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Who: HANGE!!! GArak, Coil and Zhas
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Action: closed to Red Fish crew
When: sometime... when they're in range of the planet... after whenever the waystation mingle goes up...?

[She'll take a look at the spa later - after slowly going a little stir-crazy on the ship, Hange wouldn't close herself in another building (no matter how luxurious) by choice.

Now, just as she's been, she prowls and paces along the edge of the forest, looking in. She looks excited: her eyes wide, pupils dilated, grinning absentmindedly. The movement never quite stops. The whoops and cries of distant birds or other, more alien things; the smell of wet ground and the rustle of leaves... it's like home, just like home, just like being at home, all she needs is her 3DMG and her horse and her squad. If only.

Hange will head in soon. She's seen that path and - it could be a trap, but her nature is way too direct to pass up so courteous an invitation. Soon enough...]

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[Fuck waiting around let's get this party started. Hange takes the path because why not, moving briskly, but also smiling very cheerfully. Quiet, for the moment.]

[He walks quickly behind her, making noise to let her know she's being followed. Not running after her, per se-- but when he saw their captain heading into the forest, he thought it best if he tagged along. It would be terrible if she were up and eaten by something, wouldn't it?]

[Wouldn't it be terrible? Wouldn't it be terrible if she was eaten by something enormous and stupid and nonsentient and mindlessly cruel? Something that ate humans regardless of whether they were men, women or children? Something that vomited the remains back up once its stomach was full?

IT SURE WOULD BE. 8)

Hange pauses at the snap of a twig and glances back - then smiles.

She does have a gun slung over her shoulder. She's prepared for something, at least!]

Well, well, are you keeping me company?

A walk in the woods usually calls for company. Not only for the conversation, but for when the big bad wolf comes calling.

[With a gentle smile he comes to her side.]

That's why I brought this little friend... [A shrug of one shoulder indicates the gun.]

Well, one more doesn't hurt. How are you settling in, Garak?

Oh, quite well. Everyone seems very friendly-- Coil's already taught me so much of his sign language. Indeed, I might settle in quite well here.

[Airily said, as they begin walking through the trees. It's not the kind of environment he truly loves, but he can appreciate the beauty of it-- though it seems a bit too quiet to be truly enjoyable.]

Good, good... I'm glad to hear it.

[She's attuned to the forest. It's homey in a way, to be journeying through enormous trees... it's familiar. A scout is safe in the trees, tall vertical surfaces parallel to each other.

Of course, she doesn't have her gear, so she can't truly be comfortable. Indeed, she's constantly scanning the trail and the forest for movement as they proceed.]

I wouldn't mind learning that sign language myself. [Though she doesn't mention Zhas is teaching her.] Coil's a complete mute, so it's necessary to communicate easily with him. [And it's something that she could take home, that could be extremely useful for Eren. The potential for him learning signing... it can't be missed. That's the true root of her interest.]

It's fascinating. We have nothing like that on the Cardassia . . . do you?

Not so much. Scouts have a few signals. To direct each other, for your leader to signal you at ease... but nothing as sophisticated as what they're displaying.

[She trots along. Nothing continues to happen, except them making their way along the path.

The forest will let them get good and deep before it springs any surprises on them.]

[normally he thinks that Hange is a capable leader, but right now he kind of thinks she's going to run off ahead of them and get eaten by bears.

keeping the robot's warning in mind, he gestures for Coil to go on ahead of him... he'll take up the rear, unless there are objections.]

[despite missing an eye, he makes for a good scout, so he is so all over that. he is more than ready to range out and do something. just as hotwired as the other two, but undoubtedly more subtle about it.

...and he's definitely keeping Hange on his seeing side, even though that leaves his blind side a little theoretically unguarded.]

[She's a little amused and a little irritated by the knowledge she's being baby-sat. In a way. But it's fine; she just lopes along, with the gun slung across her back. Nice and easy and good to be moving.

Really, this is homey for her. Familiar in more ways than one. Trees are good for scouts; they need vertical surfaces, ideally parallel, to make good use of their gear. If only she had her gear... a giant forest is really the most ideal place to use the 3DMG of all. Vertical surfaces all close enough that you can swing from one to the other, moving up or down as the situation requires it. She's automatically sort of cataloging how she'd work her strategies here.

Too bad it's worthless.

Regardless, she's quiet now, saving her breath for moving and scanning the forest around them steadily. It's harmless so far. Birdsong or something like it, insects whirring, leaves rustling... so lovely really.

Could that music really have come from here?

Anyway, the forest is going to let them get a little more comfortable and a little further in before it pulls out any big guns. Hange is already on edge; outside equals danger, equals being chased, at home. The woods will just let them move along further before it tries to discombobulate them.]

[hey, Hange is the one who suggested no one goes out alone.

Zhas is about as familiar with forests as he is with cities--it's not home, but it doesn't bother him. he knows where to look for danger, and to compensate for Coil's blind side. the place feels bizarre, but not any more threatening than any other forest.

he also keeps a forced calm around himself, maybe to compensate for Hange, as well. he doesn't doubt that she can keep herself together, he just... well, okay, maybe he does.]

[and Coil might not be entirely familiar with the forest, but... the magic here is just saturating him. it's a very small high that is keeping him aware and ready.

just drinking up all the energy his little makeshift rituals just haven't been able to give him.]

[Hey, she's very together right now. Give her something to concentrate on, a job to do, and watch how she smooths out almost instantly. A lot in common with the boys in that respect.

She likes the animal and insect noises and how, although the three of them travel in a little aura of silence, it closes after them quickly. Animal noises are security. Nothing's scaring them up. Brings back memories of riding through fields outside and scaring up birds, the titans chasing them scaring up birds...

It's nice, is all. They have solid minutes of peaceful travel and then in the distance still through the trees there is a sort of distant boom. A thud like a tree falling maybe or... something familiar to her. Hange turns her head like a bloodhound, face closing off abruptly. She was relaxed, now she's not. She starts to swing the gun off her shoulder, casually. Not hard for the boys to notice. That sounded... a little like... but it would be impossible...

But all of this should be impossible.]

Edited 2015-01-11 04:15 (UTC)

[he's so keyed-in to things like this that the sound catches his immediate attention. he tries to identify it--explosion? gunshot? maybe something falling, but nothing he's familiar with.

hange's energy is high. he keeps listening. if the sound gets closer, that's when they'll have a problem.]

[like Hange, he levels out when he's got a job to do, and that doesn't kick in until something actually happens.

the sound rumbles through the three of them, the energy shifts, and that's finally when Coil appears the most balanced. quietly and automatically, he drifts more toward the deeper pools of shadow near the side of the path--but not leaving it, surely--and pivots a little, to give him the widest field of vision. focused and waiting.]

[She speeds up a little, unconsciously. No real reason to it right this second. She's carrying the gun and jogging, with eyes mostly for the direction of the sound. Which means she can see it quite clearly - everyone probably can - when the giant, humanoid figure becomes clear.

It looks like it was maybe relaxing? Attracted by three little humans passing by. And now it's standing up. A ten-meter type, deformed and a little grotesque the way they usually are, with limbs too spindly for its bloated stomach and a head that's disproportionately small, brown-haired, grinning with brainless cheer, naked and clean-shaven with no sexual characteristics at all.

It spots them and then it makes a run for them. Maybe sixty feet away through the trees, it runs carelessly, snapping smaller plants, crushing shrubs, and brushing by the bigger trees. A wave of heat rolls in front of it, incredible heat pushing on them like a wind. Hange roars. She's squaring up to shoot.]

Off the trail! Get off the trail! Both of you off!

Edited 2015-01-11 05:43 (UTC)

[the funny thing is, there's this little voice at the back of his head that tells him this can't possibly be real. he's usually so good at following that instinct... but the sheer size of the thing that comes lumbering towards them really pushes all of that out of the way.

there's no way they can take that thing down. what is she thinking?

he takes several steps back towards the edge of the path, but remembers their warning--and stops short.]

[and Coil, being up ahead of Zhas, feels particularly small and vulnerable when this monster comes bearing down on them.

of all the abominations his family has created, all the creatures that he's fought since then, none of them could have compared to the sheer horror of this thing. he's awestruck, in both fascination and fear.

and he falls back fast, keeping his eyes on the creature and leaving Hange to her doom without a second thought, but it's only until Zhas comes into view out of the side of his vision. he stops there, side-by-side.]

[She's not thinking of taking it down but of blinding it, buying them a few second's time. It would be an incredibly insane fluke to be able to take the titan down with this little gun. Maybe if she shot through it's nape when it stuffed her in its mouth... if she still had all her limbs at that point.

Well, whatever, she ignores the boys for the moment, what they're doing or not doing, and fires, aiming for the head. The titan is closing the ground between them at a terrifying rate, running heedless of whatever it smashes into. It's a long shot, between the obfuscating foliage and the moving target, and a weapon Hange isn't exactly practiced with. Nevertheless it might be a good one... it's just hard to tell. There's an explosion of birds and wildlife being scared up around the approaching monster now, and the water in the wood is superheated by her ray guuuun and changes to steam almost instantly, cracking wood and hissing wildly.

Hange turns around, sees the boys still on the train, and rushes them to try and herd them both off.]

Get moving!

[yeah, this is way out of his league.

he's still hesitating by the side of the road. getting chased by this thing and getting crushed by falling timber sounds fun, sure--and in the middle of trying to piece together something to do, Hange is yelling at them and trying to bodily shove them off the road.

it's probably a really good idea, but he's still resistant to moving..]

[and Coil isn't going anywhere without Zhas.

so, when he finally tears his eyes away from the monster, it's to fiercely stare at his partner, pleading for him to tell him what to do.]

[You guys are pains in the ass. Hange will tackle Zhas off the trail if she has to, which is what she's trying next.]

[OOF WELL I guess he's getting tackled off the path, then. there's your order, Coil.]

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