tushanshu_logs | [OPEN] In the palace of a thousand eyes...

Characters: Bakura, Elizabeth, Jack
Date: Through May
Location: Various
Situation: Catch all for May
Warnings/Rating: None yet

A. BAKURA - In Jail

Following Bakura's arrest as a result of his Dust-triggered attack on a kedan, he'd been given a combination of jail time, penalty fines, and proposed 'community service' when the time served was up. He had not accepted the ruling lightly, which had nearly resulted in a much larger conflict than the singular initial assault.

It had been resolved, at least to the point that no one else had ended up injured (although it had been close, when one of the KPD officers had tried to insist that removing all personal effects to be stored included the Ring.)

Most of the time he feigns sleep, though more for not being interested in talking to any of the others in adjacent cells. Sometimes Diabound is present as well, coiled on the cot as a form of distraction.

B. BAKURA - Post Release - STARTER PENDING

To be added later in the month...

C. ELIZABETH - All Sectors

Since she'd joined the Guild of Justice and Arbitration, Elizabeth seemed determined to be an ideal member. That meant that she was going around to various places in the city, introducing herself and asking if there was anything that the GJA could do for people. Some people seemed approving that she'd moved outside the Foreigners Guild, while others were indifferent.

"Are you sure there's nothing you can think of? Every idea is an idea worth hearing, I've always thought."

D. ELIZABETH - Greenhouses

The damage done to the greenhouse crops and more importantly everyone's hard work had stoked an indignant fire in Elizabeth, and when she wasn't on deliveries for the Midnight Hotel, she could be found working to help get things back on track at any of the hydroponics sites. At the moment, she was wrestling with a gunk-covered drainage mechanism, which would need to be fully disassembled and cleaned before it could be used again. The messy work clashes with her usual neatly pressed outfit, and yet she looks like she's barely noticing that she's gotten covered in mud.

"Aha, got it! Now, let's see how this comes apart..."

E. WILDCARD

Hit me with anything that doesn't fit in the above starters!

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Aside from escorting Bakura to the Arbitrator's people, Valdis had stayed away from the sentencing and imprisonment, though she knew every detail of it, including how one of her officers had tried to take the Ring after she had told him to leave it. But it didn't matter now. She didn't have any real reason to visit Bakura, she definitely wasn't going to apologize, but she still felt badly for the circumstances that led to this mess.

The jail wasn't horrible, but it wasn't supposed to be a pleasant place either, and Valdis didn't enjoy going down the rows. The emotions were high. Anger, fear, sadness. She passed each cell, ignoring the occupants until she reached the one where Bakura pretended to sleep.

"You aren't fooling anyone, you know." She commented, "Your breathing isn't deep enough to actually mimic sleep."

The guard knocked on the bars loudly to announce that Bakura had a visitor, which made Sonja cringe.

She clutched a bag to her chest nervously, filled with an assortment of dried fruits and meats which had been thoroughly inspected. A largely pointless gesture in her opinion, since she was pretty sure Bakura was here voluntarily based on the powers he could wield.

The winged snake is strange but kind of cute.

"Hi, Bakura. How are you doing?"

Eliyen had been interested in Bakura's case, as it had been the first attack by a Foreigner on a kedan. It had come in while she'd been speaking with Valdis, who had obviously been severely shaken by the news.

Clearly, the answer was to go meet the man himself.

She stopped by the cell he was in and eyed the winged snake. That was interesting. She'd have to bring that up. "Mr. Bakura," she said, and waited to see if he would acknowledge her.

Pepper had been more than a little distracted since Bakura was poisoned, and had been keeping a close eye on the situation as it progressed. It was all different kinds of not fun, watching someone she cared so deeply about be subject to the system she was supposed to guard and enforce. This wasn't right.

It wasn't hard to get in for a visit, and she'd even sweet-talked a guard (read: talked their ears off to the point of agreeing with her just to make her stop) into letting her bring him a few small things.

"Hey," Pepper said quietly, curling her fingers around one of the cross-piece bars. She hesitated for a moment. "This is the part where I'd usually make a joke, but I can't think of anything that doesn't end up sounding awful."

Sheena had heard about Bakura's arrest and what had led up to it, and she still felt it unfair. Those feelings, however, took a back seat as she entered the jail to visit the man. While they weren't the closest of friends, she still felt concerned about him and what had happened.

Coming up to the cell, she waited in silence as the guard walked away. Seeing Diabound, the ninja guessed Bakura was still awake--unless he had the ability to Summon while unconscious. Well, only one way to find out.

"Hey. Are you two all right?"

She meant in all aspects--not just physically.

Word got around, and by the time the news reached Zatanna, Bakura had already been imprisoned. She reacted with the usual mixture of surprise and disbelief, along with a healthy sense of skepticism. She might not have known Bakura as well as others, but she'd like to think she knew him well enough to state that such an attack was way out of character for him. Something was up.

Of course, before she could go around vocalizing her opinions, there was one thing she needed to do first: stop by the prison.

He was still when she approached the cell. Quiet enough just in case he really was sleeping, so as not to disturb him, but audible enough for him to recognize her nearby presence in case he wasn't. It was his decision whether he wanted to acknowledge her or not if that were the case.

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A; because jail visits make the best date night

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A - (so popular, Bakura)