An Incident [May 1; Video]

[consider8]

[Private to the Troll Hive]

[A smiling Aranea flips the camera to herself. She's waiting in line for the cashier and seems to have taken this as a good opportunity to address the guide.]

Hi Di and Sign! I was in the neighborhood and remembered that we were out of some medical supplies. So I took it upon myself to procure some. Hehe. Since I'm here, do you know of anything else I might be--

Hey, what's that you got there? [And voice comes from behind the counter.]

Huh... [Aranea looks away to address him.] Oh, it's just some supplies for me and my--

You're one of those "guests," huh? Well, you better get out of here. We won't take your credit.

Oh, um... but I was here just a few days ago--

We're changing our store's policy. So just, get out of here, okay, horned freak?

Okay. Sure. There's no need to get excited. I'm leaving.

[The camera shakes visibly as Aranea sets her mirror inside a handbag. In the process of doing so...]

[Video to all -- from Aranea's bag]

Just where do you think you're going with that?

Oh, um. I was just going to put it away.

Liar! You were trying to steal it!

I did not lie, nor am I trying to steal! In fact if I were to attempt to leave right now I would be stealing!

Little bitch. You want to steal my stuff now that we're not serving guests!

No, really! I was just--let go of me!!

You're not so tough without your partner, huh...

[There's a second of struggling and not a second longer the sound of fist contacting face...]

Comments

[entreats]

.. Counterproductive? [ sure, this isn't.. really the time to ask about that of all things, but she's sort of curious.. ] How?

[consider8]

Yes... ugh ...especially when it... ugh ...regards matters of... ugh ...people.

Being too hasty... ugh ...may cause resist... ugh ...ence to what you... ugh ...know will be... ugh ...the best for them.

[entreats]

Ah, I think I get it. But most people don't just want to listen to what other people tell them either way, right? At least.. not most of the time. [ Why does she know that so much? Pretty simple, she's exactly one of those people who never listens.. ]

It's since people can make their own decisions. Even if they're dumb sometimes. Like how you're sitting there talking to me right now instead of getting help.

[consider8]

They're... ugh ...coming.

[And indeed, they are. Such as the guy who kicked in the door with a girl following behind to restrain him, and the other, more feral troll who does the same... with her hands.]

[entreats]

[ Sounds like you've got great company right there, Aranea.. ]

I'll talk with you until they come then, I guess. It's better than just sitting around like that for you.

[consider8]

[Not to forget the best friend!]

Okay... ugh ...it hurts to talk... ugh ...though.

[entreats]

[ The best friend is the most special of all, really. ]

You can always switch to text if that's easier. Not like I can't read.

1/2

[consider8]

Ughhh.... [And she turns off the mirror to address said helpers. Seriously, it's super sweet that they are invested but do they have to do damage to the business? She worries about them sometimes...]

2/2

[consider8]

[Some time afterward, once the smoke clears and she's on the way/waiting in the clinic...]

Hello? Are you still there?

[entreats]

Yeah, apparently I have nothing better to do with my life. [ Sarcasm, of course, but that's the standard for Ange.. she did do something inbetween, after all, but still. ]

Feeling better?

[consider8]

It's 8een less than two hours now. How do you imagine I am fairing?

[That's fine, so long as Ange can take it as well as deal it out... though she really isn't in a glib sort of mood.]

[entreats]

Hey, I say 'better'. So even if it's just a little bit. I'm not exactly expecting a miracle here.

[consider8]

Oh. Then yes. ::::)

[entreats]

Good. Every little bit counts, I guess. Especially since none of us deserve to deal with this stuff. We're fighting for their sake and then they get mad at us.. it's not even logical.

[consider8]

Perhaps it is, in a logic that is illogical to every8ody else.

8ut I think it's safe to assume there is more at work here than simple agitation.

[entreats]

.. Like what? You think it can't just be that they've had enough of us being here? You see that kind of stuff all the time back home where I come from.

[consider8]

Perhaps that is true. 8ut I feel it is 8etter to accommodate to the rules of the world. And one of the primary agitators are a primordial essence of agitation and distrust. With that in mind, I would 8e much more wary of a common factor of dissent in the general population as an indication of this "Madness," than to assume that it is a trait of the general populace. Especially since we have had good relations with them up until now.

[entreats]

I guess it's true. But at the same time it's definitely not something that I would put past people in general either, so it could just be a coincidence that their actions seem like something that could be caused by the Madness or whatever..

Well, not that I'm going to be a huge help in finding that out either way. I can't feel it.

[consider8]

You mean you are immune?

[entreats]

Yeah, my Meister ability makes me immune to it. It's why I didn't get what the big deal about it was supposed to be at first.