Calling a prime to deal with a wandering monster is appropriate enough. She killed a bear that was menacing people, once.
The snake thing is just faster than she expects and before she's resolved to kill it it's on her.
Calling a prime to deal with a wandering monster is appropriate enough. She killed a bear that was menacing people, once.
The snake thing is just faster than she expects and before she's resolved to kill it it's on her.
He points at the vehicle that came before him (the two fully-armored people are there, in positions that suggest they are ready to attack if they need to) then makes the shrinking gesture again while pointing at the back of it, where there are two open doors showing an empty interior that is very much not large enough to contain a five-foot-radius sphere.
She'd wind up near the armored people. Ugh. She can't communicate - "It's not like the radius is for my benefit -"
He tilts his head then presses a button on his wrist, which repeats her voice back to her: "It's not like the radius is for my benefit—" He says some more things, pointing at himself, his head (which he then shakes), his arm, and then at a building behind him in the distance with what looks like a spherical forcefield. He then presses another button on his wrist and repeats her sentence, and then a sentence in his language.
"...yeah that didn't help communicate anything. I assume I didn't manage to communicate anything either. Perhaps I could travel alone in the vehicle if you're so keen on getting me into it -" She motions shooing the people there away.
He pauses, then says something to the two people, and they dutifully leave the vicinity of the vehicle.
If the man is confused about why she's so far back, he doesn't show it. He asks something and gestures for her to walk out, then gets out of the way.
They're in an underground space where there are several vehicles. The guards are all suitably far away, and the man in blue starts leading the way to a door.
Door opens to a wide corridor that ends in a glass door. The man leads the way again, and the glass door opens to admit him into a glass-walled cylindrical room. It's large enough to accommodate both of them with Kiri's safety radius, but just barely, and it doesn't seem to have—anything else in it.
The man starts gesturing as if to catch her but then aborts it to stay far enough away.
The dark shaft where the glass tube through which this room is rising is inserted gives way to a much more open area. It has chairs and people and glass screens with moving pictures and a full quarter of the area is dedicated to something that's probably a store of some kind, selling all sorts of colorful thematic stuff like mugs, detailed-looking dolls, life-sized pictures of people in costumes, various contraptions that are probably toys given the way children are handling them...
The moving room continues to move and eventually she can't see that room anymore and it gives way to a corridor. The door opens again, and the man strides out into it.