divided | ( open post! ) voicetest → rory williams

[ is that flapping? ]

[ holy shit, rory does not like birds. he does not like anything, actually, for things that look normal are never quite normal. his back is to her as she flies down, and he looks up too late — he sees a bird ascending into the air, to only disappear from sight. he's honestly not quite sure what to do with himself. does he stay? does he go? ]

[ but the sound of fighting draws his attention. his legs are starting to ache from their squatting position. while he's still uncertain, rory takes in a deep breath — and grabs the nearest solid object, which happens to be a plank of split and splintering wood — and moves. ]

[ he runs out of the alleyway to come to a halt when he sees the fight and — ]

[ what does he make of it, exactly? ] Stop! I've got — [ he glances at his plank of wood. and he does what he should've done before making a noise. he advances, raises it, and tries to whack someone in the fight. ]

[What he can make of it is a naked woman brandishing a knife and a Fae disguised a goth college kid with a knife of his own. Granuaile barely hears him as she's focused on the fight and that knife is most likely poisoned too. She's already looking through the Fae's camouflage to see that he has the knife raised, looking for an opening, but any normal person would see the knife at a different angle, held down closer to the body. The Fae's face under the camouflage is twisted in anger at his opponent's skill, but above it all, the face it's wearing is a scared goth kid. Spotting Rory out of the corner of his eye, he says, "Don't let this crazy lady knife me! Look at her; she's naked! Who does that?"]

Don't listen to him. I know he doesn't look like much, but this is the guy who shot arrows at me. And yes, I'm naked, but I have a damn good reason for it.

[What she's worried about now is both Rory getting involved in the fight and that since he can't see through the camouflage that he'll take the Fae's side and think she really is crazy. If the Fae launches at her with his knife while using his camouflage to appear to be standing there innocently, she'll have to strike back and it'll look like she just sliced and diced him when he wasn't making any threatening movements. She needs a plan.]

[ has rory seen stranger things? he's been stranger things. a man with a thousand lives, with memories that span two thousand years, rory williams isn't a stranger to strange. but this is a little strange … naked women brandishing knives … ]

[ but said naked woman had told him to run — and while rory isn't quite sure if that's what an evil person would do, he knows it's not what a dalek would do. and that's the most evil of evil he's come across. rather than yelling run it'd yell eggs. ]

[ it's very simple, really. and he's not believing her because she's naked, either. ]

Uh — Yeah. You might need to explain that.

[ and rory, with his plank of wood, since he had missed hitting anyone with it before, takes better aim and swings as hard as he can at the goth kid. ]

You might need to explain all of this, yeah. Definitely needs an explanation.

[The Fae hadn't really seen Rory as a threat, so the whack he gets from the wood causes him to crumple to the ground and though Granuaile is surprised, she's not about to look a gift horse in the mouth.

...and she's also going to have a chuckle about that later, because another of her animal forms is a horse. But! On to the matter at hand. She descends upon the fallen Fae and stabs him in the heart. His body seizes, and then at the site of the wound, his body begins to dissolve into dust. The steel knife is forged from iron and iron is deadly to them. So no more Fae. At least the turning-into-dust thing should assure Rory that she just didn't commit a murder, but there's still a lot to explain here.]

Thank you. Really.

[Now how to handle this? She knows what her archdruid/sensei would do. He'd camouflage himself and get the hell out of Dodge, leaving the person to think this was all a hallucination. But Granuaile would feel guilty doing that, because he helped her and seemed to accept her words at face value. Hmm.]

Listen, you deserve an explanation, but doing it naked isn't my idea of a fun time. So give me a few minutes to get dressed over in the park.

[And then she does a funny wax on, wax off gesture with her hands, imitating the penguin from the movie Madagascar.]

You didn't see anything.

[She murmurs a Celtic spell and casts camouflage; not the Fae's type, but the kind that disturbs the air molecules around her to make it look like she's disappeared. The air might have a shimmer to it as she moves, but that should be all he'll see as she jogs back to retrieve her clothes. Don't worry, Rory. An explanation's coming. Just not sans clothes.]

[ rory is quite taken aback when she stabs the goth bloke in the heart. he even takes a literal step back, flinching slightly. ]

[ but that disturbance in the force disappears when the bloke on the ground does so, too. ]

Erm, yeah. [ he had forgotten that she was stark naked. no offence meant, granuaile, but when someone saves rory from death — another on his list — he sort of looks them in the face more than … anywhere else. he averts his eyes. ] Maybe you should … get some clothes.

[ his brows pinch at her statement — that he didn't see anything — and before he can even ask what she's on about, she's gone. he blinks, a little taken aback, yet not quite surprised. this is like the doctor, isn't it? here one minute, gone for the next five years. ]

[ rory glances around, awkwardly shifting. ]

I'll wait here for that explanation, then.

[ and so he waits. he's very good at it, rory williams, has had two thousand years of practice of it, actually. waiting five minutes for his lady hero to slip into something less revealing is nothing compared to that. so, he stays, where he is, perhaps shifting a little to the left or right, but never completely out from his spot on the gravel. ]

[ he does drop the wood, however, right by his feet. ]

[After getting her clothes on, grabbing her staff, and dissolving her camouflage, she returns, walking at a normal pace. He hasn't run off screaming or whipped out his cell to Instagram the pile of Fae dust, so she'll put a little trust in him.]

Hey. So that... that was a thing that happened.

[Really not much else that can sum it up, is there?]

That guy was bad news, and obviously not human, which I hope doesn't freak you out to hear? You seem like you've got a good head on your shoulders.

[She nearly adds "Even if you are British," but she refrains. He'd probably think she's being a dumb American, but it comes from having an Irish archdruid. You've got to take the piss out of the British from time to time. That's like, duh obvious.]

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oh my god, thank you for linking that cute gif

i thought a visual was necessary. :P