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[This is Arthur. This is Arthur leaning against a closet door, his suit slightly rumpled (in fact, there's a tear in one of his sleeves), his hair out of place. Still, he carries himself like this is PERFECTLY NORMAL. Oh yeah, and he's holding a pool cue. Before he speaks, Arthur smooths his hair back.]

To the library staff: sorry. I left a few books out of place. I'll come by as soon as possible to put them back.

[From the closet, there's suddenly an outburst of loud banging and intermittent swears. Very creative swears. Arthur rolls his head back against the door and then throws an irritated look over his shoulder, as though the closet's occupant can see, before turning back to the camera.]

Blonde. Female. [BANG BANG. There's probably a "cocksucker" there, too.] About five foot... one? [He holds the cue out horizontally, five feet from the ground, to illustrate.] I'd say... twelve years old?

Does she belong to anybody? Or do we often receive unsupervised children?

[OOC: After THIS THREAD. Arthur was trying to find somewhere secure to put Mindy until she regained consciousness, but she woke up in his arms and started attacking him again, SO HE SHOVED HER IN THE CLOSEST ROOM: A RANDOM CLOSET.]

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[When the handle jabs upward, Arthur slams the pool cue down at an angle to knock it off course and away from his ribs. He swings it again, lower this time, in an attempt to knock her off balance. Problem is, Arthur doesn't have that much experience with... polearms, so he's not expecting a great deal of success here. He's hoping that if he and Paddy can get her to Angelica, she'll calm the hell down.]

Edited 2010-09-14 00:30 (UTC)

[Paddy spends a moment watching what was going off and makes a move to get behind her (as much as the corridor and cupboard allowed) and grab onto her arm or something from out of the range of her new weapon.]

Hey. Nobody's gonna fucking well hurt you if you give us five fucking minutes. Drop it already.

[This was surreal.]

[The cue is too long for her to avoid it completely--between his deflection and the sweep, she almost goes down.

And then Paddy grabs her arm, giving her a moment of stability. She switches her grip on the staff, instead trying to slam it down on Paddy's foot and break free.]

[DAMN IT, KID. Arthur's tempted to hit her with the pool cue, but it wouldn't do much to convince her they don't mean harm. Plus, he's pretty sure having the "You're on the Barge" talk while concussed is a bad idea. He tosses the cue aside and makes a grab for the makeshift staff, positioning his hands above and below hers. Quickly, he twists and pulls, trying to make her lose her grip on it.]

[Paddy tries to pull his foot back and doesn't get too far, so she hits his toe and he swears and yelps, but is determined to hold on to her arm and tries to pull back as Arthur pulls the stick away. He doesn't want to hurt her, but equally... violence. This better work, as limping and fighting didn't go too well.

[AND LO, Arthur gets the staff away. So Paddy has one arm, she has no weapon, and this is very bad. She wrenches, trying once again to get away as she brings her heel down, aiming for the same toe.]

[HEY SO ARTHUR GRABS THE OTHER ARM and says very very firmly-- AND OH HEY, IRRITABLY TOO:]

We just want to talk.

[At least now they're finally in a better position to drag her to the common room. Please please please, Angelica, calm her down.]

[Paddy, having kids of his own, was going to try his best to help calm her down too,] Just come, have a chat with us, we're gonna help you out, alright, we're not here to hurt you or fuck with you or screw you over. Give us a chance before you beat us to shit, yeah?

And leave my foot alone. [See, now that was starting to hurt.]

[She's just going to stand here, glaaaring at the two of you and quietly seething. SHE'LL GO IF YOU WALK HER, BUT SHE AIN'T TALKING.]

[DOOP DE DOO AND THEN THEY DRAGGED HER OVER TO THE COMMON ROOM.]

[Angelica is waiting for them there, surprised to see that it had taken two grown men to fetch the girl.

Lord, what was she supposed to say?]

Edited 2010-09-14 04:27 (UTC)

[Mindy eyed the newest addition to this little party, not trusting her any more than she did the two thugs who had her arms.] So what. You get the assholes to grab me and you're going to tuck me in and tell me to be a good little girl?

Heaven Above, no. I am not here to tell you what to do. [And she doubted she'd listen anyway.] Do you have any idea where you are presently? Have you by chance seen some of the ship?

[Arthur motions to a chair, although he's not about to let his guard down or anything.] Have a seat, please.

[NOW SKIP HIM.]

[Paddy figures Arthur's got their backs covered, so goes to join Angelica with a slight limp,] She's right. We ain't here to boss you around or anything. [Even if, in a way, they were, but his boys hated thinking they were being told what to do.] We just want to explain what's goin' on. I'm Paddy.

[Mindy glares at the room at large, crossing her arms and not moving toward the chair. AT LEAST SHE'S NOT TRYING TO MAKE A RUN FOR IT.] So explain.

I must stress that you are entirely free to move about this place. You may come and go as you please. However, you cannot persist in attacking people at random, for if you do there are facilities in the lower levels designed to lock someone away temporarily if they pose a danger to others. [Having said this, Angelica goes ahead and calmly sits herself down.]

I am not sure where you think you are presently, but what-ever that place may be, this is not it.

Surely you've done a little wandering. You might have noticed that you are on a ship, but not a ship that would strike you as familiar. Worth noting is that there are over a hundred occupants living here upon this...barge, and most of them have woken up only to find themselves here, the same as you.

What is the last memory you have before you found yourself here?

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