text; un:mako; with bonus ruby

[arclightning]

Attention Trench:
1. If you need a safe place to go with less pollution, the safehouses are up and running. I put a map here. They have masks to filter the air and most of them have incense.
2. If you have spare incense, the safehouses could use more. Also, non-perishable food.
3. Wear a mask. Seriously. Yes, all the time.
—Mako

4. If you end up encountering any of those weird cultist people. I'm going to teach you my Uncle Qrow's method of escaping an encounter like this. It might not prevent you from getting kidnapped but it'll help you fight them off with weird psych out Mistral violence.

Just chew up one of these mushrooms that I found that makes you foam at the mouth—it'll make them think you have rabies and throw them off their rhythm. Then you grab a telephone book and beat them on the torso with it. Because as any cop will tell you, phonebooks don't leave bruises.
—You're Pal, Ruby Rose

[ Attached at the end of the post is a map with safehouses marked in each district. One is the Raccoon Room, anyone who's volunteered their house will be on there, and several are out in the farmlands beyond Trench itself. One is in the woods.

Edited in a minute later: ]

Don't listen to Ruby. No cop will tell you that. Phonebooks definitely leave bruises.
—Mako

((ooc: both Mako & Ruby will be responding! action prompt in the comments for anyone interested. ))

Comments

[pabugotmoves]

Wait

I'm confused. You're witch what?

[entreats]

[ Oh god, Ange thinks she's realising the problem. ]

Bolin.

Do they not have the concept of witches in your world?

[onekindsoul]

She's a sandwitch.

[Helping???????]

[pabugotmoves]

Is that like a sandbender? Witch what is a sandbender? Ange?

[entreats]

[ Ruby is banned from cuddles tonight. ]

She's joking.

Imagine a bender, but one that could bend anything. Bending light. Bending cake into existence out of nowhere. Bending people into frogs. That's a witch.

[onekindsoul]

I'm not!

She's really like a triple decker sandwich with everything on it.

She can do anything.

[pabugotmoves]

[Bolin gives this quite a lot of thought before he answers. They're having fun but this is genuinely new information for him and the implications are huge.]

The only person back home who even comes close to what you've described is The Avatar and if Korra could bend cake into existence I would know about it.

Ange I had no idea you were so powerful.

Is this normal where your from? This witch? It's called witch or witches?

[entreats]

Witch. Witches is plural, because there's more than one of them. I'm not even the only one in this place. [ By a long shot.. ]

Not a whole lot of people know about it where I come from, but it's pretty normal to me by now. I mean, I got my powers from my aunt on her deathbed, who got them from an ancient witch.

So. You know. I'm used to it by now.

[ Totally normal. ]

[pabugotmoves]

wow

[He's in genuine awe over here.]

You're really something, you know that? That's incredible.

[onekindsoul]

That is what I have been telling her this whole time.

[entreats]

[ Oh god, this is the last thing Ange expected this conversation to drive off towards. She can feel the embarrassment creeping up on her. ]

Don't be so odd about it, you two. It's nothing all that special. Pretty much anyone in this place has some sort of power. Why would that make mine so great?

[onekindsoul]

Um because they're your powers?
And you're like the coolest most awesome person around here.
So obviously we have to make a big deal about your powers.

[entreats]

I smell some bias here.

Scratch that. A lot of bias.

[onekindsoul]

...Are you implying I should stop?

[entreats]

I know you.

You will never stop.

[onekindsoul]

You say it like it's a bad thing.

[entreats]

It is when it's in front of everyone else!!

[ P-Please, Ruby, don't let other people in on their private mushy time! ]

[onekindsoul]

And yet the conversation hasn't been switched over to private yet!

[She is onto you Ange, she is onto you!]

private;

[entreats]

[ ARGGGH.

RUBY ROOOOOOSE!!

Ange's literal only saving grace here is the fact that she does manage to switch it over to private before adding: ]

It's because you're so cute and distracting that I forgot, you big dummy!!! [ How DARE RUBY be this cute!! Making her lose all of her logical senses! Stupid cute Ruby!! ]

[onekindsoul]

YEAH BUT I'M YOUR BIG CUTE DUMMY!
FOREVER!!!!!!

[entreats]

I hate that you know this.

You've gained entirely too much power.

[onekindsoul]

I'm sorry you've been put in this situation.
But I am practically unstoppable.