purrs and cuddles your feet.

"A portal?" [Kim_Lundin] sais "Hmm... last time I encoutered a portal... a whole tavern was filled with demonic rats."

Sculling her fifth glass of sheh, BadCat raises an eyebrow. "Wha's da hell are yeh talkin' abou'? Yehr makin' less sense than a spanish olive," she mumbles, and smacks her lips at Spike. "Com'on kitty... jump up on my lap..."

"Ahdonknow... Some weird thing out back, by the potty... Iss probbley just an illusion, or something, who knows? The fires aren't even hot...." El rambles.
Spike raises his head, and leaps up into BC's lap, plopping himself under her hands for full-out PETTINS... *purrrrrrs*

"I'm about to check it out anyways..." [Kim_Lundin] sais and rises "Can't hurt to be certain, right?" he begins to walk towards the door.

With wide eyes, El sais, "It could...."

"It could... what?" [Kim_Lundin] sais, he holds his hand on the door.

"Wait!" BadCat narrows her eyes, showing a drunken attempt at thought. "Maybees... maybe weh shoul' all go check it out... safety in harnesses - I mean, numbers!" She nuzzles Spike. "Spikeybaby will keep us safe..."

"Yes... safety in numbers... well, come on, before the portal, or what it now is, dissapears." [Kim_Lundin] sais, opens the door and leaves.

BadCat slings Spike over her shoulder, grabs El by the arm and trails outside after Kim.