Walk in the Dark [Los]

[Cas]

Again she found herself in the graveyard. Probably the one place she needed to stop finding herself. But the woman couldn’t seem to help going there and looking over the grave markers of those that she had seen fall and those she had investigated. Always she went to the funerals, mostly on invites from the families, sometimes just because .she knew many of the names carved into the stone slabs and hated it. Yes she kenw what job she had signed up for but that didn’t make it any better. Sighing she took a seat on the ground in front of a stone. One she put flowers at every other week. The name was Thomas Kizer. The twin brother to her long time friend. He had been a light element, odd one out in a family of electric. But he had treated her as a sister and she loved him as a brother much as she did Zach. “Hey Thomas.” She said with a soft smile. “Sorry it’s been a few days. The cases are running me down.” She told him about the serial murders that had begun happening. They weren’t on elementals like the other chain of murders she was investigating. Her partner was beginning to worry about her some, she could tell. “I think dad is worried too. Can’t seem to wait till Zach comes in to town.” Cas gave a small chuckle and didn’t say anything for a few minutes. Her thoughts had drifted to ach. “You’d be proud of him.” She finally said knowing that Zach took the profession his brother had wanted to do. Zach had wanted to be a doctor but loved his brother so lived his dream. He was bright enough to doeither jobs. She fell silent again, no longer wanting to talk to her friend’s spirit. The sun was setting in the west and it made the sky red.

Laying back Cas watched as the sky’s shades changed. Off to the east it still held the shades of blue and as it moved west it turned to light shades of purple and then darker till maroon then red followed to the golden orange. Twilight was the best time to watch the moods of the sky. The detective sighed and shut her vibrant yellow eyes blocking out the light. The days were wearing her out. She loved her job but these murders were on a roll so to say. Opening her eyes she watched clouds slowly move with the soft soaring winds. “Get it together Spinner.” She said and stood up looking down she smiled to Thomas. “I’ll be back soon.” She said and turned to her right beginning to head back to the gates. She hadn’t driven today but she hadn’t thought she would be there for hours. Was beginning to regret not driving. Weaving her way through the stones she cursed as she kicked a low marking. It was steadily getting darker, where she wasn’t wasn’t worried about being lost, seeing all the grave markers at night was difficult. Since her run in a few weeks ago she had stopped using her electrical power here. It was too open, far too open. Cas wound her way and thought she spotted one of her markers to let her know she was going correctly through the massive hallowed grounds. The Kizers had placed Thomas towards the very back along with his ancestors that were placed before him. But getting closwer she didn’t find the angel that marked halfway. It was the Gargoyle that marked she had gone too far east. By now the sky was covered in darkness. “Just great.” She growled and started to back track. “Good think I don’t work tonight.” It was then that her phone rang. Cursing again she pulled it from her pocket and saw it was an unknown number.

“Spinner.” She said answering the call. “You sound just like your father.” The voice on the other end was male and made her almost drop the phone. “Zach?” Cas asked stopping in her tracks. “Hey Sparky.” His voice changed slightly. “Thought I’d let you know I was in town. See you soon.” With that he hung up. She pulled the phone from her ear and stared at it. The elemental was in a state of shock. Other then letters she hadn’t heard from him and now he had called. Starting her trek again the electric was dazed. Walking, just making sure to put one foot in front of the other she almost missed when she reached the angel that looked down towards the ground. The watcher and protector. But she kept going, headed for the gates and then maybe the station tracking down that number. It wasn’t until she ran into a stone she ame back to her mind. Looking around the woman felt foolish. Not paying attention to her surroundings was stupid and foolish on so many levels. “Get yourself killed.” She chastised and continued to the gates. Looking around she couldn’t see anyone in the darkened area. Sparks flew from her fingers with a snap. She was edgy. Raising both hands she snapped her fingers again and lightning flew to her palm on the other. It bounced back to her right palm and she seemed to be holding lightning in her hand. Finally the sparks went down to be eaten by the ground. Her night vision was screwed but the gates loomed in front of her. Going to the other side of the wall she leaned against it blinking her eyes. The street was deserted but no one seemed to notice her other then the usual glances. They hadn’t seen her release the electricity which was good. The elemental was taking unneeded risks. Not so smart. Getting away from the wall she went over to stand in the circle of light from a lone street lamp. This was the way home after all, well home to the station.

[Losvaise]

Los wandered lazily about the streets of a relatively unused part of Sion. If he were to know how to get to and from every part of the city at a moments notice, he would definitely need to explore virtually every part. Buildings towered above him on either side, empty, giving him an almost solemn feeling. This was undoubtedly a good place to hide, but then again, what place in this city wasn't?
He passed a shady looking character on the other side of the street, and felt a change in the direction of the wind. He looked to his left and saw an alley way. He began to turn and looked over his shoulder. The passerby was also looking over their shoulder. Los took out his glasses and put them on, despite the darkening of the sky. Whoever it was was not an elemental. The person then turned around and continued on his was, and Los put away his glasses and resumed his march. One could really not be too careful in these parts. He scanned the buildings once more before going down the alley.

Los had not been in the city for very long, but he already knew about the general feeling of paranoia held by the populace. Some unfortunate person lie on a cardboard box, preparing to sleep for the night. Los almost began to stare as he passed and locked eyes with the downtrodden individual. This was some man, perhaps in his 40's, with a story, as with everyone. But his face was obscured, muted against the gray background of the city. He could have gone through anything and no one would care, or possibly have been a war hero gone missing, but it didn't matter now. Los' mind flashed back to his childhood, seeing people with their faces obscured against the sand dunes. There was no difference, no one took interest in them as no one takes real interest in this man. Perhaps he would drag himself off the floor and try again, but it didn't matter. Los didn't have the funds to bring every homeless person in this city out of the dregs.

So he continued on, and emerged from the alley into a street. Almost as if some scanner had picked up his presence, the street light in front of him turned on and illuminated a bench. This bench may have been the only stable one left in this part of town and Los was about to enjoy every part of what was left. He began to take a step out when a small spark to the right caught his eye. He took a step back into the alleyway and shadows to peer out. It had come from a person down the street a ways. He quickly held up his glasses as they registered a lightning elemental, some 20 meters away. This was obviously a rare occurrence, as their numbers are very limited. Generally they were "kill on sight" targets, but Los could really care less. He cared about elemental genocide about as much as a bug cared about the moon.

The elemental could not have known about him yet, so nothing was likely to come out of this. With a battle mostly ruled out, he strode to the bench and sat down to consider his way home. He stole one more glance in the direction of the elemental and placed his glasses carefully into his coat pocket. The bench was cold and cement, very simple, but strangely comfortable. He leaned forward slightly then looked at the sky to watch the remnants of the day slip away.

[Cas]

(sorry for the wait and that it's not that long =/)


A man emerged from an alley way up the road from her. She wasn’t sure how long he had been standing there but the way he glanced at her made her think he had seen her. She didn’t recognize him and from the way his body felt he was human. Though that didn’t always mean much for this city. There were those out there that hunted elementals, the great war that had always been going on. But Cas just continued on her way. There was no reason to get worked up even with the murders going on to elementals. The whole reason she had met up with Zelena all those days ago. There hadn’t been another since but that didn’t mean there wasn’t going to be another. Sighing Cas stopped and rubbed her eyes leaning against the wall of a building again. She was getting too worn out lately. Not sleeping well did that of course though. Shaking her head she glanced up at the sky and watched as the sun finished dropping. “Yes time for the boogey man to come out and play.” She said to herself though she knew she was in ear shot of the human sitting on the bench.

Turning she kept on the way she was going and glancing sideways at the man as she walked by on the other side of the street the electric didn’t notice the missing cement square in the sidewalk and tripped landing on her knees and palms on the ground. Dirt coated her pants and hands and she cursed. Shaking her head she sighed and stood back up. She was beginning to think that going back to the station might not be the best idea. She was already so tired and this just proved it. Glancing up and down the road she decided to cross it and sit on the bench. Yes it was next to a stranger but it wasn’t like she couldn’t take care of herself if it came to a fight. Granted she really hoped it didn’t as the elemental was already feeling the strain of her lack of sleep over the last few days. Sitting on the only bench on the street she leaned her head back and closed her eyes. Cas hadn’t asked if the man minded her sitting next to him and she also knew that her badge was showing when her jacket fell open and showed her nine millimeter pistol as well. But she didn’t care.

“Nice night.” She said idly making conversation as she peaked one eye open to glance at the man. With the lighting they were sitting in she knew that her eyes would appear more of a honey brown but she stopped caring what people thought of her eyes a while ago, it was why she quit wearing contacts. “Though I think it’s better when you can see more stars.” She opened her eyes more fully and glanced up. Though there wasn’t much lighting on the street it was still enough in the entire city that kept a lot of the stars away. She nearly entered detective mode and asked the stranger what he was doing out tonight but Cas bit back the question not wanting to invade his personal shit even though she had been the one to sit down next to him. “Hope you don’t mind I sat down. Just feeling a little tired. Was going to head back to work but not sure that is a good idea.” The detective was giving information she didn’t need to but it stopped any unneeded questions from coming from the man. At least she hoped it did. She never knew how humans were going to act.