You have to prepare for a fight

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Characters: Kallen and anyone who feels like running into her.
Format: Action or prose, it's your choice!
This log is: Open
Location: Dining hall (before, during, and after)
Summary: After training with Huashi and Kotarou, Kallen decides it's a good idea to eat. Although uh... she decides to pick up a sandwich and can't remember how to eat it.
Warnings: N/A

It's just been a long... a very long day for Kallen. First, she was announced as a Player, then Gino almost damn near passed out on her, and for the finish, training with Huashi mainly so she could get used to the girl's weapon. Kallen had some time ahead of her so she wanted to be prepared. The next day she would spend some time watching some of the other fights.

Kallen looked up at the sky and the sun was fading into the background. She made the decision to head to the dining hall to grab something to eat. She made a mindless choice and picked up a sandwich. Sitting down at a near by table, she stared at her plate and at her food.

Just how was she supposed to eat this?

Comments

/hurls mei at you with the power of a billion suns

[idkmybffxiao]

Unbeknown to Kallen, she had a stalker.

It would remain unbeknown for about nine point eight more seconds. After that, Mei stopped being sneaky. How she had gotten to the other side of the table without being spotted, the world may never be certain, but the little girl has gone from lurking around after Kallen to peering at the confused teenager from just over the edge of the table. Only the top of her head down to her eyes are visible.

Watching her puzzle over the sandwich.

Eyes narrowed in suspicion.

Why would Gino choose to be this girl's weapon instead of Grenn's? Was this the woman that showed up in endless stories to ruin epic bromances? That happened a lot in stories. Or maybe she was the evil witch who stole the princess knight or a trickster who tricked Gino into agreeing or what if she was Gino's real princess and he was sworn to protect her only it was reversed now thanks to Exaclan but--

The possibilities were endless and Mei would go over each and every one in that short span of time between tracking Kallen down to the dining hall and revealing her presence.

/BLOCKS

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Kallen sighed as she looked at the food in front of her. This was one of her favorite foods. But did she seriously forget how to eat it?

At the end of her sigh, she kept her eyes on the table. Something was wrong with the situation and she didn't mean the sandwich. There was something following her. Kallen wouldn't say it was unnoticed cause she knew. She was just wondering why a child was stalking her. So she just ignored the girl.... until now.

"Are you just going to keep staring at me?" She questioned out loud, pushing away the sandwich. But it was pretty obviously who she was talking to.

/DEFLECTED AAAAA ;A;

[idkmybffxiao]

Maybe someone should tell Mei to wear less pink the next time she went out stalking.

Would she keep staring at her? The answer was NO! She would not! Mei was a girl of ACTION! Which was demonstrated as part of the reply to Kallen's question. She disappeared from sight for a second before leaping right up onto the tabletop. WHOOSH and maybe some tense background music were the sound effects accompanying this confrontation. Uh. In her imagination, that is.

"I need to know! Why would Gino abandon his friends to be your Weapon? Are you blackmailing him?! If you are, you'd better be prepared for a real fight!"

...said the extremely tiny girl to the terrorist Knightmare pilot.

/FIGHTING POSE

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This is some joke right?

"And why would I be inclined to tell you anything?" Kallen said, looking at the girl. It was more of an annoyed glare than anything. It's been a really long day for Kallen and she just wanted to eat. Perhaps she should have added 'in peace'.

/KICKS OFF DA WALL LIKE A NINJA B|

[idkmybffxiao]

No joke. Mei was three hundred and eighty percent serious.

She leveled an accusing finger at Kallen. "Because if you won't answer my question, you must be hiding something sinister!" Ooor the other girl just didn't want to get bossed around by a loudmouthed brat, but that thought hadn't even factored into any of Mei's bazillion scenarios.

/EVADES

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Eye roll. "Look, I don't know who you are but I'd like to eat my dinner in peace. Not having wild accusations while thrown in my face."

Ignoring the child, Kallen continued to look at her food, trying to consider how to tackle this great feat.

/KUNG FU HAIR PULL?

[idkmybffxiao]

Ignored? Ignored! Mei Chang had an issue with being ignored. She walked across the table and plopped down to sit directly in front of Kallen, leaving only enough room between them for the sandwich to remain happily unsquished. Tiny child invading space technique was go.

"I am Mei Chang, Seventeenth Princess of the Empire, and they wouldn't be wild if you would just answer the question."

There. That covered the 'who you are' query, right? Yeah. She seriously needed to start making sure 'Xing' was somewhere next to 'Empire' in those kind of statements, but everyone so far had failed to mention the handful of similarities to a totally different empire.

what are you? five?

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FACEPALM

The title didn't mean anything to Kallen, but this little girl was serious it seemed. "For starters, it's not exactly polite to sit on a table when someone is trying to eat. And if you're acting civil and stop acting like this is an interrogation, I'd be more inclined to answer you."

pretty much yeah

[idkmybffxiao]

The title usually got some sort of reaction! Alright. Mei could see this Kallen chick was a tough cookie. Clearly not one to be intimidated. The lack of intimidation couldn't possibly have anything to do with the kid being about as intimidating as a flea. Really. She means it.

Mei glared a bit, then grumbled and hopped back up to her feet. She walked back to the other side, stepped down onto a seat, and whirled back around. She sat. THERE.

"I am sorry to bother you," the girl deadpanned, "But I would like to know why Gino picked you over Grenn."

RETURN OF THE TEAL DEER.

[warpwhatsir]

Here's a fact about Sulu you may or may not know, Kallen: he doesn't like to let thing stay unfinished.

So when he catches sight of her sitting at the table, staring at her sandwich with all the intensity of a hawk, he bites his lip for a moment, contemplating, before setting his shoulders and making his way over. He's got a salad, himself, and seeing her clearly having some sort of cosmic issue with her lunch is at least a conversation starter.

Another fact: He's having a hard time trying not to be immensely awkward. Handholding aside, there's still that little "I apparently saw you with your shirt off, ha ha will you look at that" memory that likes to pop itself up. He knows it's not real--he knows--but a guy doesn't just forget that kind of thing. But if anything, he wants a professional relationship. Really.

He plops himself down with all the inane grace of a rebellious teenager and says, in the calmest voice he can muster, "Hey." He's done with the avoiding, okay.

\o/!!!

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Kallen almost jumped at the movement, clearly all of her attention was on that sandwich. But when she looked up and saw Sulu, she cast her glance in the other direction.

Believe her, she wanted this. She wanted to speak to him again, she hated them not talking. But-- now was just a bad time. They were both Players, possibly soon to face each other with Kallen's promise dangling in the air. Not to mention the memory of them holding hands pops back into her head.

She nodded and mumbled out a 'hey' of her own. Eye locked on that sandwich though. You have to forgive her for tat.

[warpwhatsir]

This won't do. Sulu's fully aware that them both being Players means that they'll have to fight should they both win their other matches. And he'll have to break his promise. Honestly, he's not sure how he feels about this. Sherlock's his partner this round, maybe he can convince him...

"What are you doing?" he asks curiously, breaking through his own thoughts. "It's not going to bite you." Well. It could. But he highly doubts that'll happen in this time period. Sulu leans forward in his seat, chest against the lip of the table.

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"I just--" She looked up to meet his gaze and then set her eyes on her sandwich. "I can't... remember how to eat it. This... is really stupid isn't it?"

[warpwhatsir]

Something close to a blush settles across his cheeks even though he very clearly fights that. His eyes flick down for a moment, below the table, before they flick back up and he swallows, just barely.

"Oh." A pause. "No. That's not stupid at all."

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She gave him a questioning look... not only to the blush but to his rebuttal. "What makes you say that?"

[warpwhatsir]

"Uh." He leans forward a little again. "Do you... you remember when you said we couldn't remember certain things?" His mouth twitches up into a little, self-deprecating smirk and swivels around in his seat, feet held out. He's wearing socks, his toes poking out from the hem of his pants...

But no shoes.

Nope, those are in his bag. Earlier in the morning he'd gotten frustrated and just stopped trying to put them on, preferring the awkward stares over the hours that could be wasted trying to negotiate with the damn things. Hikaru Sulu does not give up, though, no sir. He just. Delays.

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She head jerked back in surprised for a moment. She had forgotten how to eat a sandwich while he forgot how to put on shoes... or something like that. "I see..."

Kallen sighed. All this tension between them was just silly. She laughed for a moment. "Would you like some help?"

[brokencrane]

[Yuka is over at the next table, drinking tea and vaguely flipping through a textbook. she does, however, note that you seem to be having problems with your sandwich, and she is going to keep looking up at you occasionally, wondering if she should say something.]

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[Kallen catches that and looks in the other girl's direction.]

Something wrong?

[brokencrane]

[erk] A-Ah, no! I was just, um, wondering...

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About?

[brokencrane]

[wonders how to say this without sounding totally rude. unfortunately it's too late to stop talking now.] ...Is there something wrong with your sandwich?

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That obviously huh...

[She slides her hand on the front of her face, still in disbelief that well, she can't remember.]

It's not that there's anything wrong with it... but I can't remember how to eat it. Guess it's one of my lost memories.

[brokencrane]

Oh, I see... [Yuka is suddenly very relieved that nothing she forgot was quite so...silly.] That's not a nice memory for them to make you lose. It's just mean.

[queenscheckmate]

It's not the only one. [But Kallen wouldn't mention that she forgot how to put on a bra.] But at least I was able to figure it out. They don't exactly care if they're nice or not.