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[The video clicks on with some fumbles, some readjustment as Hella realizes what she looks like in the playback on the device and just sort of. Stares at her apparent reflection. It's really weird, but she's been laying low and trying to figure out this thing for almost a month now so she thinks she's sort of got it.

She certainly looks out of place, in full dark scalemail armor and with scars on her face and a very serious expression. She doesn't shift from full serious mode when she finally begins to talk, but she sounds more awkward than stern.]

Hey. I'm Hella. I've been quiet, I guess. But I'm new here, relatively speaking.

[She pulls a lock of red hair behind her ears, her bangs the only hair outside of her usual bun today.]

I noticed you all have a monster problem. Apparently it happens once every month? Anyway, we should be coming upon a month of my being here soon, and I'm... willing to offer my services.

[She holds up a sword, the hilt of it embellished with red jewels, the center one being the largest and bleeding into a white diamond-like color in the center. If anyone has any ability to sense dead things or magic, this thing is giving off a severe ghostlike energy.

Because of all the powerful dead people and gods and stars living in it.]

I'm really good at killing things. I also live near the colosseum. I can kill anything that comes through that Door.

[Said with full confidence.]

If you're worried about someone arriving and want to check it out but don't do well in dangerous situations, I'll guard you. For trade, maybe. Or favors.

[If anything, Adaire's taught her the value of owed favors. Though Hella still doesn't have the patience to wait on collecting.]

I'll hear any offers now. Thank you.

[She fumbles with the phone a bit more, and finally shuts it off.]

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Didn't say you did. But I ain't gonna say it was wrong if you did.

[She's kind of loose on the morals of stealing.]

Real wolves? How'd you kill 'em without a sword in the first place?

[Hella shrugs. She doesn't steal things, but she knows people who do.]

This isn't my first sword. It's more valuable than what I had, but... We used other swords and bows and arrows.

Huh. So you got a whole army’s worth of weapons then. Or had, I guess. That’s cool. Wild to think ‘bout all those swords instead of people pullin’ guns.

Just wolves you were usin’ all that metal on?

Not an army's worth -- it was enough for two people. What's a gun?

[Congratulations, Girl, you're the first to bring up guns around earshot of Hella.]

At the time. I hunted a lot with my dad. Now I use my weapon on people sometimes, too.

You said bows and swords. Like there was more than one. That sounds totally enough for a small army. [She’s used to an entire world’s population being able to fit into one city. Her definition of small is a little limited.]

You know, guns. [What an amazing explanation.] Those lil’ things people use to shoot with? Some people talk ‘bout them usin’ bullets but I know them usin’ lasers. It’s all like, pop zzzt?

[She proceeds to make terrible gun and laser noises.]

Fightin’ bad guys?

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There were two of each.

[So like, plural, but not an army's worth.]

I've never heard of bullets or lasers. People shoot with bows, or crossbows, or cannons.

[She has no reference for these noises the girl is making.]

Yeah. Bad guys. Like evil queens of death.

[She takes on a menacing voice when she gives the example, and sure enough, she can hear Adelaide in her head laughing.]

Still more weapons than most the groups had that I knew.

Really? Geez, are you from, like, ancient times or something? I thought the folks still talkin' 'bout bullets were old. [Wait, that's probably rude.] I mean, I just ain't met someone yet that didn't know 'bout guns.

[It's surprising, with all the people she's met lately.]

How does someone think they got the right to rule death?

[Hella sighs. She's getting sassed by a high-tech little girl. And she doesn't even know how to sass back, because she totally is from ancient times by comparison to this city. She'd never even used a toilet this fancy before.]

So what if I haven't heard of guns? I thought it was common knowledge people come from all kinds of worlds.

[The comment on Adelaide though makes Hella strain her ears (even though that's not how it works) for a response from Adelaide herself, but the disembodied voice of the Queen of Pearls is decidedly silent.]

...Yeah. Those were my thoughts exactly. That's how I earned the title Queenkiller in my homeland.

[Girl, on the other hand, is entirely enjoying this. She hasn't had the chance to meet man warrior women. It's like someone stepped out of stories Party would tell her as a child.]

It is. But most of the ones I've talked to have worlds with guns.

[Which could be because Girl's so anti-social...]

That's not fair. Some people don't got one name and you're out there with two badass names?

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