( open ) 007

[harimaya]

Who ⬤ Hizen Tadahiro & you
What ⬤ Catchall for open substories, closed prompts, and custom starters for September and October.
When ⬤ September and October
Where ⬤ Everywhere
Content Warnings ⬤ N/A for now

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[harimaya]

(Talking to people...)

What a drag. (And he shrugs. If they need to ask the front house staff then--) We're on the wrong side.

(They're in the back right now. )

[tonguecutter]

[ Somehow, she's not surprised to hear that Hizen thinks that having to talk to others for information is a drag. Somehow. She nods. ]

Before we head over to the front, we should at least take another look at this alleyway, just in case. Two pairs of eyes can be better than one, so you might be able to spot something I missed, chirp.

[ Footprints, coins or other small baubles that the man may have dropped in his haste to escape. She might not be as insightful as Fionn or Tamamo, or as much of a detective as Sherlock Holmes himself, but she also doesn't want to let that liar of a man escape his punishment if she can help it. ]

[harimaya]

(Chirp... she's been doing that a bit. It feels rude to ask but he wonders if it's something like Nansen's "nya's.")

If he jumped, he could have dropped something when he landed. (Which has him looking around more in the area they're standing right now.) Probably be too much to hope for an ID or something...

(Anyway, while he looks, he's also just going to ask.)

... So are you some sort of bird.

[tonguecutter]

[ Beni follows suit, her eyes scanning their immediate surroundings for something, anything, that might prove to be helpful. Footprints are hard to come by when feet meet concrete and not mud. However, she stops her scan, momentarily, when addressed. ]

I'm a sparrow. A sparrow oni, to be specific.

[ Not that much different from the yokai hustling and bustling all over this fair city, in all honesty. ]

[harimaya]

(Hizen is not above getting dirty for the job. In fact, he's just going to get down on the ground and look under some of the boxes-- soggy and mildewy from water and even under the gross dumpster. You never know where things might get kicked.)

Ain't ever heard of a sparrow being an oni.

(Looking up from the ground,)

Dunno if you're big for a bird or small for an oni...

[tonguecutter]

[ Neither is Beni, used to taking all sorts of physically dirty jobs, ranging from cleanup around the inn to cleaning up hunted game. Hizen's got the right idea though, even if she flattens her expression at his response. She crouches, peering into some of the crates and examining their bases. ]

Oni come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.

[ So there. ]

I might be small for an oni [ even counting Ibaraki and Shuten, she's smaller than them, and even tinier in her sparrow form ], but I'll still cut off that man's lying tongue in one fell swoop.

[ If he doesn't give her a very, very good reason to stay her blade, at least. It's less a brag and more of simple confidence in her abilities. ]