Skye and Laura
The instrument's strings soothed the Highland lady, the sight of Tylar coming in not stopping her, only allowing her to continue playing, a certain confidence in her instrument not affected by the sight of the buff, moving mountain of the team's railgun-carrying heavy.
@Laser KiwiSkye remembred picking out Tylar, knowing her psych-eval, knowing what she had come from. The clearance never fully uncovered everything, but Skye knew enough about the programme she had come out of, the creation that CIA affilated team had come through with. No doubt it left some scars on her mentally, and despite her capabilities, there was an element Skye could see she was trying to piece together and grow out of. Like she'd been left as a teenager and grown up, yet not had the emotional complexity and whirlwind that came with finding a flow. It was something she hoped this environment might foster, because her capability in the field was second to none.
Skye stopped playing her fiddle once she finished the piece, by which point the team's railgun-carrying heavy had gotten herself some food, and plenty of it. Giants always seemed to have a relatively bottomless gut, well, apart from Laura, Skye reasoned. She had a black hole for one.
"Thank you! It's a song about home, just an old Gaelic song. Just a little ditty, a friend taught me it when we were younger. I donnae play it much, but it's 'no bad from time to time." Skye softly replied, a wry smirk coming out, her cheeks almost as rose-coloured as her hair, as she gently placed the instrument down, pouring the rest of the glass of the Whisky, crossing her legs over. The rest of the team could be heard on their way, and Skye turned to them.
@BigPapaBelialBan had come in while she was playing. The Japanese operative was one that well, divided the crowd. Most intelligence people didn't rate gangsters, criminals or thugs much but Skye knew the code that the Yakuza followed, the sacrafices that were involved were serious- and then the list of the things Ban had done. Ban was an indvidual who possessed talent at killing people, a dark link to an underworld. And he'd suffered for it. The augmentations in his body, let alone the plethoras of tattoos pointed to an indvidual willing to give himself in to a greater cause. Perhaps he had that here to give when his old family left him.
Shit, the way Skye sounded, she seemed to be taking plenty of those in Raven. Though it did make you think, girl without a dad trying to create a team, made up of misfits and people from all over? It seemed oddly like a parallel. Nobody had ever said that, but Skye internally knew how it would look if someone smart enough were to piece it up. They all seemed to have scars, or something with them. Perhaps it was because Skye recognised talent others didn't. Skills and process that others didn't understand. And to fight an odd force you needed odd people. Or....well, you picked the best at what they did, no matter what?
Howard Davis though, he was a legend. A member of the team before Raven, a sniper, hunter and all around Native outdoorsman who seemed at one with nature. The person she wanted back, and getting him was difficult. But worth it, none the less, the confused guards who manned the motor pool confused and puzzled by Howard's disappearance. The greatest game of hide and seek ended when Howard appeared from nowhere, right at the kitchen counter, silently moving inside at the corner of Skye's vision, one she kept wide knowing almost in a game-like fashion would happen.
"Interesting distraction. You baited them with noise and they ran out when they should have been looking right in front of them at the other door. The good old slight of hand trick." Skye merely retorted, smart enough to pick it up while the guards were puzzled. It had kept her alive on many occasion. But then again, Skye knew her operatives. And just what they were capable of.
"Still, would have fooled me." She wryly smirked, hearing Su-Chong follow in.
@VeyrinDayThe other light member of the team, Su-Chong was similar to Ban in some ways, the background as a crook, but then a soldier. A similarly capable girl, Skye knew the Asian-American's past was a tough one, it made her capable in being silent and doing wetwork but it also led to some pretty horrific stuff. Skye had been in that position once, but the torture that Su-Cheong must have gone through sounded like agony in comparsion. A living hell, but she was here. Fighting on. Skye picked her horses for a reason, because they found another gear when they were pushed past the breaking point. Her question was pertient, as she set herself up, Skye chuckling in response.
"That's what our logistics people do. And me, actually. The 4am routine of that versus swimming for me changed lately. Shit, I suppose I'm gettin' soft, or something..." Skye chuckled, as looking to the ponytailed operative, knowing that as many questions as Su-Cheong had, always wanting to validate the authority, Skye knew she would deliver. It was her job, after all.
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Last for now but not least, Laura Zeiss, that was one Skye always knew was a wildchild. A giantess in the sense that even next to Tylar and Oliver, she towered and coupled to her mass, it just made her look like an absolute crane of a human being.
She was also fucking crazy.
"Mein gott, is that whisky I smell? Skye, are you treating us?"Laura sounded almost like an overexcited labrador, waltzing over, the big girl literally running all that mass over onto one of the beanbags, comedically coming down like a pallet of bricks had fell on the thing. How it didn't explode with the foam balls going everywhere was beyond anyone, Skye guessing her spec sheet for "resilient materials" had made it through when asking how the lounge might need to be setup. She sighed, brushing her hair aside from her face, sitting up and looking up everyone, excitable as ever, aware Su-Cheong had walked past while she was in the gym.
"For a job well done. Grab yourselves a glass everyone. It's well deserved. You all did a good job, thanks to what you did, we avoided a serious geopolitical shitstorm. For a moment. Let's not get bogged down in details though....let's just enjoy this for now!" Skye replied, then addressing the rest of the team, aware there were a couple more that would come soon, and letting them drop in before they all could all go through the bottle.
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