Hating the Morning

[Neki]

It was midmorning, not too cold or too hot. Lots of people were out on the move, ready to get going. One zoomers stood out slightly in the slow movement. It was an average family zoomer, two women sitting in the front seats. The back seats had been taken out and a tarp covered something carefully held there. It was smoking slightly , smelled of burnt metal and gasoline, and was quite jumbled.

" Damn thing reeks. I mean, Why the hell shoot it? Especially twenty or so times." The woman speaking had deep earth toned skin streaked slightly with the dark red of drying blood. The tips of her coppery tinged orange hair were also stained, soaking up blood from the cut on her forehead. Depp olive green eyes showed anger and annoyance as she spoke.

"Relax Mycky. Maybe tomorrow will be stabbing day and you'll be the target instead of your zoomer.." The other woman was light skinned, amusement sparkling from her green grey eyes. A few uncooperative strands of red black hair waved from her braid. Shinrah was grinning from ear to ear, awake and alive unlike Mykah.

"You're horrible you know that Shen? Just awful." Shemade a face, her clearer than glass words ringing with the dark humor she normally displyed.

"Waddaya want me to do, weep and wail and bang my head against a tree?" Shinrah asked with mock affront.

"Well, it might make me feel better if you did." Mykah smiled as she replied and pointed that they needed to turn. They were on thier way to the stadium. Shinrah wanted to watch a few races while Mykah had her hunk of junk zoomer looked at.

" We just need to get the thing into my garage. I'll have someone look at it." Mykah said.

" Why do you have a garage when you don't race and you can't fix a zoomer to save your life?" Shinrah asked her friend. The whole idea didn't make sense to her. Garages were places she went if she wanted to steal something.

" Cuz no one thinks loud noises, swearing, and strange tools are out of place in a garage. I make all my weapons and armor there" They stopped, getting out and looking at the smoking dilapidated zoomer.

"We can move it with jetboards." Once the thing was in Mykahs garage the two separated, Shinrah going to the races and Mykah making her way to Audra's garage. Eh, its noon. I wonder if she'll even be there.[i/] She stopped in front of the dor, then banged her fist against the metal.

"You in there Audra?" She called out.

[raven]

I love lurking, Jace thought with a smirk as he watched the two girls talk. He wondered if Shinrah even noticed him there...if she did, she didn't give my position away...if she didn't then she's really bad at being an assassin. His emerald green eyes sparked as the girl he had not recognized walked to another girl's house.

He was interested in this girl that seemed to know his acquaintance fairly well. He followed behind her for a ways until houses started appearing the farther he got from the stadium. He leaped on to a rooftop, following Mykah there then he landed on Audra's house with absolute silence.

Hmm wonder who these two are, and how Shinrah would know them...Jace's golden hair blew in the wind covering his face. He flipped his hair out of his face and listened closely to the girls' conversation.

[Altairas]

The sound of alarms buzzed through the air followed by a chorus of footsteps and shouts. A girl darts quickly above the streets, clothing blending in with the nighttime atmosphere. Hastily she dashes behind a small chimney drawing in precious breath. The sound of clanking metal armor can be heard on the streets below, harsh orders being barked back and forth between squads.

Suddenly a shot is fired, crackling through the tense atmosphere. There she is! Don't let her escape! The bullet priced the brick above the girls head, the broken stone bouncing off of her blue hair. "This isn't happening. . ." She whispered to herself, casting a quick glance to the sides of her before bounding across the roof.

An array of bullets spray into the air, children screaming in their bedrooms at the defining noise. . . . .

You in there Audra? [/b]

Audra's head popped up from her workbench, only to greet the bent over lamp that decorated it. "Ow!" She groaned reaching her hand up to rub her head. Must have fallen asleep working on those weapons. . . She thought as she assessed her bench, gun parts on peaces laying scattered about. Another round of pounding on the door made Audra let out a disgruntled sigh.

Slowly she stood up, pausing to stretch and crack her aching neck. Remind me not to fall asleep on the table again. . . She thought walking to the wall by the garage and slamming her fist into the button on the wall. With the grinding of gears, the garage door split open, revealing the face of Mykah.

"Didn't I tell you last week that I am not interested in Girl scout cookies?" She teased rubbing her hand briskey on her face to awaken herself completely. " So are you here for business or did you just come by for a cup of tea with honey?"[/color]
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[Neki]

Mykah smiled at her friend. Her blie hair was all over the place, looking like she was just getting up. Mykahs own coppery hair was all over the place from her morning ride. She stepped inside, looking around the workshop. There were guns all over, and her racing zoomer in the center. Some kind of fluid was leaking from it, puddling on the floor. An array of broken jetboards covered the wall, in many stages of disrepair.

" Precursors Audra, do you ever clean this place?" She asked as she sat down on an empty chair. She was suprised there was anyspace to sit.

" I don't have any girl scout cookies, but a cup of tea sounds good. Or coffee." She told the other woman. She wondered what made Audra look so disheveled, but decided ot to ask. She didn't want to pry. She sighed, puling a hairband off her arm and trying to contain her messy hair.

" I can see you must have had a lively morning." She stated." I kinda need some help though. Someone attacked my house this morning. The shot my zoomer al to hell and back again. I was hoping you'd look at it and see if its worth fixing or if I should scap it." She looked at the racer. wondering just what shewas thinking at the moment. Her zoomer was in her garage, locked up, ready for whatever wouldhappen to it.

[Altairas]

Audra ran her hand through her extremely messy blue hair, the bangs landing messily back in front of her face. She sighed and rolled her eyes giving up on looking at all respectable. " Hey hey hey, I have a very hectic life. Having a dirty work area just means that it is used often. " She said cracking a smile as Mykah sat down by her work bench. " Well were all out of tea but I can tell you that we have a steady supply of Java handy. " Audra said moving over to the right side of her garage and taking a large drape off of the top of the table.

The table top was full of paints and various oils and fuids. Off the the side sat a coffee maker that was covered in oily fingerprints. With the drape, Audra covered up the few crates of guns that stashed under the table. Picking her way through the oils and containers she picked up a coffee can, opening the lid and taking a sniff. "Not coffee. . ." She mumbled picking up another coffee container and opening the lid and smelling the contents. "Coffee." She said making her way to the coffee maker.

As Mykah talked Audra went about the routine of making coffee, mentally timing herself as she went through it. "Well heh, this morning was interesting but I should have enough time- " She cut herself off as she finished preparing the coffee. New record. She thought cracking a smile before turning and continuing. " To be able to take a look at it. If you have it here now I can do it . " She said tilting her head and scratching the back of her neck as she awaited an answer.

[Neki]

Mykah sighed in relief, happy that something was going right foronce. She smiled and nodded at the offer for Coffee. Her mind was beating out a dance pattern she had learned long ago, her desert lullaby flowing through her mind. She looked at the table, caratesof guns uncovered.

" That really helps." She said, looking around. " So have you been working on anything good? I have a shipment to deliver in a few days." She asked, wondering what Audra had been working on. She knew the girl was an excellent weapons smith, and hoped that she would show her a few tricks.

[Altairas]

Audra lowered her hand and shook her head. "Eh nothing that interesting, but I have been tinkering with a new toy of mine. " She said in a very proud tone. Moving away from the counter she hurried over to where Mykah was sitting and shuffled through the piles of parts on her work desk. After rummaging through a few miscellaneous items she reviled a long glove adorned with an array of tubes and wires. Some of the largest tubes were not even connected to anything, they hung off the edge as if begging for something to attach to.


"Not sure what to call the crazy contraption yet." Audra said with a smile slipping the long glove over her hand and up her arm. She tightened a few straps with her teeth and then proceeded to connect the tubes to the bolts that she had inserted into her arm. With a slight wince the tubes were attached and she twisted her arm around with a childish grin on her face. "but it works. " She finished, almost begging for Mykah to ask what it does.

[Neki]

Mykah looked at it, intrigued. There were metal and tubes, and she had a feeling it was something big. So for a moment she tried to figure it out. But the purposeof this painful looking device defeated her. She couldn't figure it out.

" Ok, I give up. What does it do Audra?" She asked, curious. This girl always had something new and intersting. Now she had something big

Mykah continued to look at it, assessing the tubes and things. It connected to her arm, and the chamber seemed meant to hold something. A weapon of somekind. She waited for Audra's answer.

[Altairas]

Audra smiled, quietly wanting to give some sort of demonstration to her friend. Way to dangerous in the garage. . . She reminded herself sternly as she looked at the gadget. "Well what happens is, eco and blood go through these. " She instructed, her other hand drifting on top of the tubes connected to her arm. " The blood is filtered out and back in to the body, and eco is the only thing left. Leaving the exit point for the eco, being here." Audra pointed to the palm of her hand, a circular metal contraption built into the glove. "And boom."

"There is a lot more math and other things to it and well, there are a few major side effects. Like I have only been able to use it once, safely. More then one fire in a short amount of time causes things like passing out and light headedness. " Audra looked at Mykah with a smile, noticing that she was rambling a little. "But it works." She finished her eyes looking over to see that the coffee had almost finished brewing.

[Neki]

She listened to the explanation with increasingly widening eyes. It separated eco from blood? She watched as Audra showed her the device.

" Audra thats amazing. Dangerous and amazing." She was impressed. Actually she was thinking she wanted one. But maybe not. Mykah looked at it, trying to runs ome calculations through her head as to how that would work.

" Thats amazing. Does it hurt?" She asked. If somethinglike that hurtpeople wpould be lees inclined to try and steal her secrets to misuse them.