White Rabbit (Open)

Astrid knew she would either be wanted in a good way, or a bad way. She helped anyone who paid her, be they good or bad. She probably crossed some wrong people by doing so, but it was her own business. She provided many sevices, she healed, she helped kill, and she gave sex. All are very profitable, and she wasn't going to stop because a threat or two. Astrid knew she really couldn't stand a chance against most supers, but she had the advantage of calling to others for help as a favor. She was good at using things to her advantage, and that was what made her get as far in life as she has.

Astrid smiled about her little reflection of self, she was confident in all her actions and was not one to back down once she had it all figured out. She crossed her hot muggy apartment and pulled on some red short shorts and a white tank top. Her pale skin looked goulish against the raw white of the fabric, but she didn't really care. She brushed her silver hair and braided it quickly and efficiently. With a small nod of approval to herself in the mirror, she grabbed her keys and headed out the door.

Once outside, she stopped to look around her, the busy street full of noise and confusion. She took it all in and with a small smile she started to run along the sidewalk jogging to the nearby park. She wanted to be able to run without people getting in her way, they were always too slow around here. Astrid made it to the park more quickly than most, her more than average speed helping her along with that.

Astrid stopped for a brief moment to stretch for the real run, the pathway clear of bikers and joggers for the time being. She finished her stretching and without further thought, lunged into a full run, her breath even as her braid bounced against her back. She ran like this for a good mile, finally slowing down and pacing herself. Her thoughts were only on her running, but she was sure she could react well enough if surprised. She had the instincs of a rabbit, nervous and quick to flight. She was sure she would be able to sense danger were it present.

"We gonna party! Get on the dance floor!" shouted a high pitched voice.

It wasn't enough that there were signs out in this area specifically referring to loud noises despite this being a city but the police would have to present to shut up this hellbat of a woman. A combination of black hair and loose fitting clothing shook like a shaggy dog having a seizure. Then she would have to shake everything on her body that could possibly shake right down to the feet. It was eleven in the morning. No signs of exercising or enjoying the nice day was shown from this individual. Instead, there was only the feeling of wanting to dance.

"Disco disco! Whoop whoop! Disco disco!" sang the annoyance of a siren.

People were running around, past and even stopping to get out of her way. Even if night had already fallen it would be exceedingly difficult to miss this caution sign of a young lady. She wore a bright yellow shirt that was sleeveless and bore bold lettered words in red that said, "Die in a Grease FIRE!" Her pants were hot pink and were nothing more than capri pants. The footwear was pink and yellow high top shoes that had old cotton candy that had melted stuck to them. Those earphones were like ear muffs that covered, not only her ears, but a good portion of her face. She only had an I-Pod shuffle which was super small in comparison to the output that her earphones was giving her.

This woman blow a large bubble of gum from her mouth. The bubble popped. Gum covered her mouth and even portions of her nose. She didn't even bother to remove the sticky substance. She tried to sing even though gum was muffling her voice. Her forward movement of jumping and shaking stopped. This lady stood in place and waved her hair wildly.

"Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Who's bad? Uh-huh uh-huh! Who's bad? Hmm? I say who's bad?" she sang. The song she was listening to didn't even have that part in it. She just made that up. The one thing she did do that wasn't completely made up was her leaping onto a bench and gyrating. She humped the seating apparatus as if it were a person. Children were watching. Old women raised eyebrows. Men wanted to stare but most thought of her as a crazy woman.

Astrid paused mid run and swivled on a dime, her eyes scanning the scene around her. She heard the sounds of a woman, but what the woman was doing just boggled Astrid's mind. She blinked almost stupidly at the woman, her mouth agape in sheer shock. This woman, there was obviously something wrong with her. Astrid gave her head a shake, closing her mouth with a quick snap of her jaw. She watched the woman a moment more, another shake of her head causing her braid to bouce wildly.

Astrid swore and took a step forward as if to approach the woman, then hesitated. It went against her better judgment, she smelled danger. Yet, she was curious, she had never seen such outright insanity, she wanted to see what kind of conversation she could have with this woman. With another curse, and another step, Astrid slowly made her way over to stand before the woman, ready to bolt if need be. She had headphones in her ears, and she doubted that Miss Psychotic would hear her, so Astrid, merely blinked and waited. She figured the woman would notice her and confront her, all Astrid had to do was wait. She gave one small wave to attract some attention, ignoring the people around her who probably thought her just as crazy as the crazy chick.

"Move bitch! Get out the way! Get out the way bitch get out the way!" she sang. She turned while standing on the seat of the bench, holding her crotch and waving her hand from side to side. Her head nodded while she listened to the beat. She didn't even notice the person before her trying to get her attention. Reiko had the attention span of a gerbil. Instead of being nice and giving a greeting she decided to be rude and move past the person. She, instead, watched a mother pushing a stroller on the sidewalk. She started jogging in place. This was a misplaced action of dancing. She kept on trying to sing and rap at the same time which was a horrible combination for someone who could neither rap and especially not sing worth a damn.

She held her hands out towards the stroller and frowned with her eyes rolling. "Move bitch! Get out the way!" she shouted. The woman pushing the stroller was shocked at this behavior. But all the same the woman moved the stroller around Reiko and kept on going. Reiko folded her arms and nodded her head rapidly but then stopped suddenly. She took her headphones off. Once the sound projection devices were off music blared through them. It was shocking Reiko didn't go deaf with sounds that loud. She was hurting her own ears and acted out actions suggested in the song.

Her head turned to look at this woman who was trying to grab her attention. Reiko removed the gum on her face and lifted her shoe. She intentionally put the gum on the bottom of her shoe. She liked to leave gum trails because she thought that was good luck. "Mmmm..." she said. Reiko walked over to a nearby trashcan and found what she would consider to be a treasure chest of food. This food turned out to be a half eaten cheeseburger, fries that had flies covering them and a cup of melted ice that would serve as water.

Reiko munched and munched and munched some more while she ate at a pace that would freak out most people. She required a lot of stuff to eat to maintain the level of energy that she always seemed to have. She looked at the woman and did one of her special tricks. She crossed her eyes while they were in the sockets. This wasn't an amazing trick as many people could do it. Reiko just did it because she thought it was amusing, appealing and would make people like her.

She approached the woman, still cross eyed, and burped. Her eyes became uncrossed. Reiko scratched her bottom and burped once more while rubbing on her stomach. "Hewwo! Man! Nice day out if you can avoid all of the weirdos there are in this city," she said. Reiko actually had the audacity to refer to someone else as weird. She believed that she was normal and that it was everybody else who was bat shit crazy.

Astrid blinked at the woman as she was blatanly ignored and stood there, watching the actions of thise crazed woman. She couldn't help but laugh some at her antics, and she was going to in no way try and stop this woman. Astrid didn't see her as really doing anything wrong at all. She wasn't hurting anyone, well, other than their ears, but they would get over it.

Reiko finally stopped her tirade for a second and pulled her headphones out of her ears. Astrid wondered if she would be aknowledged, and continued to just observe, this was often a good tactic, especially since the watched tend to get curious.

Astrid smiled at the woman as she looked at her, grimacing slightly as she dug in the garbage and began to eat the racid food she found. She ate the meal at a surprising speed and Astrid just shook her head and waited for the woman to approach her. She gave a small laugh as Reiko crossed her eyes at Astrid, finally being approached by Reiko.

She shook her head and laughed once more and nodded. "I know what you mean, name's Astrid." She held out a hand to the woman, not sure how Reiko would react to that, but wanting to find out.

The way she was being looked at was a little concerning to Reiko. She thought this woman was somebody out to get her. Those fears were put aside once this woman spoke. Her mouth went to say something but then as the woman's hand was put for a handshake Reiko went back to her old self. She sniffed the hand and smiled. The smell was pretty good. She thought that this hand had to be one of two things; food or a hand. She opened her mouth to bite the hand off but she didn't do that once she realized that this hand had a pulse to it.

"OH! Your name is Astrid? That is so cool! You know, because I thought your name was something like booty mama or something like that. Possibly even Foxy Brown. I was considering that you were Jesus but you don't have wine nor do I feel holy at all," she said. Reiko's realization that this person was one hundred percent human didn't stop her from sniffing the woman's hand. By now, Astrid had to know that Reiko wasn't exactly well in the head. Therefore, actions done by her from this point on probably wouldn't come as much of a shock.

She got the urge to bite Astrid's fingernails and trim them down. Reiko liked to bite her own fingernails. So she didn't understand why everybody didn't do it. That was her in a nutshell. If she did it and nobody else did then they were weird. She did shake the hand but she did it in the ghetto way of doing it. She gave Astrid what was referred to as "dap." Basically, Reiko did a bunch of hand motions ranging from a regular handshake to giving Astrid a pat the back and even to giving this woman a hand shake indicative of a street gang's secret hand shake.

"Sister, I gots soul!" she declared. Reiko remember that she didn't identify herself. "Oh shiznits! Man, yo', like, check it and stuff, right? My name is Rei to the izzo. No, no, no. Seriously, it's Reiko. Oh, and I have a question for you..." she said. Reiko leaned into the woman's ear. "Would you mind at all if I eat your fingernails?" she asked.

Astrid didn't flinch as Reiko began to sniff her hand, she even opened her mouth as if to bite Astrid, but she remained still. She had figured this woman was not all there, so she wouldn't really hold it against her if she bit Astrid. Astris smiled as the woman did in fact decide not to bite her hand.

Reiko went off on another tangent about Astrid's name and Astrid merely laughed and shook her head at Reiko. "I'm sorry if I dissapointed you hun." She didn't try to stop Reiko from sniffing her hand or from performing all the silly handshakes that Reiko felt the need to do. Astrid nodded sincerly at Reiko. "I believe you have soul, and a lot of it. You have a nice name Reiko, it's a pleasure to meet you." She waited for Rekio to ask her question, and couldn't decide if she should laugh or not. She shook her head and smiled at Reiko as she leaned in to whisper in Astrid's ear.

"Now how would you propse you would do that?" She figured she couldn't say no, but she wouldn't say yes either. Reiko seemed unpredictable, and unpredictable was dangerous. "How about I take you somewhere to eat instead, I think you would like it a lot better than dining on my nails. What do you say?"

Reiko flinched. Going out to eat? Someone was asking her to go out to eat?! She nearly freaked out at the idea because she knew how this was going to end. Once a person took her somewhere to eat they'd never do it again. This woman either underestimated just how much Reiko could eat or just didn't know Reiko at all. This young lady was banned from four all-you-can-eat buffets due to concerns about the cost of feeding her. But she damn sure wasn't about to say no to a meal. Reiko didn't have money. All the dough she had came from her parents and they didn't give her any money because she'd just buy Barbie themed dildos again.

"SURE! But you paying 'cause I ain't gots no money sweety head. Now, if you pay for me I'll reward you by telling you how Mr. Hereberry got his name," she said. Reiko almost forgot that she carried a backpack everywhere she went. This wasn't actually a backpack though. It was more of a teddy bear that had been modified to fit personal belongings and had straps attached it to so it could be used as a backpack.

This wasn't a reward at all. Telling Astrid about how Hereberry got his name was a complete waste of time considering that, well, Astrid would just have to find out the hard way if she accepted the verbal prize.

Astrid had hit a nerve with Reiko, the girl flinching at the offer. Astrid looked at her almost worried for a second, but Reiko seemed to perk up quickly, so Astrid smiled. She saw potential in Reiko, even if she was crazy. Astrid had a good heart though, and couldn't quite justify her nicness being only making Reiko an ally.

Astrid nodded at Reiko. "I fully intend on paying for you. I would much rather see you eat decent food than things you find in the trash. Were would you like to eat? Once we get there and order, you and I can talk more about Mr. Hereberry." She spent a small amount of time examining the item and then motioned for Reiko to follow her.

Once out of the park, she motioned for a cab and opened the door for Reiko before getting in on the other side Reiko might spout some nonsense about her bear backpack thingie, but Astrid didn't really mind listening to Reiko's rambling. She felt kind of responsible for Reiko, she didn't want her silly antics getting herself hurt. If Astrid were around, it would never happen, and who knows, Reiko might end up helping her sometime in the future.

Not only did Reiko go to the vehicle to get in she ran and literally jumped in headfirst. She banged her head against the arm rest on the opposite side where she was supposed to get in. Reiko began rocking back and forth while laying on her side in the seat. Her head was laying in Astrid's lap. She felt comfortable there. Her mouth let out a yawn. She wanted to go to sleep right there with her head laying in this woman's lap. But then she realized that they couldn't go anywhere until the door was closed. So, she sat up and closed the door.

"So, check it. Mr. Hereberry was actually a real person at one point, right? This is actually a bear with a soul inside of it. The ghost haunts me and calls himself Here. So, I thought this was a horrible name for a ghost. So, I called him Berry instead. This made the ghost angry with me. So, we have some arguments and came to a resolution. We both agreed on Hereberry. I call him mister in front of the Hereberry out of respect because he's old as shit," she explained.

Reiko laid back down with her head resting in the woman's lap again. For some reason, she felt safe and like she didn't have to fight anybody just to feel this way. It wasn't flirting. It was just Reiko being herself. She instantly fell asleep and began slobbing out of the mouth. The speed in which she shut down wasn't normal. Just a couple of seconds later she sprung back up and sat up again. "You're so fucking comfortable! And I'm out again..." she pointed out. Reiko's head dropped back into Astrid's lap.

Astrid absently stroked the woman's hair as she yawned and put her head in Astrid's lap. She began the story of Mister Hereberry and she listened to the nonsense with a small smile on her face. "Well, you and I shall do our best not to offend Mister Hereberry, I certaintly don't want him angry with me."

After her story was finished, Reiko put her head in Astrid's lap again and fell alseep. Astrid ignored the drool and merely continued to stroke her hair. She had a breif panic attack as Reiko suddenly spoke and declared her comfort level to Astrid. She fell back asleep and Astrid just ordered the cab to a quiet out of the way resturant that many people wouldn't be at.

The pulled up and she payed the driver, though she was reluctant to wake Reiko. She shook her gently and spoke softly in her ear. "Time to wake up, unless you aren't hungry" She hoped, Reiko would be more hungry than upset at being woken.

Reiko was prone to having some really strange dreams. When she was awake she was strange. Therefore, when asleep, her mind wouldn't stop working and she'd end up having dreams that are far more weird than what she could ever show.

The scene started with an elderly lady being mugged in front of a television store. She was standing there in awe and amazement while her purse was being snatched away. She wasn't amazed at the fact she was being robbed. No, instead, she was amazed at what she was seeing on television in front of window in the store. Not a care was given to all of her money now being carted away by a running purse snatcher. Twelve men were robbing a bank. That hasn't happened in a while. The number of men pulling this off was amazing itself.

"This is channel five news with our latest report. Whitley police officials have informed channel five that there is a bank robbery in progress at the Bank of America in downtown Whitley. Our on the screen reporter, Jeff Motley, is at the scene. Take it away Jeff."

As if the eyes of god himself or herself were watching the scene snapped to the Bank of America in question. Cop cars, ambulances, the fire department and even some random school children dressed up like Ghost Busters were standing around doing nothing. The cops were eating donuts, the firemen were having sexual intercourse in the back of their trucks with random prostitutes they had just paid and the paramedics were too busy updating their facebook statuses to assist in the emergency. This was a royal fuck job if one could ever be viewed. Three hostages were already killed in this robbery, two more were wounded and nobody could come up with a way inside of the bank because the men doing this were trained ex-special forces material.

Walking up to the scene came a man dressed in all purple. He wore a yellow cape and a black mask. The words, "The Masked Spanker" were on his chest in bright yellow. Another man came from behind this hideously dressed super hero who was dressed in a cowboy get up and a black mask. Yet another one of these goof balls appeared except out of the manhole covering next to his two super hero counterparts. This whack job was decked out in a costume that could only be accurately described as a worm costume. For the last trick of embarrassment the last man appeared with an I-Phone and a Japanese school child dress up costume.

One of the policemen looked up at the rather ridiculous looking super hero clan.

"The fuck you bozos supposed to be? The YMCA? Gay club's down the street," said the officer before going back to the jelly filled, rich and creamy goodness of a Krispy Kreme donut.

The four men looked at one another and all of them sighed. They were so used to that kind of response to their presence. It wasn't as if anyone heard of them or something. That didn't mean they couldn't go to work. The Masked Spanker stepped forward and assumed an actiony type of post with his arms extended above his head, a leg lifted in the classic crane style Kung Fu fighting position and his butt extended out in the back so that the spandex covering his butt cheeks could be readily viewed by the public yet the public behind him were school children who all threw up into their lunch boxes upon seeing this horrific sight. The other three men lifted their legs as well and all three of them farted.

In unison, they shouted, "Super Duper and MORRRRRE Super Team Non-Japanese, Correction, One Token and Random Japanese Dude Who Doesn't Care and Does This Just for Fame and Vagina Points Team ALPHA! Huzzah!"

Everybody watching, even some of the gay men who might have once liked these guys, laughed. The team of four rushed into the bank without any kind of guns or back up and entered to quickly take cover behind trash cans because they were instantly fired upon by AK-47 rifles. In the bank there were over twenty hostages who were all blind folded so none of them could see a damn thing.

"We need a plan. We must over react immediately!" shouted Masked Spanker.

The Japanese man saw an imaginary light bulb appear over his head. Of course, that's nothing like the little green space alien that only he can see that appears randomly while he was stalking women. He said he isn't crazy. That was his story and he'll be sticking to it. "Hey! Robbers! I dare ya to say 'OH NO!' three times! Come on! Don't be pussy washers! Be braaaaaave! Like 50 Cent when he got shot all those times! What's wrong with you people?" shouted the Japanese man.

A black man who was blind folded and a hostage stood up and said, "What do you mean 'you people'?"

Randomly, a cheap and generic knock off of said 50 Cent rapper came out of the darkness and into the light. He had a rolled up joint of weed in his mouth and puffed on it with a bottle of Colt 45 in his hand and a wad of fake dollar bills hanging out of his back pocket. His name was 24 Cents and Half a Penny.

He started...rapping?

"Yeaaaah! Well okay! What?! I said...YEAAAAAH! WELL OKAY! WHAT?! We be up in this bank and we gonna get robbed. By some men who be broke and ain't got no jobs. Wait...they just Americans in a recession. Now let me kick a dope choke rhyme and teach ya a lesson! Woke up this morning with no job. I'm a broke rapper. Yeah, ya'll just sob. I got the leash, I got the kibbles and kits. Strapped it up to my homie 'cause he is the shit. Yeeeeeeah! Walkin' my dog. I be walkin' my dog. I'm walkin' my dog. Fo' shizzle! Be walkin' my dog. I be walkin' said dog. I be walkin' that dog. It was like a yo-yo trick. WALKIN' MY DOG! He ain't a he so she is my bitch! Shiiiit! I watched her takin' a piss. It's a sick fetish so I was rubbin' my----"

If Jesus was available he'd probably thank the robber that shot this guy in the crotch at close range with a pump action shotgun. Next to the now dead rapper sat a woman dressed in a full body suit that was yellow and indicative of Bruce Lee's yellow jumpsuit costume that he made famous. It was Reiko in her own dream. One of the robbers noticed that this woman had ear rings in her ears that were gold. Those were probably expensive. So, the robber removed an ear ring.

Big mistake.

Inside this woman's head there were voices present. She argued with herself. Nobody else was talking to her. People wondered just who the hell she was fussing with.

"Panteneeeee is the best!"

"NO IT IS NOT! Fructose is the best!"

"Panteneeeeeee..."

"FRUCTOSE! YOU DIE! I'mma gonna beat yo' bitch ass like you stole my stimulus check! I'mma beat your face in with the penis of destruction, justice and a whole lotta ass whoopin'! I'mma dig in yo' bitch ass with a SHOVEL! GRRRRRWAAARRRR!"

"The hell's going on?" asked the Masked Spanker to his team.

"I dunno..." said Japanese man as he made it to the fourth level on the game he was playing on his phone.

The robbers shouted in unison. "OH NO!" That was more than three times. Bursting through the front door came a man who was actually like the boy in the bubble. He had Kool-Aid mixed in the bubble. He was Kool-Aid Man, ghetto action hero.

"ALRIGHT! Time's up! Lets do this! LEROY JENKINSSSSSS!" shouted Kool-Aid.

As the red and delicious tasting hero ran forward the woman who just had her ear ring stolen stood up, grabbed a cash register with strength that simply wasn't human and crashed it into the charging super hero.

Chaos came afterwards as the woman stood up and materialized what appeared to be a lego man. The sounds that came out of that bank were nothing short of horrible and desperate.

Twenty minutes later...

The heroes were outside holding their hands up in victory while munching down on the goodness that was the ice cream bars. One of the cops approached them with a smile.

"Thanks Super Duper team! You saved the day. So, uh, where's the robbers and hostages? I'm interested in interviewing all of them. This is going to be stuff of legend! You guys gonna be famous. Most times you come around here with borderline homosexual lines and stupid actions that never help but you guys actually came through or you wouldn't be out here with ice cream bars...soooo...uh, where are all the people?" inquired the officer.

The teammates looked at and shrugged shoulders at one another. Masked Spanker responded with, "Dunno what the hell you're talking about. We kinda left. They gave up Klondike bars for god sakes. Come on man. You're busting my balls here. And those balls are nice, velvety to the touch and smell of roses and grape juice. Would you bust balls of that description? No, you would not."

With a lowered head all the police officer could respond with was, "Epic...fail...with a vengeance..."

Inside the bank the robbers were being massacred. One of them was drowned to death in a fish tank, another beaten to death with a bag of nickels taken from the now dead rapper, and yet another man was dead, not from the golden woman's violence and brutality, but because he randomly died from lung cancer. It was at that point in the realization that one of the hostages took off a blind fold and help up a cardboard sign that read, "Truth."

Out from the roof one of the robbers had the golden woman's foot up his butt hole whilst she used his body like a peg leg and the other robber was dangling from the roof while having the woman's bra wrapped around his neck like a noose.

"SAY IT! I said say it damnit!"

The robbers didn't know what the woman wanted them to say at first. But then they remembered. It was a conversation they had while the super heroes were busy screwing off outside. They said, both of them together, "Pantene is the best!"

"That's what I thought! NOW DIE!"

The second the word die came out of her dream version of herself Reiko awakened to Astrid waking her up. She smiled. If there was one person she didn't mind seeing when she woke up it was definitely this person. "Yeah, I am kinda hungry..." she said, trying to shrug off the weird dream. She got out of the cab and stood at the front entrance of the restaurant.

Astrid returned her smile as Reiko woke and looked at her. She touched Reikos cheek softly and smiled at her new charge. It would be a challenge to take care of Reiko, but Astrid was up to the task, and she wouldn't give up on her even if she was crazy. "Good, because I'm starving."

Reiko seemed sort of out of it. Astrid frowned slightly as she watched her get out of the cab. She followed a moment after and stood beside Reiko at the entrance of the resturant. She put a hand on her shoulder and squeezed lightly. "Are you okay lovely?" Her forehead was creased with concern as she steered Reiko into the resturant.

She sat her down at a booth and sat across from her waiting to hear Reiko's thoughts. She usually had a lot to say and it was weirding Astrid out that she was so quiet. She placed a menu in front of Reiko. "Feel free to have whatever you like. I promise you I'm not strapped for money." She gave a small laugh and continued to look at Reiko with worry.

"FOOD!" she shouted. Reiko didn't even allow the two of them to get inside so that the hostess could seat the party of two. She ran past the hostess and instantly went to the food. The woman at the front counter shouted for the crazed girl to stop but she didn't. The shouting was ignored. The food was assaulted with an intent to kill. Salivation was in Reiko's mouth. This was just too irresistible. This wasn't even a buffet style restaurant. That means that Reiko ran into the kitchen and began eating the food that was originally intended for other customers.

Oh, Astrid wasn't strapped for money now but perhaps her words will change once she witnessed the human garbage disposal device known as Reiko Li. The small girl began devouring food at a break neck pace. Steak, chicken, rice, mashed potatoes, collard greens, bacon, eggs, waffles, hash browns, toast, french toast, pancakes, syrup, cheeseburgers, fries, hotdogs, salad, frog legs and chicken tenders were just the tip of the ice berg of what Reiko managed to eat in only minutes.

The sound of chefs being tossed around like paper airplanes illuminated the entire kitchen in sound. Reiko was fighting them and managing to eat food at the same time. There was no doubt that she'd be thrown out of the restaurant and Astrid along with her for bringing her along. Reiko, in all actuality, was already banned from this restaurant for pulling a stunt like this the last time she was here which explained why she didn't wait to get to work eating.

She came out of the back with a huffing and puffing to symbolize her being out of breath. The chefs came out from behind her with broken glasses, black eyes and torn uniforms.

Astrid looked with shock and some amusement as Rekio bolted for the kitchens. She didn't go in to try and stop her as the sound of destruction met her ears. The staff and customers were giving her dirty looks, but Astrid only smile prettily at them. She and Reiko had just as much right to be there as anybody. She hummed softly and awaited the return of her charge, which was certainly coming.

Reiko soon emerged from the kitchens, seemingly out of breath and Astrid approached her. "Are you still hungry dear?" The was a grumble of anger around her but Astrid ignored it and healed each of the staff members that were hurt by Reiko with just a look. "I will compensate you for any damages and money loss. You go fix your kitchen, and my friend and I will order what we want." She smiled at Reiko. "You can have as much as you want, like I said, money is no issue." She then looked pointedly at the staff and they bustled to do as told. "Order away lovely."