Safi --- Cussanke (Cuss)
We have the crococat monster prompt, or well I do and I am looping KYRIT and KODAI into the shenanigans
This was a mistake.
It had to be done, of that she was sure, but maybe not like this.
Not with this idiot. Safi watched the chaos two feet ahead of her struggle with... a plastic bag?
"What on Evelon are you doing?" She asked, exasperation heard even through Cuss' thick skull, if the glare he shot back at her was any indication. The chaos turned around and walked back to her, making the seraphim freeze and scowl in anger and confusion.
"Look," Cuss said, taking her by the shoulders firmly, but not aggressively, "YOU asked ME to be here, so I don't want... This," he said gesturing to all of her which... forced her to relax the stiff stance she was carrying if only so she could look at herself, "look I don't care if I'm here or not. But I'm here because you asked me to be here so... If you don't want to be here, we can go man. Show me you're at least WILLING to do... whatever we're doing?"
He had no problems with the job, he'd done shadier, scarier shit than this... With the seraphim in front of him, no less. But he didn't want party members who didn't want to be there, or work with him. That he couldn't stand.
For a moment Safi looked shocked, then ashamed. Gods, had she turned into that person? She looked up to apologize but instead blurted out: "Kay"
Cuss, who had thought he'd spoken pretty eloquently, thank you, drooped.
"What? That's it? Aren't you all artsy-writer or-"
"No, I mean, yes I'll do better but that's uh-" She looked around Cuss' body to see a familiar figure in a white mask dissapear into the crowd.
"It's K-32206!"
"Is that a phone?" Cuss asked, turning as Safi ducked around him and went after whoever she had seen.
Cuss, being the kind of person who parts crowds a lot more than dodges through them, managed to follow after her only because she was dressed head to toe in bright blues.
Real sneaky, Safi. Aren't you on the run? Seraphim...
Cuss caught up just in time for Safi to introduce him to:
"Kay and N, got it," Yeah he wasn't messing with that string of numbers BS, "So, you're headed to the sewers too, right? Safi didn't want to go in the main entrance, we picked out a good spot with little traffic during the festival."
Cuss steered the group that way while Safi and "Kay" catching up on whatever nerds catch up on. Cuss was trying to get a read on this N guy but best way to get to know somebody was to do stuff with them.
Down an alley Cuss gave a few bags of trash a kick and voila, a manhole cover.
"Mind helping me with this.... N?" He asked, crouching down as he got his fingers in the holes on one side of the cover. He could lift it by himself, or just erode the thing away, but again he was trying to get a read on this N guy and what he could do.
Kay and Safi were both nerds, but this guy? If they were going to shuffle around in a sewer he had to know what he was working with, right?