River of Life [1x1 with ryu] (IC)

[Alice]

Xiao smiled. "It doesn't say anything about where we should expect them, how many people are with them, or anything like that?" She sat down with her feet to her sides and hands in her lap. "There has to be something. I just looked at the pictures."

[Ryu]

Will looked through them again and then gave a nod. "Yeah. That isn't in here..." he replied, scratching his head. "How do we find them without the locations?"

[Alice]

"So...The Light will give me the information but not you? I'm starting to think it really IS just for matchmaking. Well, I know the locations. You new here, so if I said the names, you wouldn't be able to find them anyway. I'll just take us there. Study the first one in the stack...oh...it's," she flipped through the folders, "this guy. Study all the information on him tonight. we'll go after him tomorrow. I'm going to go to sleep now, though." She stood up and sat in her bed, her lower back against her pillows, said a little prayer, and went to slid down to lie on her pillow before continuing the prayer.

[Ryu]

Will gave a small nod before getting to work on the information for the first one. He'd go over it a few times before finally falling asleep, staying where he was on the floor.

[Alice]

A few hours later, Xiao sat up and stretched. She said her morning prayer and walked to the closet to change. When she was in her normal clothes, she picked up her rifle and nudged Will with it. "I hope you know what you're doing. If you're all groggy and can't think fast out there and get shot, it's not my fault. It takes time for it to hit once I fire. They might kill you as they'redying. Just so you know. Shouldn't happen, though." She shrugged and smiled. "We've got such a great day ahead of us."

[Ryu]

"Oh, definately..." Will muttered, sitting up. He stretched lightly and got to his feet. "Lead the way, I suppose."

[Alice]

Xiao saluted him and jumped out the open window, landing and rolling a few stories down on a nearby building. She stood and waited for Will to follow, moving out of the way for him to land safely and holding a salute. Let's see...maybe he won't follow. If he doesn't do it right, he could get hurt, maybe die. If he does, I'll have to show him a little more respect. She smiled. I never thought I'd say I's show him respect. Something must be wrong with me.

[Ryu]

Will raised an eyebrow, but didn't follow at first. He didn't want to risk himself with something so dangerous. So he could just take the stairs...

Ah, to hell with it. He jumped out the window after her, rolling just as she had when he hit the ground. As he came up to his feet, he rubbed his shoulder lightly, but grinned a bit. "So, now I'm curious. Where'd you learn to do this sort of stuff? Not normal civilian stunts..."

[Alice]

Xiao knew she should have expected this, but she didn't really want to answer the question. She tried to think of a good answer, but decided the truth would be best. "I studied pre-End books about psychology, learned a lot about it, then was given access to their secret information stores...they have them in this box thing underground. They called it a...computer? Something like that. They must have seen something in me. I don't know why they decided to teach me to do this...maybe because they found me when I was hunting. They must have thought someone with a shot as good as mine would be a great assassin. But it was probably just because I ran really fast. A lot of them are old with jelly-legs. Now let's go."

She started running again and jumped from building to building, past the rooftop marksmen, sometimes over them if they were lower. She passed the marketplace a few buildings and stopped. "He should be over there. That building right there." She pointed to a nearby building on the other side of the street, "Do you want to lure him out or kill him inside? I'm pretty good with silent kills; I could stun him, you can kill him. Or...I can do both and you distract him. How do you want to do it?"

[Ryu]

Will followed quickly, keeping up with her easily enough. As he reached her, he shrugged. "Mind if I try to take him out myself?" he asked, taking out his desert eagle and attaching a silencer over it. "I want to prove that I'm somewhat useful at least."