epidemiology

CHARACTERS: Maya Fey & some other chumps & YOU.
DATE: May.... ish... don't look at me.
WARNINGS: Maya is in this.
SUMMARY: Roomba rescue adventures?? Catchall? Bounties? Oh boy how exciting.

I; (Pre-Electric Sheep)

[ so, you're minding your own business -- maybe returning to the hotel after a long day of being a good Hathaway team member, or just doing reconnaisance. out of the corner of your eye you notice -- shia labeouf. just kidding, it's fucking maya fey, and she's standing on two roombas. one foot on one roomba. out of pure witchcraft or dumb luck, or whatever, both are headed in the same direction. your direction. ]

Watch out, Roomba Racer coming through!!

[ prepare to get run over. or awkwardly bumped into. ]

II;

[ speaking of roombas ---- maya's not finished with them. in the upper class, even -- far away from the broadcasting station (thankfully), maya's got herself a little high end fancy bot. and she appears to have..... taped paper animal ears and a tail onto it while the poor machine is just trying to pick up trash. ]

Come on Marshy! Let's go save the day!

[ yeah the paper tail comes off... and is nearly devoured by the robot, except maya snatches it away at the last second and then sighs dramatically. ]

.... It's not the same.

[ it's at this point that she notices that you are around. she plucks off the paper ears and holds them out in your direction. ]

Hey, you wouldn't mind if I called you Marshmallow while you wore these, right?

[ she's kidding. ......hopefully. ]

III;

[ sooo, in midst of the escape from the hideout, you're walking in on an altercation -- or, well, it looks like an altercation went down. there's an unconscious vakdir man with damaged body armor badly bleeding on the ground --- and a discarded knife close by. kneeling right beside him is a young woman, who upon close enough examination, (because she's in disguise) is maya fey. she's got her hands over the vakdir's wound (and they've got a bit of blood on them, oops) and is using psychic energy to heal his wounds. under her coat, something's glowing. ]

[ also, she's crying. she's crying a lot. this is awkward. ]

I didn't--- this isn't---- I can't---

[ honestly, just keep walking. ]

IV; (Free Bird)

[ okay maya's back in business. she, along with you, have snuck into this secure facility -- somehow --- the vakdir prison, and she's here and ready to save inuyasha and his two sidekicks --- ]

Are you ready for this?! We're gonna bust in and rescue them!

[ this appears to be her pep talk, delivered in a too loud stage whisper. luckily, the vakdir's patrols have lead them away from the moment, so she didn't just get them both captured. yet. anyway, she peeks her head around the corridor to where the prisoners are being kept, and --- ]

.... Shoot! This is the wrong prison!

[ how did she even manage that. ] .... Well, whatever. Let's just rescue these other guys while we're here. Deal?

[ honestly, why are you still here. just leave. ]

[ Okay, here's a really weird sight --- in rich people land, there's a lone figure kneeling on a bench (yeah, kneeling instead of sitting) while the rain pours down, hands pressed together and eyes closed as if they're in deep concentration --- yeah it's Maya, what the fuck is she doing. She looks like she's been at it for hours, she's thoroughly drenched and even shivering a little despite the intense look of concentration on her face. She's not even wearing rain clothes, what the shit. Approach Y/N? ]

Wildcard?!

[ you know the drill. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[If Veronica were asked, she would say that she's doing recon to see whether their friends might be in trouble where they're captured. Of course, she has no way of knowing whether any actual friends have been locked away. One person locked away isn't a friend.

The reality is that there's a comfort in being in the upper levels. The comfort coincides with the deep ... discomfort of knowing that people here are just out and out horrible. They only look out for themselves.

Which ... explains why Maya is allowed to kneel on a bench like that. No one cares to help.

Until Veronica steps in and covers her with an umbrella.]

Maya, [she begins firmly, doing her best to draw her out of whatever trance is going on here.]

[ maya, on the other hand, is clearly doing being rich wrong: she's been granted access to the upper levels and spends her time kneeling on benches in the rain, apparently. no one's stopped to even question this, aside from a few sidelong looks from the vakdir, no one's even paid much attention to her. ]

[ until now, anyway. she doesn't immediately notice that the rain is no longer falling on her, but veronica's voice cuts through her meditation trance. she cracks her eyes open, looking like a drowned rat. ]

.... Veronica? What's up?

[ she says, like she's not acting super weird right now. ]

[Veronica is honestly concerned about Maya's health, and she's asking her what's up? Is she trying to get sick? Does she want to see if she can get treated by the medical centers up here? There are times when her whimsy is directly related to food, but this doesn't seem like one of them.

She merely responds at first by angling the umbrella a little better, ensuring that they both get its coverage.]

I believe that is a question better suited from me to you.

[ truly, it is a mystery for the ages. but yeah, maya is weirdly casual about this --- maybe she is trying to get hypothermia. ]

Oh, I was just training.

[ she says, like it's a perfectly normal thing she's doing. ]

I couldn't find any waterfalls, soooo, I figured, since it's raining all the time....

[ completely logical here. even though she's shivering violently. ]

Did you consider the shower back at the hotel? [Veronica can only manage to withhold her judgment to some degree—which is to say that she hasn't been terribly successful. She extends a hand to Maya to help her up. She's not the type to nag someone for their choices, but this is definitely a scenario that requires ... some movement somewhere. And warmth. And dry clothing.]

Yeah... but the water pressure was too low. [ she says that with such seriousness it just highlights how weird this whole situation is. if maya notices any judgment, it doesn't seem to affect her general... mayaness.... she does take her hand and get up though. ]

I'm not sure this is enough pressure either.... I wonder if any of the Vakdir have fire hoses or anything?

[ she's really not helping veronica's attempts not to judge her, huh. ]

Okay. One: a fire hose will hurt you. [So, that's out of the way. Does Maya know that? Veronica thinks it's highly likely that Maya does not know that.]

And two, we need to back up. What are you training for again?

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