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Ruby Redford
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What little light there was vanished. Ruby rummaged through her bag for one of her torches and lit one just as the man in the group lit his. But as they lifted up their lights to see down the hallway, all illumination stopped beyond a certain point as if at a brick wall of darkness.

From that darkness emerged a grin.

"Oh, wah [i]howdy[/i]!" it drawled.

Ruby did not much feel like greeting it back.

"Mah, this is [i]certain-lay[/i] awkward," it continued. "Ah imagine you can sympathize. I have just been [i]dyin'[/i] t'meetcha, and- well, I get so [i]bashful[/i]. Lucky me, I still got my personality."

Still no one spoke. Ruby, for her part, noted that this [i]thing[/i] was trying to sound conciliatory, in the way powerful beings do when trying to balance their pride with desire. She waited for the thing to tip its hand - which it did shortly thereafter.

"Now then, y'all got me got me up in a tizzy just wondering whatcha doin', making so much [i]noise[/i]. See, we're here, gunna do our best, but it'd be rude of us to just start!"

[color=crimson]Start what? Being creepy? Congratulations, you win the grand prize.[/color]

It got even creepier when the second head showed up.

[color=red]"Jiminy Crickets..."[/color] Ruby muttered.

"Keepa, we'd prefer ya know me as. Just here to do what I can for such...enticing...individuals. C'mon, now, all y'all got names. You humans love that kinda thang." Keepa took one look at Kite and added, "Now, what's that one's problem? Wuzza mattah, Stardust? Cat gotcha tongue?" They snickered and turned to ask the man, "So, whadda they caaaalll ya, baby?"

One head looked over the rest of the group and said, "Now y'all don't feel so unincluded! We haven't forgotten all ya's."

The man, to his credit, stood his ground and answered boldly. "Call me Walker. It's a pleasure, Keepa. Apologies about the noise. Seems it travels rather uniquely in this lovely place you have here, and since we're just passing through, we can certainly be on our way and not causing anymore noise, if you'd be so kind? Save us all the trouble of being in each other's way."

Ruby mustered up the most sincere smile she could manage. Hey, perhaps they were nice and just didn't know how to look the part. But just in case they were like fey or something: [color=red]"Hiya! I'm Sierra Sinclaire. It's a real pleasure to make your acquaintance. Walker and I were just about to check out the mess hall. Wanna come with? I brought some homemade snacks."[/color] She lifted a package of pemmican and grinned.