Nowhere to Run
Goal:
Protect the duckling entrusted to her by Srina Talon PENDING
Go help Toph 'liberate' some goods for Darkwire
Tags: Eira Talon Toph Graystone
Quack: Duckie Talon
The Lylek was ferocious, a hideous beast of spindly legs jutting out from a squat thorax. Its head reared back to deliver a heart-stopping roar, whipping its pair of tentacles along the items in the street as it headed straight for her. The distance was closing fast, her breath caught every time the legs pierced down through the duracrete roads and she winced with every crash of the tentacles through another stand or awning overhanging the street. An instant felt like an age as she watched with eyes widen and breath held, before it all collapsed back to normal again the crossroads of three events.
The bullet hit. A hero appeared. Then both exploded in a storm of pink glitter.
Daiya had to squint in order to see what was going on. She could barely make it out, the roar of the beast seemed to reverberate through the cloud of glitter itself. The hero who landed reached up a pink hand, clutching a pink sword, driving it into the enpinkened head of the beast. For a moment, it appeared as if the pink polka-dotted matanga on roller skates itself had manifested to save her, rolling and swirling around the beast in a graceful dance.
The pair landed, decidedly ungraceful, at the girl's feet. She scrambled back quickly, operating on instinct until she was assuredly clear of the cacophony. She blinked a few times, as the glitter began to settle and her vision cleared.
It was Srina Talon herself who had come to save her!
Silver hair now pink, and now sporting an ornate —and very pink with some silver still poking through— set of armor, the Conferate Exarch was exausted but alive under the Lylek corpse. Daiya's heart soared and her forehead tingled again. Her idol had come to save her!
"Are-Are you okay?" called out the voice of...Srina? That was hardly the same cold demeanor from before when she had declined the girl's request. Back when—the girl's eyes grew wide at the realization, the duckling!
She pulled herself into a crouch, feeling around herself for the misplaced little bird. Daiya peered through the haze for the small critter, her heart racing, beads of sweat dripping from her brow. She couldn't have lost her charge already! There was no way she was willing to let down Srina after everything now.
"H-Hello?!"
That definitely wasn't the Srina she knew of or the one she'd met today. But, even covered in glitter, she looked like Srina. Her fear was joined by confusion as her mind puzzled through the last few moments. Her drawing come to life, the duckling lost, and her idol replaced...what was going on?
A quack.
Relief quickly replaced fear as Daiya heard, then spotted,the little duckling at Not Srina's head, giving it a peck. The well of her emotions bubbled over, and helpless to its current the girl began to giggle. She couldn't help it, suddenly the situation was simply hilarious to her. Her giggling grew louder and deeper, unable to stop herself, and uncertain if she even wanted to.
"I'm fine, I'm okay," she told Not Srina when she could speak at last. The girl crawled over to scoop up the duckling, holding it in front of her in one palm and giving its downy feathers a gentle stroke with her fingers. She looked it over, giggling —quieter now— at the many different colors of the anatine's coat. Some of it came off onto her fingers, and the girl pursed her lips at the duckling, "What have you gotten yourself into here?"
If the duckling had an answer for her, it was drowned out by the pinging sound of a call over her comlink. Daiya frowned, this would be the worst time for Tawrro to call to say 'I told you so.' With a melancholy sigh, she pulled it out to listen in.
The voice on the other end was a pleasant speaker, not a growling Wookiee. She had only ever heard the woman's voice before, even though she'd seen the comical Melon Lord avatar the Darkwire slicer often used on the HoloNet. Toph was saying something about a mark, at which point the girl found herself frowning again. The mark? In a hangar bay? A moment later, it clicked for her.
Her mission!
As if meeting her idol, protecting a cute duckling and averting death weren't exhilarating enough for the day, Daiya felt a new thrill rush through her veins as her face alighted with glee. If she could just get to Hangar Bay A87, she could be on her way home soon. And with any luck, avoid any more of the death-bringing beasts that were swarming the broken-in capital dome. Not to mention the sweltering heat.
It took her a few tries to thumb the activation button on her C1 comlink, "I'm really close there now, shouldn't take me long."
Daiya stood up, keeping the duckling cradled in one palm as she offered the other to the Not Srina warrior. Who was this strange woman, her idol's bodyguard? A twin? A clone? Did it matter? "Thanks, I thought I was a goner there! Have you ever seen something so horrible-looking? And fast, whew!" If the strange woman accepted her hand, the girl was intent on helping her stand up again. "How do you look just like her? Srina, I mean."
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