You Can't Go Home Again [Open]

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

Karis could tell she was going to hate this place. But exploration and pointed questions had brought her to the Sensoriums. After some experimentation (and some explanation from the weird ship construct), she'd grasped the purpose of it. And she'd started poking at it. She'd summoned up half-remembered battlefields and the cold reaches of Northrend. She'd wandered the halls of the Undercity for a time, rebuilt from inside of her head and out of her memories.

It was extremely disconcerting to think that it was gone forever. She knew nothing lasted, after all, but she'd never imagined it to be gone within her lifetime (so to speak), wiped out by something she'd never had a chance to fight, the world gone with a whimper instead of with a blazing last stand against the forces of the Legion. She'd wandered through the eerily empty roads of Loraderon - no familiar patrols, no Forsaken hurrying to the Undercity on business, no Blood Elf diplomats. Nothing.

And then she'd settled on one memory. A dilapidated farm house, falling apart, windows smashed in. The fields outside overgrown with weeds and other plants. The barn nothing but a scorched ruin, burned out long ago. A fine mist covers everything, making it all damp. Karis stands at the edge of the field, leaning on her poleaxe, immobile, as she looks at the house across the way. 

This too was gone.

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[icanhashat.livejournal.com]

"What a dump."

Oh good, someone was intruding on this private moment. A tall scruffy looking man, broad shouldered, thuggish looking.

"The hell happened around here?" He looked at her unimpressed.

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

Karis glances over at the man, yellow eyes glaring balefully, "A lot of shit happened, that's what."

The zombie rattles her fingers against the haft of her poleaxe with irritation. "Who the fuck are you?"

[icanhashat.livejournal.com]

It was only then that Jayne realized the girl wasn't...well strictly human.

"Name's Jayne. And if this is how it looked before maybe getting nuked by the bugs wasn't so bad." Yeah, being an asshole was kind of his deal.

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"Jayne? Well, Jayne, I'm Karis Needleteeth. And this..." She gestures at the landscape, "This was Lordaeron. And it was doing just fine before it got torn apart by these Ohm fucks, so I'll ask you to shut the hell up."

[icanhashat.livejournal.com]

"What you mean it's supposed to look like this?" He sounded surprised...but not intimidated. "Gorram there ain't a thing out here looks worth more then a bottle of beer. Cheap Beer." He remained unimpressed...and an asshole.

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"There was a war, dumbass. No one lives at this farm anymore." She snorted indignantly. "Damn, you breathers are stupid."

[icanhashat.livejournal.com]

"I'm stupid? You're the one standin' around lookin' all weepy over a dead worthless farm that don't even exist anymore." He shot back. "What's the point of it? Unless you like being depressed, then THAT'S stupid."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"I'm not standing around bein' weepy, I'm just looking at it, asshole. And no one invited your stupid breather ass in here, so why don't you make a like a tree and get the fuck out of my sight?"

[icanhashat.livejournal.com]

"You gonna make me?" He challenged without even a hint of humor, "Cuz if you wanted "private time" Then this was a lousy place to look for it. People wander in and out of these rooms all the time."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

The poleaxe came off of her shoulder as her grip shifted, "You're damn right I will, tough guy."

[icanhashat.livejournal.com]

"The hell is that supposed to be?" Jayne grunted but didn't tense up, "Just as well. Even if you actually hit me with that stupid lookin' thing the ship would just punish you." He smirked and jerked his thumb upwards, "Mama bear doesn't like when the cubs get rowdy."

Jayne was of coarse, only half telling the truth reguarding Stacy's amount of influence and control in that regard.

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"...you really think that's going to stop me?" Karis sounded incredulous and amused at the same time. "Shit, I don't care. I can probably break at least one of your extremities before security or whatever gets me."

[icanhashat.livejournal.com]

"Better people then you have tried woman." He laughed still seemingly relaxed, "Are you even people? What the hell are you supposed to be?"

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"You can pull up anything and you choose this place?" Howard says incredulously, taking a look around. He's visiting the Sensoriums again after running into Sasami and watching her create zero-gravity. "This looks worse than my hometown and believe me, that place wasn't pretty."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

The zombie swings her head around to stare at Howard, "...it was home. Not that I asked for your opinion."

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"Ugly home," he states. "I didn't know that you handed out licenses for opinion-givers."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"There was a war."

That explains everything, obviously, because Karis doesn't offer any explanation beyond that.

"Shit happens. Things don't always stay the same. And it could be a lot worse," she grins. It isn't a very nice grin. "You should see Southshore."

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"Yeah, no shit. Reparations crew too pricey or something?" He's not all that sympathetic to war, but the wreckage of his hometown after the 'poof' drained most of his tiny pool of sympathy several months ago. "What, Southshore looks worse?"

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"No one lives here anymore. The people who used to live here are all dead."

Partially true. She turns to look at him again, that same nasty grin staying on her face. Her teeth, it seems have been sharpened. "We turned Southshore into a wasteland."

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"Yay. Wastelands and carnage." He claps slowly and sarcastically. "I'm sure that was very exciting for you."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"Oh, yeah. It was great. Gets me hot."

Honestly, from her tone of voice, it's hard to tell if she's serious or not. And she's a zombie. Who knows?

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"Way, way, way too much information, Fangs. Did not need to know that."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"Needleteeth, please. Or Needles, if you really have to shorten it." She went back to grinning. She felt firmly in control of the conversation once again and that made her very pleased with herself indeed.

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"Sure, Fangs. Whatever you say." He gets the feeling he doesn't want to offer his name unless asked.

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"So, you usually barge in on people in these things or what?" She arched a brow, eying the human over. "Or am I special?"