Sokka the 49th - [Action/Written]

[markofthewise]

[It was another day at the Avatar house. Well, minus the lack of Katara. Which meant a quiet breakfast. Too quiet. Suki and Zuko were quiet on their own. But Aang? That wasn't like him. So after cleaning up, he decides to go check on the weird bald monk. Only when he opens up Aang's room... it's an all too familiar sight. It's been emptied out completely. All that's left is the bed, furniture... and Roku's air glider. Again. They sent Aang back again. Barely even two months and he was already gone. It wasn't enough they had to take Katara, but now this...

He lingers for a few seconds, then grabs the staff and storms out of the house. That is, unless, Zuko or Suki happen to stop him first. Either way, he'll end up in the forest later. He and Momo are trying to find Appa, who they can't find either. What they do find, however, is the unusual carcass of a deer. It doesn't take long for Sokka to note that the wounds that killed it don't match any animal in his world or this one. With Momo acting skittish, he gives themselves some distance before opening his journal and writing a message.]

What kind of predator kills its prey with punctures to the skull?

((ooc: Sokka can be found leaving his house or in the woods at any point, the latter scenario will be with Momo on hand. Sokka is still dressed up like this. No wig, but his hair is down, since it refuses to stay in a hairtie.))

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Re: [Action]

[consultmybooks]

[Nope. There's nothing there that he expected to find in the way of damage. Something just punctured the skull and killed the deer. He looks anyway, bothered far less by the blood and more by the circumstances, silent for several minutes, then...]

Well, this is very strange.

[markofthewise]

[That must mean he's done. Sokka comes in closer to take a look.]

Yeah? What did you find?

[consultmybooks]

Absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Apart from the puncture marks to the skull, of course. The brain is still intact, the spinal fluids all there, it doesn't even look as though whatever killed it was especially interested in eating it.

Did anyone give you any leads over the journals?

[markofthewise]

Not much. Someone said they spotted other dead animals, but they were killed differently than this one.

[consultmybooks]

Other dead animals? Different dead animals?

...I don't know anything that could have done this, at least. [Indicating the deer] This is...unsettling.

[markofthewise]

Yeah. But they were killed differently, not like this one.

[consultmybooks]

Just killed? Not eaten, or anything like that?

Very odd.

[markofthewise]

Just... dead. [Sokka shakes his head.] I don't know.

[consultmybooks]

Under these circumstances? Neither do I. [He sighs heavily] I hate that.

Rupert Giles, by the way. Nice to meet you, even if it is under unfortunate circumstances.

[markofthewise]

[Give him a second. Oh yeah...]

I'm Sokka. [A beat.] Buffy probably mentioned me to you.

[consultmybooks]

Yes, as a matter of fact, she did.

[markofthewise]

So I take it the tales of my being actually male are not exaggerated.

[consultmybooks]

I wouldn't know.

The Slayer line has been restricted to females for the last several hundred years, however.

[markofthewise]

I'd probably be a more noteworthy exception if I was from your world.

[consultmybooks]

Do Slayers actually exist in your world?

[markofthewise]

We tend to use it as a more generic term. Or not use it at all at all. When we kill something, we just call it killing. Unless it's food, then it's hunting.

[consultmybooks]

Do vampires exist in your world?

[markofthewise]

Not that I know of, no.

[consultmybooks]

Then Vampire Slayers probably don't, either.

[markofthewise]

That would seem to be the case, yeah.

[consultmybooks]

The best reasoning we could come up with is that the Organization somehow managed to "steal" Buffy's Slayer essence and replicate it during one of the last times she was kidnapped.

[markofthewise]

That's what I figured. Given everything else they've done? I figure this is relatively on the 'mild' side.

[consultmybooks]

How long have you had this?

[markofthewise]

Since we came back from that facility.

[consultmybooks]

The infiltration mission, you mean?

...you were one of the ones who were kidnapped?