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Characters: Dinah Lance and OPEN
Date: July, all after Clueventure
Location: Wood Sector, and wherever you need her.
Situation: There are ideas and commitments that Dinah started before being distracted by detective work. Now she intends to follow up on them.
Warnings/Rating: Blood, wounds in the Arthur thread.
I started with prose, but will switch to action if you'd like.

General Starter: She found it in the wood sector, a courtyard formed by four trees growing from each corner, growing and intertwining together above, walled by hedges that have been growing out since the last master left. As soon as she had a spare morning and the presence of mind to do so, it is here Dinah returns.

She keeps the name and cleans first the sign painted so neatly in Chinese: “The Jade School of Kung Fu, overseen by Grand Master Shifu.” She doesn't know what happened to the Grand Master, but a dojo cannot be left unused, and she plans to honor this Master she never met by returning his space to the use it was intended.

She sent messages to the people she knew were interested in training with her, to let them know where they could be found, then she set about trimming the hedges, sweeping the building and the courtyard, and transforming it into a usable dojo again.

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Kon was already bored. He didn't regret their decision and only wished that they had gotten back without the other device being grabbed. Being here only made him hate Evandau more, despite the fact that really, it was his own fault. Not that he's ever going to agree to that though. Ever.

He's never been in prison here before. He's been threatened though. It's not a place he wants to come back to.

So when he hears Dinah he gets up from his sitting position by one of the walls and walks over. He huffs and blows up at the curl that falls over.

"C'mon BC, like you would have just sat back and did what you were told."

"Funny how I've managed to make it this long without being arrested, though."

She does what she wants, but only when she knows she's going to get away with it. She's almost smiling though: he has a point. If she thought she could get away with it, she might have tried what they tried.

"How's your stay so far?"

"We wouldn't have gotten arrested if they hadn't been such jerks about things. It goes against what we do, like we were just gonna let things go to them. They hate us BC. That Evandau dude has always preferred we stayed out of it and then suddenly he wants us to help and when we do, we get the police tape and barriers slammed up in front of us with a 'Top Secret' stamp and everything."

He looks away from the light and glares at the opposite wall just ever so slightly lit up from her flashlight. His arms are crossed and he looks the picture of a stroppy teenager.

"Could do with having some cable. Maybe a light or two. Two stars at the most. Man CADMUS is better than this dump. Smells better too."

"Well," she says levelly. "Sometimes it's hard to admit you need help, especially from people you have little reason to trust."

Having already tired of the job of lecture lady with Bart and Tim, she shrugs, and picks up a bag she brought in with her. There are some small objects in the bottom of the bag, but the larger one - the one that dictates the shape the fabric takes - is flat and about a foot square.

"So I take it the entertainment's not up to much."

"Little reason to trust? Seriously? Is that what you think? Take it from me babe, it's got nothin' to do with trust. Those jerks think they can just tell us what to do. They tell us not to do anything, to leave it to them despite us being brought here and having to live on this crummy turtle. No offense Asti. But then when shit actually hits the fan, better call the Foreigners in. I helped them because a lot of the kedan are nice, and I did it for us. It's their fault there's this clear divide between us."

Kon. He has a lot of feelings and anger at Evandau and the Emperor.

"Why now? Why did they wait when things got so bad? Because we were the last option instead of including us straight away, and when we get so far, they rip the chance to do anything away again. They slam us in jail BC. Jail! All because we wanted to go back before they slammed the damn tape up and wiped it."

And now he's resting his head back because he's ranted out. He doesn't have his powers because he's that wound up that he'd want to break something like a window, the light fixture somewhere. Or punch the wall. He reaches up and scrubs his face, looking back at Dinah with a frown.

"Super fresh. What's in that?"

Letting the rant go, because she thinks it was needed, if not totally deserved, she leans forward and pushes the bag through the bars of his cell.

"It's been thoroughly inspected to make sure I'm not giving you anything forbidden," she says lightly, and lets him look in himself.

When he does so, he'll find their homemade chess set and the board they carved out together.

"Figured Red Robin or Kid Flash could give you a work out. Let them win a couple of times, okay?"

Kon looks at it and takes the other end as it's fed through. He isn't sure about what it could be but hearing that it was given the go ahead by the jailers...well it was upsetting. Upsetting because it wasn't a way to bust them out of jail. But he opens it anyway and then he's hit hard by what he sees. He reaches in and takes out one of the kings Dinah had made that day and he smiles as he runs a thumb along the carved shapes. The anger he felt from before leaves him almost straight away. He looks up at her, still smiling and nods his head.

"Thanks. This...It means a lot. Really."

And then he nods and his smile turns a little wicked.

"False sense of security, huh?"

She returns his wicked smile with one of her own - and she's capable of some fairly wicked smiles, as it happens.

"And you know how fragile Bategos are. It's important they think they're the cleverest."

"And just when they think they've got it, BAM totally thrashed, S.B style!"

"That's the idea."

[Open]

BUT YOU LOVE THEM! Laugh and find another chess partner :|!

THIS IS NOT FUNNY except it totally is.

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