[hr][hr][h1][b][i][center][color=Olive]Richard Laine[/color] & [color=ForestGreen]Ayita Dyrkin[/color][/center][/i][/b][/h1]
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[center] [b][color=Olive]Location: Sub-Basement - Operating Theater[/color][/b] [/center]
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Richard gave a short and pained chuckle. [color=Olive]"Snake Man? Close enough, Card Man."[/color] The Adder wrapped a arm about his middle, feeling the loss of a kidney at the moment. A body battered and injured and all he could do was lay about. Which wasn't improving his mood in the slightest. He wasn't angry per say, but rather peeved and Marygold had crossed a line. That line's name was Ayita, and for his sister? He had done a lot already.

[color=Olive]"If you want to get all properly serpent and all things snake-like... I'm more of an Adder. Proper English Slytherin."[/color] The former assassin chuckled at his own little joke. Though he sobered at hearing Marygold's tears. He wanted to rip the girl a new one, honest as the sky was blue. Though he was loath to place the blame all on her if whatever issue Ayita had with the red-head was mixed up with the recent bout of mind control. [color=Olive]"And I'm not going rip into her, for now anyways. But I [i]am[/i] going to find out what she said exactly to my baby sister to make her cry and come to me."[/color] There was a fearsome glint in Richard's eyes. [color=Olive]"Ayita has had enough of [i]that[/i] in her life, and I'll be damned if she has to put up with more disdain from within this little group for what she is."[/color]

[color=ForestGreen]"I should be used to such things as of now."[/color] The woman noted dryly. [color=ForestGreen]"I will hunt this prey down better when I am bandaged- as much as I dislike it. It is not a choice, it is a necessity."[/color] The wild woman slipped through the door into the crowded medical room. An 'operating theater'. Humans and their naming of things. Studying the crowd for a long moment she dismissed each. A hand gripping Carolina's shoulder and releasing it quickly as she passed, her strides taking her to her older brother. [color=ForestGreen]"Richard."[/color] The woman sighed and gripped the man's face as she studied the snake-eyed man who was her kin.

Richard chuckled and shooed his sister's hands off, noting the burns and cuts on her skin. [color=Olive]"You're injured."[/color] [i]Who?[/i] He wanted to ask the question, but Ayita was glanced over towards Jean with a shake of her head.

[color=ForestGreen]"Leave it. The bastard Mesmero got into my mind."[/color] Richard paused as he heard the pure rage in Ayita's voice. It was not common that Ayita let that rage focus on someone other than herself. Oh, she could get annoyed with people and dislike them. But to outright hate them? The Adder shruddered as he read the predator in his sister's eyes. She would not stop til the blood of Mesmero was staining the ground. Not with a lover up North, a brother in the South, and friends all about. He almost wanted to smile, as Ayita moved to forage for supplies to tend to her wounds.

Looking over at Marygold, Ayita pointedly ignoring the 'leader'. Though she was sure to make damn sure that ring on her finger was gleaming bright. Old and worn it might be, but dammit all! It was hers! Damon was hers, and she was his. That kept her from turning and demanding satisfaction from the weeping little bundle of [i]prey[/i]. Returning to her brother's side, she pointedly placed herself between the Adder and Poison Ivy. Not to protect her form him, but so that she would have to go through Ayita to get to the only family aside from Allison and her mate that Ayita had left. She had found nothing to help her own wounds, so she cast her amber eyes about before lighting on Jean. [color=ForestGreen]"What might help for the burns that your mate inflicted when I was rampaging?"[/color] Her brother stiffened but understood the termage. Rampaging... Ayita had given him the info he needed. That she was alive was testament to the fact she had been turned away and not so badly injured because of that.