Let's be war buddies...

[initiates]

Date & Time: 18th, beginning at 2100 hours, through to the 20th.
Location: All around Exsilium.
Characters: Everyone!
Summary: The United Earth decides Exsilium had obviously not learned its lesson back in October, and does another round of humble-making bombing for those impertinent exiles. OOC info can be found here.
Warnings: Violence, death, general gloom and doom.

The warning had gone out approximately two hours before the bombing began, broadcast to any available receptor on the island: UE aggressions incoming, bombs expected; please proceed to Catacombs immediately. It repeats over and over, right up until the first bomb, aimed at the Hold itself, silences the signal.

The air is thick with smoke and worse. Every one to two hours another bomb shakes the island. Buildings crumble and shatter, but the focus is on the Hold and the native hospital. Initiative employees, some sick as anyone else, are steadfast in their escorting natives and transports alike into the underground catacombs. For two days the bombs continue ceaselessly, dropped by their cloaked and invisible carriers overhead.

The United Earth is nothing if not thorough.

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[whatsupcroc]

Demons existed on Sango's world. Collette nodded, realizing belatedly how fruitless a gesture it was. "I know Japan! My friend Yosuke was from there, though he's from the 21st century, so that's hundreds of years later." Reaching for where the bowl was stored, she set things aside methodically to uncover her goal.

"Demons aren't common when I'm from, but I'm from further west. Though I kind of guess that I'm almost closer to the Far East for you? I mean, across the Pacific Ocean, if you call it that. It'd be whatever sea isn't on the side of Japan facing China."

Was China the name of China back then?

"I'll use the other canteen for Kirara." She opened the top, measuring out a half-full bowl, Collette carefully moved it toward Kirara. "May I touch her?" she asked, eyes wide and watching the large animal. She was such an astonishing creature!

With such an interesting friend, too.

[taijiya]

"They're not common in your time in general. I had a friend from your century and she never knew about them until she came back to mine." Pause. "Long story, that one."

She knew enough about the West to get the jist of what Collette was talking about. When she asked about Kirara, Sango shrugged.

But Kirara had seen the bowl of water and, deciding that it would be more satisfying if the bowl was not half the size of her head, chose that exact moment to transform to her smaller size in a burst of (mostly harmless) frame. Feeling the flash of heat, Sango frowned. "Kirara, you could at least give us a warning!"

At which point the now miniature Kirara just mewed and began licking, though she wouldn't be opposed to any attention from Collette.

[whatsupcroc]

"You had time traveling where you're from?" Collette was pleasantly surprised. A few people did have previous experience, but so often it wasn't when they themselves were from the significant past.

More significant than mine, she added to herself.

Kirara's size change produced a startled intake of air, then a great big smile from Collette. She laughed, a light sound, still trying to avoid exacerbating her cough.

"That's amazing!" Her hand felt some of the lingering heat in the flashing moment where Kirara changed size, and then it was gone. "How can she do that?"

She gingerly ran a hand down Kirara's back, awkwardly balanced to do so, but too fascinated to leave off for later. She finds the entirety of the large cat a mystery. It's almost as an afterthought that she realized she was concentrating so fully on Kirara that she'd started to aquire her, the six seconds of zenned out bliss that followed like a meditation for the individual being acquired beginning.

She pulled her hand back, red in the face. She really was still out of it.

"Have you guys eaten? Does Kirara need meat? What else can she do?" The barrage is interrupted by her starting to cough. Collette pulled back, leaning against the wall, and cupped her hands over her mouth.

[taijiya]

"We had a time traveler. But she could only go from one specific time to another, and it wasn't exactly a normal thing."

At Collette's laugh Sango couldn't help a faint smile despite herself, interrupted by a cough. "Well, I mentioned demons. She's one and she has a lot of talents."

Sango waited until Collette had stopped coughing to answer the questions. "We're alright for food, Kirara can fend for herself. She can fly and she's fireproof, as she's just demonstrated. Are you alright, though?"

[whatsupcroc]

Collette laughed, this time not finding herself coughing by the end. "Are you kidding? I'm getting better, and I just got to pet a demon cat. I'm great! I'm more worried about you."

She sounded chipper, though she wasn't expressly lacking in sincerity. "Alphonse has a lot of kittens he's taking care of down the way," she offered, a nonsequitor given for the sake of distraction. "Has anyone looked at your injuries yet? I can call for someone to come over here and make sure what they can address is okay."