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[GP/EP] Check-In Day
Why Caroline had needed her to help with Check-In Day she hadn't bothered to say. Just, "you said you'd help," and when Regina protested she wasn't good with people, "aren't you a Queen or a Mayor or something?" complete with shooing gestures. While Regina found Caroline more exasperating the terrifying, she did have a point.
So Regina suited up--literally, gathered her files and folders, coffee mug, pens and pocketed the wooden carving of Henry/Roland Robin had made for her, then headed for the cafe. If, polished and politic and patently Busy, she didn't offer newcomers the brightest or warmest smile when they arrived, it was nevertheless confident and quite possibly reassuring.
Caroline did friendly. Regina...did knowledgeable and polite. Dot and Ignis had been asked to provide finger food on catering trays. The still-grieving Miss Pryde had been tasked with samovars of tea and coffee and ice chest of soda and beer. Caroline's welcome baskets sat on the table beside Regina's for easy access. And though she didn't when she was alone in the office, Regina spent the magic to fix her eyesight so she didn't put glasses between her and new arrivals.
Madame Mayor was in.
So Regina suited up--literally, gathered her files and folders, coffee mug, pens and pocketed the wooden carving of Henry/Roland Robin had made for her, then headed for the cafe. If, polished and politic and patently Busy, she didn't offer newcomers the brightest or warmest smile when they arrived, it was nevertheless confident and quite possibly reassuring.
Caroline did friendly. Regina...did knowledgeable and polite. Dot and Ignis had been asked to provide finger food on catering trays. The still-grieving Miss Pryde had been tasked with samovars of tea and coffee and ice chest of soda and beer. Caroline's welcome baskets sat on the table beside Regina's for easy access. And though she didn't when she was alone in the office, Regina spent the magic to fix her eyesight so she didn't put glasses between her and new arrivals.
Madame Mayor was in.
Re: locked to Percy, Vax, eventually Kash
He dropped into a crouch beside Trinket and immediately spoke the cantrip to stabilize him. One eye opened and Kash gave him a pat on the shoulder. "Just hang in there," he murmured, mostly to himself, and did a quick hands-on evaluation. It mattered less with animals, but he still liked to know what he was healing in case it didn't stick.
"What the hell were you fighting?" he asked Vex when he found several singed spots in his wet fur where he'd clearly been hit by lightning. That, on top of the wet and Trinket being pulped said it had been epically nasty.
Of course it had. Vox Machina didn't do anything small.
So Kash didn't either. One more time he pulled out the symbol he generally kept hidden and spoke the incantation of the Heal spell. Without consciously calling on Vesh, he reached out for Life energy and poured more into the bear, to make sure he got everything. The golden light that glowed around his hands battled the peculiar black light at its edges, snapping and crackling with tension, but it was no contest. Life won.
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"There's my brave Trinket," Vex cooed, scritching behind his ear. "All better now. And that nasty kraken's not going to bother us here."
Then to the guys, since kraken was bad but probably not enough of an explanation, "Keyleth's aramente. So you know, not killing a kraken is much trickier than killing one. I hope."
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"Her aramente," recognition began to kindle. Love and pride and longing fought for control of his expression as he thought of the dangers Keyleth - and subsequently they, as her friends - had faced during the challenges that would complete her training as the leader of her tribe. "Did she... I mean, there were obviously problems along the way," he acknowledged, given how he was apparently dead. "But did she do it, do you know?"
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Trinket lumbered along with the group, as always willing to follow Vex anywhere.
"I don't... We were just trying to get out of the water plane al- that is, in one piece. But you were there, you and Percy both... only now you're here?"
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As they reached the bar took seats, Percy leaned in closer and spoke just for Vex's ear, "He just had your birthday." He knew he wouldn't need to explain more. It would be context enough.
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No, he didn't need to explain more, a frown pulling at Vex's mouth and brow briefly as she glanced at her brother roughhousing with his nephew. She chased it away by giving Percival a fairly chaste for them kiss, grateful at least he'd been there for her brother when she couldn't be, and glad she was with both of them now.
"Not so rough, brother," she called over. "Someone's going to think you're being mauled." That rarely ended well.
"Come sit by me, and Kash, you there – don't think you're going to slink away and grump on your own. You all can explain about this pocket dimension thing and what you've been doing, and I'll tell you what I can that you missed."
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So he shrugged at Vex and scratched Trinket behind the other ear. "Bar outside's not far from some grass if Trinket wants a drink too." Since obviously taking him in the cafe on check-in day was a terrible idea.
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He scratched the big brown bear's ruff with both hands, burying his face into that thick fur he'd used as a pillow so often, not long ago. The bear was so much a part of his sister that even his low rumbling and animal smell was a reassurance that yes, she had come back to him. "Uncle missed you too," he promised the beast.
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"That'd be good, wouldn't it?" she asked Trinket. "Big bowl of ale and drying off in a nice sunny spot."
Trinket's big head nodded, and when Vex held out the necklace again, he let himself be sucked in for the walk through the inn to the outdoor bar.
"You too, Uncle Vax," she teased, slinging an arm around his neck to pull him close, her other around Percy's waist.
Months. Damn.
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"We'll have to find you one of the swimming costumes the women here wear. You'll rather like them I think." Percy certainly would.
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He lifted his chin at Vax. "Ran into your friend the Captain sunning herself topless earlier."
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He mostly ignored the implications that his sister in one of those tiny sodden garments would be sexy. He'd gotten well used to the way Vex'ahlia affected people over the years Vox Machina had been traveling together. There was honestly no point in getting his hackles up every time someone hit on her or gave her a suggestive look, or he'd have no time for doing anything else. Besides, it was one of their friends as often as not - and when it wasn't, well, Vex had played that to their advantage more than a few times.
"Not a surprise really," Vax considered Kash's report, sounding more agreeable than lascivious. The Captain Corsair was lovely as a freshly sharpened blade - but he wouldn't have it in mind to take one of those to bed, either.
"Most of the women around here are brazenly liberated," Vax noted to Vex lightly. "I think you'll fit in just fine."
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But that was for later.
"'Your friend the Captain'?" she echoed instead. "Are you making brazen friends already, brother?"
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She was teasing, of course, not that he minded. Even before Keyleth, he'd never got into quite as much of that kind of trouble as she had.
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"You'll like the Captain, I believe. Reminds me of Zahra in many ways, come to think of it."
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Kash shrugged more or less impassively. "I wouldn't want to cross her," he allowed. "She reminds me more of Vanessa."
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"Either way, she sounds delightful." The three of them knew Vex, Vanessa and Zahra. She'd leave it to them to decide how much of that was sarcasm. Some, but not as much as most might think.
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"There are dozens of people here, for that matter," he tried to speak to Vex's curiosity. "From all other kinds of worlds to ours. It's a one-way trap of some kind, from what we can tell. A comfortable one, at least. It's all so strange, but it's been safe enough so far." A bit... Too safe, honestly. As in, boring for long stretches with not much to do.