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[code]South Side, Circle Neighbourhood, David Smith’s Home[/code][/right][hr]
[color=51684c]”[i]Huh?[/i]”[/color] Vin turned around to face the far too smiley, squeaky intruder instead of the door they’d just destroyed. Their head tilted in confusion. What the fuck? Didn’t most people round these parts mind their business? Vin certainly had growing up. [color=51684c]”Who the fuck are you?”[/color]

It was annoying. It would be so easy to just get rid of her… But as much as it frustrated them, one thing that Gideon had beaten into Vin’s head (sometimes literally) was not hurting innocents. These were the people they protected. Sure, plenty of South Siders also needed a good beating, but only on the bosses orders. This was just an overly nosey woman. An incredibly annoying, pushy woman with a voice that felt like something was grating Vin’s extra sensitive ears.

Who could see that he was a tiger. 

Paloma would feel a similar sensation to what Vin had felt just moments before - a light brush across her emotional field, almost unnoticeable. Except Vin's apparition detection wasn’t blocked by it - they could detect the apparition inside her. Or, at least, that there was one. That hadn't bothered developing the spell past simple detection. But going by the way she was acting overly friendly and anti-violence, she was probably Adjoined. Not something they had to deal with.

They took a deep breath to push down the annoyance, all the energy that had been bubbling up at the prospect of a fight begging to be released. But they couldn’t. So they focused on removing all of those feelings - pure apathy. Of course, it didn’t work, but it stopped them from taking a swipe at her and losing their job.

[color=51684c]”Look, lady, if y’know what’s good for you, you’ll take your cupcake and head right back down the street. I ain’t playin’ around here. The boss’ll be pissed if he finds we let you in- and we don’t want that.”[/color] Vin knew that they’d never hear the end of it if they just let some woman waltz into a place which [i]definitely[/i] had a dangerous Apparition in it. And if she died? They’d be in some deep shit. They frowned, glaring down at her without much thought of how intimidating they looked right now. [color=51684c]"Don’t try gettin’ them to stop me, they ain’t just here to look pretty y’know… It ain't safe here. You can talk to him [I]after[/I] we're done, assumin' he's still alive."[/color] 

Vin meant because of the Apparition, of course - he wasn't sure if David was even alive right now. They didn't think about how it could come across as them planning to kill him...

And she was threatening to scream. Vin's expression got much worse. Their lips pulled back to reveal sharp teeth in a grimace. They didn't want to deal with that... There was an annoying number of One-Eye Open freaks who saw someone like them and went fucking crazy. It was like Cloverfield was crawling with were-animal fetishists. A shiver went down their spine just remembering the last time.

Rather than stepping side, then stepped backwards onto the now destroyed door. There was a hint of paranoia in their yellow cat eyes as they darted around, waiting for some freak to crawl out from the ground and try jump them. 

[color=51684c]”Listen, miss, this ain't some fuckin' exhibitionist shit. Y’know how expensive enchanted clothes are? I ain't doing that shit on every outfit- why the fuck am I even explaining this? Do not fuckin’ scream. It’ll alert it. You stay outta this or you’ll regret it.”[/color]