Nia was waiting for her partner to get ready. They were just about ready to leave. Nia really didn't mind waiting for him as he was never too late and it never really caused problems, at least not in her mind. She had heard about people disappearing around the sphinx in egypt, The rumors were that some small Sphinx like creature had been killing people and leaving their bodies outside the sphinx. It was said to be the sphinx itself passing judgement but Lord Death didn't believe it so a job went up and we took it. Now it was time for us to head out and investigate and possibly get a new kishin soul.

Thomas exhaled with finality as he gazed around the apartment once more, just to make sure everything looked alright. He had a habit of taking too long to get ready, and it mostly rested on his constant feeling of forgetting something. Some of his friends had commented on how much like a woman his fear of forgetting things was, and he usually replied with something along the lines of, "At least I don't transform into a little girl's sword, Jim." This was a statement usually met with an annoyed but resigned grumble.

Briefly, the blond thought about just grabbing a little duffle to bring, but the idea was immediately shot down when he thought of carrying it through the desert. Or even carrying it all, seeing as how he would be a chainsaw for most of the trip.

It was only a few more seconds of looking around the room before Thomas forced himself to walk out the door with an itching feeling in his brain that he was forgetting to do something.

Nia looked at Thomas as he emerged to meet her. "Good you look ready... you will probably want to be in weapon form once we get there as it will be very hot." She of course was not looking forward to going to the desert as she was going to burn up. But it was the job they chose as a team regardless of what actually happened. She began to walk towards the train knowing it would taken them half way there before they had to walk. "I have plenty of resources for us both alright but I want to use them sparingly if we can." She sat down on the train leaving plenty of room around her.

Thomas nodded and yawned, already thinking about the long train ride ahead. The thing he hated most about them were the uncomfortable seats, and the extreme lack of sleep he got on the long, bumpy rides. Most people could get a decent nap on those things, but Thomas had no idea how anyone could actually stand the constant bumpiness of the rails. At least, he thought, the carbonated refreshments were provided for free to students at DWMA.

Briefly, the blond stretched his arms out before plunking down into his seat across from Nia. A little grainy table stood stoutly between them, bolted to the thinly-carpeted floor. Thomas casually leaned onto his elbows on the table and watched wistfully as the outside world began to pass by.

"What do you think it looks like? The sphinx, I mean? Its hard to believe that we're surrounded by desert, yet finding a kishin like this one hasn't even come close to our missions..."

Nia shrugged, "I don't know what it will look like but I expect it to look somewhat similar to the Sphinx, after all people have been mistaking it for the real thing." She stared out the window at the barren desert and realized that if they got lost it would be one hell of a time getting back to civilization. She also knew that the shifting sands would be tough to fight on. She hoped to fight it in the streets before it attacked again but there was no way to tell when or where it would attack.

The train hit a bump in the tracks, jolting the whole cart and its passengers. A few disgruntled murmurs sounded from the sparse amount of bodies in the area. Thomas briefly wondered what kind of tourists went on vacation in the desert.

"It's a shame, you know? I've heard that its really something to see. Apparently the woman part of it is pretty sexy." Thomas grinned mischievously as he took a sip of his soda. The wind picked up outside of the train, and he could hear the grains of sand pelting the thick windows. He was suddenly very glad to be a weapon; the most this weather could do to him was get sand in his blades.