The roof, Wednesday evening

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia lay on the edge of the roof on a towel with one of the books from the library open in front of her. She knew from her conversation with Alfred that she wasn't likely to find any details about Walter's mission itself in the books, but at least she could get an idea of the area he was getting into. And maybe a better idea of where he came from, in general.

The ideas she was getting weren't pretty. But then, she'd learned early on that a lot of things in life weren't.

Distractions would, of course, be entirely welcome.

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[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras poked her head out onto the roof.

"Evening."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia looked up from her book only briefly. "Hi, Seras. How are you?"

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras smiled and slid down next to her.

"Bit tired," she admitted, "I love Pup, but it's a task and a half to keep him from impaling squirrels and ducks and other woodland creatures out of mischief. Thank goodness he's napping at the moment."

She looked over at the other girl.

"How're you?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Pup can be a handful and a half, huh." Nadia smiled slightly, marking her page and closing the book. "I'm alright."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

There was a coughing noise as someone who was still not alright ascended the stairs.

"Oh, am I interrupting?" Pip asked.

[nadiathesaint]

"Hi Pip. No, you're not." Nadia dug into her backpack and pulled out a thermos. "This is for you. Sorry I didn't get a chance to bring any for you yesterday. How are you feeling?"

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras tilted her head as she caught the book's title.

"You'll make yourself crazy, reading those," she said, gesturing towards it.

Blunt, but Seras wasn't exactly a trained diplomat. In her mind, it left the subject open for either discussion or a change.

She waved hello to Pip.

"How're you feeling?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Better," he answered. "At least, good enough to walk around some places. Still not sure if I'm up to going to class tomorrow, though." He nodded to Seras as he took the thermos from Nadia with a thanks. "How are you feeling? I heard you got knocked around over the weekend."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia leaned her head on her arms and looked back and forth between Pip and Seras, content for the moment to have the topic not be on her reading.

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras noted Nadia's silence before she answered Pip.

"Yeah. The tentacle beast...demon thing."

She shook her head.

"Serve me right for trying to fight a monster while I was a boy. Never would've happend if I'd been a girl."

She nodded sagely.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi flounced up to the roof.

she used the stairs and everything.

"Hi people!"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia waved. "Hey, Pippi. Sorry I didn't make it to the junkyard, today."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally wandered up, jumpsuited and toolbelted. She waved to Nadia. "Hello," she said.

[nadiathesaint]

"Hey. Here to work on the viper?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Stripping the thing down," Cally said. "Gotta find where exactly it went wrong."

[nadiathesaint]

"Do you want help?" It'd probably be more interesting than sitting here reading about stuff she couldn't do anything about.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"I could use an extra pair of hands, sure," Cally said. "I'll try to keep you away from anything messy."

[nadiathesaint]

"I don't mind messy. As long as it can be washed off later." Nadia put her book into her backpack and came over. "Just tell me what to do, I'm at your service."

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Well then," Cally said, pulling out a wrench from her toolbelt. "It'd probably be best to start with the back engine. So we're going to need to take out the failsafes to start stripping out the fuel lines."

[nadiathesaint]

"Fail safes. Fuel lines. Gotcha." Yeah, Nadia had no idea what she was talking about. But taking things apart sounded like fun.

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

Cally gestured to the underside of the Viper. "We're going to have to slide underneath it, so..." She actually had a couple of those mechanicky roller board things handy. "Get as comfortable as you can."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia lay down and fidgeted about a bit until she was generally comfortable. She gave an experimental kick or two and glided back and forth.

This thing was officially cool. "I have my leatherman, but I don't have any other tools. Do you have any extras?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Feel free to grab whatever you need from my belt," Cally said. "Ask and you shall recieve." She rolled under and pointed to a panel. "This is the first thing we have to get off."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Are you going to paint the underside now?"

[sogothcally.livejournal.com]

"Sadly, no," Cally said. "Something broke, and it won't run again. Not that it's even had a test flight yet, but yeah. It's now just a brightly colored stature, at the moment."