[Video] un: spanglethesestars

[ukase]

[Rumlow has his set-up casual, his feet up on the table, and there's a toothpick sticking out the left side of his mouth. He's clearly sitting with two feet of the chair off the ground, but more predominant might be the healed burn scars that mark the left side of his face but particularly around his eyes. Much of the burns has clearly healed (miracle of pod life), but there is enough there to speak of previous considerable damage. His hair looks great though.]

New here. You don't care, and that's great. I'm looking for information on one subject in particular, so I won't waste time with semantics.

I need information on dragons. Specifically anatomy and how to kill them. I've got a wager with my future wife where she wants me to be the knight in shining armor and slay a dragon, but aside from the komodo kind, we don't have dragons where I'm from.

[He picks the toothpick from his mouth, twirling it in his fingers.]

Sure hope these ones taste like chicken though.

[He winks at the camera, offering a charming grin. Oh right, he wants to name drop because he knows it will annoy the person in question to the maximum degree.]

Also, if anyone knows Jessica Jones. Hit me up.

[He offers a mock little salute and the video ends.]

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video; un: vorkosigan

[dendarii]

[ This gray-eyed fellow with a squashed face eyes Rumlow thoughtfully over the feed. ]

Do you believe yourself capable of killing a dragon?

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[ukase]

[Well, there are worse people in this world. He doesn't judge much.]

Anything is possible with the right research, right equipment, and right team. Hence why I'm doing public recon.

video; un: eproghuefgdzptrrw

[vorrutyer]

Dear heavens. Please tell me the concept of your future wife and Jessica Jones aren't somehow linked.

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[ukase]

[What can he say in defense? He's never been a romantic, and all of this is actually to get a rise out of her.]

Well, she practically proposed to me, so who am I to deny her acidic request for martial bliss?

[dendarii]

[ Miles nods at that, tapping lightly at the side of his face. ]

A professional, then.

[ukase]

[He hopes that's some kind of sign because otherwise he's going to assume that's a strange ocd tick.]

I didn't get these scars over a barbecue on a hot summer's day.

Video -|- un: nunya

[assholic]

[Well, he's already got her name, so if he really wants to track her down, it's not going to be that hard.

... Goddammit.

Which is why he'll get a video of an annoyed looking pale black-haired woman, scowling at him like she doesn't own another facial expression.]

Are you fucking kidding me right now? Are you high?

[dendarii]

[ He's just thinking, mostly. But hey, it helped answer a question he'd had. ]

I expect not. What did happen, if I may ask?

[ukase]

[Think out loud, kid. Think out loud.]

Just before the Storm ate the little I had left.

[vorrutyer]

[ With a laugh, he says fondly - ]

She's going to destroy you.

[dendarii]

[ A blink. ]

The little you had left of your face?

[ukase]

[They had previously conversed (threatened) over text, but he has no reason to hide at this point, nothing to actually lose in his books. He has her name, but she can't say the same about him.

At least he can see the complete package that he's dealing with now. Plus one already.

He grins at her, slipping the toothpick back into the side of his mouth.]

Drugs are bad Mrs. Wallace told me when I was a wee lad. So no, not high. You're even more spicy looking than I imagined.

[ukase]

God I hope so. She told me it'd be with her bare hands, so looking forward to that.

[He'll just go out of his way to see how far he can push her first.]

[ukase]

[He rolls his eyes slightly.]

Yeah, let's go with that. It might be a strain to get too deep. You got information on dragons, or are you just wasting my time?

[assholic]

[That earns him a noise of disgust, and she silently vows never to play on the network while drunk again. Ever. Not even if there's a fire.]

Look, Freddy, our little chat was fun and all, but you're more than deluded if you think I'm not going to actually backhand you to the literal moon if you show up at my door with a dead dragon dick.

[dendarii]

[ Miles' expression flattens slightly. ]

I've no information on dragons, no. But I was considering whether to offer you a job.

[ukase]

[He snorts at her as if everything she says is just plain silly]

Please, what kind of uncouth heathen do you take me for? It will be cooked first. I don't want to die from whatever weird Salmonella equivalent they have here.

[ukase]

[He shrugs his shoulders.]

I'm a straight-shooter. [Lies.] You want to offer me a job, out with it. You don't, hurry along. I'm good at what I do.

[assholic]

[She was not drunk enough for this. Where was her bott-- there it was.]

Do I really need to point out that I was joking? Though, hey, if you want the entire city screaming for your blood, go for it. Then I won't have to lift a finger.

[dendarii]

I'm after a bodyguard. That necessarily comes with a few questions.

[ukase]

[So she's a drinker. That actually explains some of the details of their conversation.]

You didn't text like you were joking. People put 'jk' at the end, so I took you seriously, and now I'm all heart broken.

[He sighs dramatically, and he does an incredible chestfallen expression a moment later.]

First woman to ever threaten to crush me up and throw me in a dumpster. My life has no meaning.

[He smirks again and lifts his hands for emphasis.]

Just kiddin'. See, that's how it's done, doll.

[ukase]

[Color him curious for a second or two.]

For a job like that, the only questions I need answering is where we are going, who I'm protecting you from and payment. Otherwise, the whys don't mean anything to me.

[vorrutyer]

Aren't you a little masochist. She told me she doesn't do that sort of thing, alas.

[assholic]

Oh, I wasn't kidding about the hurting you beyond recognition thing. Just about you having Frosty's nutsack's chance in hell of a shot with me. I'm not into crazy. Been there, done that.

[ukase]

I'm about 5'11" of it. Are you her bff or the competition?